GEOLOGY – I (MI305)-Mining Engineering (III-Semester) | RGPV

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• Syllabus

• Syllabus - GEOLOGY – I (MI305)

• Importance of Geology in Mining

• Mineralogy Minerals
• Classification of minerals
• Crystallography

• Economic Geology

• Ores and gangue
• Uses of important metallic and non-metallic minerals
• Atomic mineral resources of India

• Structural Geology

• Stratified rocks and their structures
• Attitude of strata
• Outcrop and incrop
• Folds
• Faults
• Joints

• Prospecting and Exploration

• Geological guides for prospecting of mineral deposits
• Introduction to different methods of prospecting for mineral deposits
• Exploratory drilling methods
• Trenching and pitting
• Sampling grids
• Drill hole logging
• Deviation of drill holes and drill hole surveying
• Directional drilling
• Reserve Estimation