Tecnologias de Desmonte de Maciço Rochosos

Provide students with technical concepts of rock excavation (ornamental stones, aggregates, ores and sands), namely, the choice of the most suitable techniques, equipment sizing and procedures, legislation and environmental impact. Techniques concerning the open pit or underground excavations are also taught. Students will be able to integrate work teams in implementing projects of quarrying, mining reports and Environmental Impact Studies and to enable the technical direction of quarries. Some skills are more specific:

- Scale and select equipment’s for each excavation project;
- Propose alternative labor methodologies to increase efficiency and productivity;
- Make short-term planning, namely daily allocation of equipment and excavation advances;
- Project fire blasting for open pit and underground excavations and optimize explosive amounts.