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DESCRIPTION
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SEMINARS
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MIME 673. Mining Engineering Seminar.
Credits: 6 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for or in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
For students registered in the Graduate Diploma or Master's programs in Mining.
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MIME 776. Ph.D. Research Seminar.
Credits: 6 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for or in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Submission of a seminar paper and presentation of the research topic in the seminar paper.
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PhD THESIS PROPOSAL
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MIME 702. Ph.D. Preliminary
Examination
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Credits: 0 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for or in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Presentation of the Ph.D. thesis proposal by the doctoral student and oral examination to evaluate the student's breadth of knowledge regarding the proposed research.
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COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION
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MIME 704. Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination in Mining Engineering
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Credits: 0 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for or in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Invited-level seminar presentation to examination committee. The student will highlight the scientific background involved in the field, explain the challenges
and will provide explanations of possible solutions generated from the research work.
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LITERATURE REVIEW
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MIME 661. Literature Review on Selected Research Topics.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026 View offerings for or or in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Literature review concerning specific research topics.
- (9-0-0)
- Prerequisite: Permission of supervisor
- Restriction: Open only to graduate students in thesis programs in Mining or Materials Engineering.
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Course Outline MIME 661
 courseappraisalevaluationform661-2015.pdf
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LECTURES
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MIME 513. Mine Planning Optimization Under Uncertainty.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Strategic mine planning and optimization under uncertain demand and supply. Modern optimization techniques in mine design and production scheduling. Metal supply and orebody modelling. Market forecasting and planning with flexibility. Valuing information. Stochastic mine optimization and applications in open pit and underground metal mines.
- 3-3-3
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MIME 413.
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MIME 520. Stability of Rock Slopes.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Properties of structural discontinuities. Influence of geological structures on slope stability. Kinematic analysis. Limit equilibrium methods. Empirical methods. Numerical modelling. Slope stabilization and monitoring. Case studies.
- (3-0-6)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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MIME 522. Mineral Reserve Assessment Techniques.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Techniques in mineral reserve assessment.
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisites: COMP 208 or equivalent, MIME 209 or equivalent
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MIME 525. Stochastic Orebody Modelling.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Faculty of Engineering) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Uncertainty in modelling orebodies. Conventional modelling methods. Ore reserve estimation and risk. Geostatistical basics. Sequential simulation methods. Fast and efficient simulation of large orebodies. Simulation of multi-element deposits. Simulation of geology. Geometallurgical modelling. Integration and effects on mine planning and financial evaluation. Drilling optimization; reserve classification; grade control. Practical applications.
- (3-3-3)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Not open to students who have taken MIME 425.
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MIME 620. Rock Mechanics 1.
Credits: 4 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
A study of the effects of rock properties and ground stresses on problems in mine design.
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MIME 621. Rock Mechanics 2.
Credits: 4 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Fall 2025 View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
The application of the principles of strength of materials to the analysis of problems in ground control.
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MIME 626. Applied Geostatistics.
Credits: 3 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Review of applied geostatistics.
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MIME 631. Advanced Stochastic Optimization in Mine Planning.
Credits: 4 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Graduate Studies)
This course is not offered this catalogue year.
Description
Uncertainty and risk in mine design and production scheduling. Conventional mine optimization methods and flaws. Mine planning and sustainable mining under uncertainty. Combinatorial optimization and algorithmic methods in mine production scheduling. Real options and decision making in mine planning. Mine waste deferment methods. Global and local optimization of mining processes.
- (3-3-6)
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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MIME 635. Finite Element Method - Rock Mechanics.
Credits: 4 Offered by: Mining & Materials Engineering (Graduate Studies) Terms offered: Winter 2026 View offerings for in Visual Schedule Builder.
Description
Overview of numerical methods; elasticity relations; element assembly process; formulative procedures; planar elements; convergence and accuracy; isoparametric formulation; rock joint and rock support elements; dynamic analysis; material and geometric nonlinearities. XFEM. Applications in mining and geotechnical engineering.
- Prerequisites: MIME 521 and/or permission of instructor
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