Course Details

Mining and Processing of Raw Materials (M)

Academic Year 2025/26

BJB003 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Černý, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Technology of Building Materials and Components

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289796

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Utilization of mineral raw materials in the building industry, protection of the environment.
  • 2. Physical and mechanical properties of rocks, tests of aggregates, utility properties of rocks and effectiveness of exploitation.
  • 3. Project of preparation, development and exploitation in the quarry, protected area.
  • 4. Exploitation space, utilization of rocks, technology of raw materials mining.
  • 5. Raw material resources, striping, mining methods for rocks.
  • 6. Mass blasts, blast design, facilities for blasting work.
  • 7. Muck transport, vehicle fleet, technology of treatment.
  • 8. Technological treatment of raw material, disintegration, principles of machinery for treatment.
  • 9. Grinding, grinding curve, effectiveness of the grinding process.
  • 10. Technological parameters of grinding plants, circulation number, effectiveness of grinding.
  • 11. Special preparation procedures, micro-grinding, separation.
  • 12. Classification, raw material separation, grist parameters, recycling of building waste, grounding, treatment, sieving. Recultivaton after excavation. Environmental impact, primary material sources.

Exercise

13 weeks, 1 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction seminar.
  • 2. The design and dimensions of waste materials, muck.
  • 3. The design and sizing of internal transport.
  • 4. Explosive processes of explosives.
  • 5. The dimensions of the chamber blasting.
  • 6.–7. The dimensions of the aperture blasting.
  • 8. Video examples of rock blasting works for the extraction of raw materials construction and demolition.
  • 9. Excursion to the quarry.
  • 10. Examples of reclamation after open-pit mining.
  • 11. Credit test.
  • 12. Checking the protocols, granting the credit.