WELCOME TO CLASS
Welcome to class -- and thanks for signing up for this online course. For many of you, this may be your first online (on the Internet) course, so we'll get acquainted with a few simple computer operations, and poke around a little to see how things will work. If you are not a computer whiz, don't worry -- you won't need to be. You are welcome to contact the instructor at any time.
A) WHY ON LINE?
The advantages of the online format are numerous. One is the "learn anywhere, anytime" theory. You can continue your studies from Hawaii while on vacation or working on the North Slope. You can continue your studies. The online format also offers and encourages online communications with classmates and staff members. Online courses open new opportunities for education/training to make career changes that may not be available locally . You can choose to print the course if your learning style includes highlighting and making notes on the papers. Students now can work where they are most comfortable and at the most convenient times. Learning as we have known it has changed and the opportunities are endless. The classrooms of today have no walls or boundaries.
Check out the resources and links that is prepared to assist you to be able to refine your searches on the web.
B) PURPOSE AND ORGANIZATION
This is a no-prerequisite first course in mining and it is a required course in the Applied Mineral Industries Technology Program through the University of Alaska. Although it is a requirement for the AMIT Program, it is open for anyone interested in mining. Reading, research and practical projects are major components of the course. Although this course bears the AMIT title, it calls to the history buffs, rock hounds, prospectors, heavy equipment operators, and the economists as well as the miner.
The course is a three-credit course that on campus would require five hours of in-class work and maybe about three hours outside of class on study and other activities each week over a 16 week semester. Students taking the on-line course should plan on the same eight hours a week on the course. Objectives are listed for each lesson.
The course is divided in 15 different subjects ranging from the history to the reclamation of mining. Some lessons will take longer that others but on average it works out to be a lesson/week pre topic.
C) COURSE OBJECTIVES
1.Student will be able use maps to locate and stake claims.
2..Student will be able to apply for permits for access, prospecting, mining and reclamation
3. Student will be able to choose the correct method to locate the ore bodies, such geochemical , geological or geophysical sampling.
3.Student will be able to use data collected in the field to determine feasibility of the of the mine.
4.Student will be able to apply for permits to prospect, acquire access, and mine the resources in a given area.
5. Student will be able list what determines the feasibility of a prospective mine such as geological layout of the mineral to mined, economics of the market, costs of labor, accesss to mine equipment and environmental factors.
D) COURSE TOPICS
1. History of Mining
2. Intro to Prospecting
3. Geological Exploration
4. Geophysical Exploration
5. Geochemical Exploration
6. Secondary Exploration
7 Open Pit Mining
8. Mid Term
9. Strip Mining
10 Underground Mining
11. Permits and Laws
12. Environment
13 .Jobs and Tools
14. Mineral Economics
15. Reclamation
16. Final
E). TEXTBOOK AND REQUIRED SUPPLIES
1) Internet ready computer
2) Email capabilities
Many resources and links are provided with each lesson.
F). NOTE ABOUT YOU AND THIS COURSE
Students learn best in many different ways. One of the advantages
of the online format of the course is that it allows students
to approach the course in ways that suit their personal styles
and preferences. In classrooms, instructors are inclined to teach
either as they themselves were taught, or as they think "the
average student" prefers. Online, all of the instructor-presented
class material is laid out at once, and students can do with
it whatever they prefer in order to learn in as personal and
unique a fashion as possible.
Online learning, you will find, is quite different than classroom learning. It requires different attitudes, responsibilities, and communication skills. Contact the instructor if you have difficulties.
G. CONTACT THE INSTRUCTOR (revise these)
E-Mail
psheppard@dmtcalaska.org
Office Phone (907) 895-0000,
Program Web Pages http://www.dmtcalaska.org
H) GRADING
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| Reading | 0 | 0 | Not Graded |
| Tasks | 56% | 280 | 14 topics |
| Mid Term | 22% | 110 | |
| Final | 22% | 110 | |
| Total | 100% | 500 | |
| 451-500 pts = A 401-450 pts = B 351-400 pts = C 301-350 pts = D 000-300 pts = F |
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GENERAL GRADING POLICIES
Except in cases of actual error, final grades are permanent.
The last day to withdraw from the course is to be determined by instructor/Delta Mine Training
Center
Final "I" grades will not be permitted except
in cases of prolonged, continuous, and excused absences in the
latter half of the course. Under no circumstances will an "I"
grade be given when more than half of the course work has not
been completed.
Final "N" grades will be given only in very rare and
exceptional cases. An "N" will never be given
simply to replace a grade that you would prefer not to receive.
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