MEMG0002 - ECTS Development of a quantitative point of view of Treatment diagrams in operations.
Study of the indicators which describe separation processes performance.

MEMG0003 - ECTS To endow students with a set of concepts which are necessary to understand and study underground water circulation.
This course unit aims to provide future engineers with basic concepts, which allow them to deepen their knowledge in future situations, if their work so demands it. Thus this course unit gives special emphasis to the understanding of concepts and methods which can be henceforward deepened. At the same time, practical classes will be based on the presentation of more technical knowledge of nowadays state of the art.

MEMG0001 - ECTS The aims of this course unit are:
- Knowledge: To diagnose the main problems caused by the extractive industry before, during and after extraction; techniques and methods to solve the diagnosed problems.
- Understanding: Life cycle phases of manufacturing industry and its environmental implications;
- Application: To distinguish the application field of the different alternatives of adverse environmental impact minimization and select the most appropriate technology to each situation;
- Analysis: Analytical decomposition of impacts generated in the environmental impact analysis, in the creation of an environmental management plan and during the elaboration of a closure and abandonment strategy.
- Synthesis: To create a coherent methodology of integrated resolution of adverse environmental implications.
- Assessment: To compare technological and methodological alternatives.

MEMG0004 - ECTS In the wake of the course unit of Rock Mass Exploitation, this new course unit will act, to a certain extent, as a way of deepening some subject matters skimmed over or taught in the previous course unit, being now more focused on the application in underground mining. Hence the subject matter of mining exploration methods will be resumed, being given a special emphasis to the methods which are currently most used. It will also be analysed the mechanisation of mining operations (determinants of the phenomena, historical evolution of equipments, current equipments, advantages and disadvantages of mining intensive mechanisation), as well as their impact on the selection of exploration methods and the panoply of current methods.
There is a growing tendency to use tunnels to solve countless road and railway traffic problems, thus this will be a subject matter which will be thorough developed, mainly concerning the current methods of excavation, equipments used, surrounding ground of excavation sites and implementation of subsidiary mining operations, being given an emphasis to ventilation, drainage and sewage. Additionally, it will also be studied the methods and technologies applicable to cavern excavation for multiple purposes.
Still relating to the subject matter of exploration methods, it will be studied the classic and current technologies of well (extraction and ventilation) ramps and chimneys opening.
The use of explosives to the above mentioned purposes is a subject matter which will also be resumed, because of the specificity of the excavations and the reflection on the design and implementation of the fire diagrams.
Due to the amount of time available and as far as possible, it will be handled the conceptual, practical and legal aspects related to the organization of excavation (in the broad sense of the word) works and safety.

MEMG0005 - ECTS Introduction to the concepts, principles and fundamental theories describing and explaining both the mechanical behaviour (in terms of resistance and deformability) and the hydraulic behaviour of soil masses.

MEMG0007 - ECTS This course aims to develop students’ contact with subject matters related to mine exploration.
It is mainly focused on the methodologies of exploration of opencast mineral resources, being all the elementary operations of this extractive activity comprehensively analysed.
This course unit also aims to endow students with skills (and attitudes) which make them able to design an exploration system of rock masses or coordinate in an optimized way an exploration unit.

MEMG0009 - ECTS To provide students with formal theoretical knowledge and concepts of immediate application, capable of acquainting them with an integrated approach of Structural Geology problems and Rock and Soils Mechanics.

MEMG0010 - ECTS - Knowledge: Recall basic concepts related to material balance in biphasic systems (solid-liquid); General concepts of chemistry.
- Comprehension: Recognize, Express and identify the unit operations involved in a hydrometallurgical process.
- Application: To discriminate the field of application of different technologies: to select the most appropriate technology for a particular case.
- Analysis: To calculate the materials balance in steady-state using analytical, numerical and graphical methods for each unit operation.
- Synthesis: Create and organize coherent process flowsheets for each unit operation and for the process as a whole.
Evaluation: Compare different process alternatives.

MEMG0008 - ECTS Students should be capable of applying project systematic techniques to a mining project.

MEMG0006 - ECTS To familiarise students with Fourier Transform, supported by the previous teaching of the theory of tempered distributions.
Illustration of the theory with applications in the domain of mining engineering and geoenvironment, namely geophysics. Application of the theory on the treatment of signal in geophysics, namely seismic and gravimetry, as well as temporal series, for instance, climate data, seismic registers, etc…
This knowledge should be well consolidated, enabling students to deepen their knowledge, if their professional activity so demands it.

MEMG0020 - ECTS

MEMG0012 - ECTS Introduction to the fundamental concepts and procedures of data analysis with spatial variability (Geostatistics). It aims to enable students to apply it in a mining, geoenvironmental and geotechnical environment.

MEMG0018 - ECTS The aims of this course unit are:
- Knowledge: recall knowledge related to multi-phase equilibrium, environmental chemistry and eco-toxicology;
- Understanding: To identify, recognize and characterize situations of soil and aquifer contamination;
- Application: To distinguish the field of application of different technologies; To select the technologies adapted to each situation;
- Analysis: To carry out a simple risk analysis; To define the investigation to carry out a corrective action plan;
- Synthesis: To set the methodology of a corrective action plan; Dimensioning units of soil and/or groundwater remediation.

MEMG0013 - ECTS This course aims at providing students with an introductory contact with the management process, concepts and tools. This course covers the management process, the main management functional areas, and some introductory concepts of strategic management.
The course will join a strong theoretical basis with an applied component, through the use of case studies and group work.

MEMG0015 - ECTS These are the aims of each of the following four modules:

I – General introduction to Geochemistry
To be familiar with the geochemical classification of elements and understand the intimate association between the main geospheres (atmosphere, hydrosphere, crust, mantle and core) and the primary geochemical differentiation of elements. To compare the geochemical affinity of an element concerning the different types of mineral phases (silicated, sulphurated, Fe-Ni metal alloys) and planetary differentiation by density.
To relate the basic notions of:
- Major, minor and trace elements;
- Clarke and Clarke of concentration;
- Abundance and availability of elements.

II - Basic concepts of magmatic rocks geochemistry
From the concepts of magmatic differentiation, suite and magma series, students should understand the basic methodologies of variation diagram design to verify if a suite can constitute a magma series.
By using software available on the Internet, students should design variation diagrams for magmatic suites and classify magma series.

III – Geochemistry of supergen environments
To understand the chemical disequilibrium of materials of endogenous origin when exposed to superficial environments. To be familiar with the main types of supergen reactions of endogenous paragenesis alteration.

IV- Geochemical exploration
To be familiar with the fundamentals of geochemical exploration and then decide the application of this method.

MEMG0017 - ECTS To acquire an integrated vision of the concepts, techniques and strategies of management applied to extraction and manufacturing industry.

MEMG0011 - ECTS There are five fundamental aims
Knowledge: Recall basic concepts related to the resolution of ordinary differential equations using the Laplace Transform;
Comprehension: Recognize and explain the behavior of simple paradigmatic systems; create models for systems with a typical behavior; to explain the physical foundation of sensors. To know how to select valves adjusted to their function in a closed loop control system.
Application: To recognize model structures and infer the relevant parameters from the experimental behavior;
Analysis: To use the dynamic simulation as a tool for comprehension and action on the process;
Synthesis: To distinguish and elaborate paradigmatic control strategies.
Evaluation: To evaluate the behavior of a control loop and its field of stability.

MEMG0014 - ECTS

MEMG0019 - ECTS