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AMIT 101
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Introduction
To
Mining
(3+0)
Fundamentals
of
surface
and
underground
mining,
economic
planning,
proper
exploration
designs,
environmental
concerns,
safety
factors.
AMIT 109
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Underground
Mine
Safety
(1+0)
Rights
of
miners,
self
rescue
devices,
introduction
to
the
work
environment,
escapeways,
roof
and
ground
control,
ventilation,
health,
cleanup,
hazard
recognition,
first
aid,
mine
gasses,
electrical
hazards.
Course
fulfills
the
Mine
Safety
Health
Administration
requirements
for
new
underground
miner
training.
Students
are
awarded
MSHA
certificate
upon
course
completion.
AMIT 110
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
New
Underground
Miner
Training
(3+0)
Orientation
to
the
mine
environment,
general
mine
inspection,
scaling,
staging,
drilling,
rock
bolting,
blasting,
mucking,
and
mine
rescue.
Provides
the
inexperienced
underground
miner
with
the
mandatory
MSHA
federal
training
to
become
employable.
Materials
fee:
$50.00.
AMIT 120
(2
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Explosives
I
(2+0)
Theory
and
safe
use
of
explosives
with
a
focus
on
blasting
agents
used
for
rock
excavation.
AMIT 125
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Mineral
Exploration
Techniques
(3+0)
Modern,
scientific
exploration
and
prospecting
techniques
utilized
in
Alaska
since
the
1970s.
Exploration
design,
ore
deposit
models,
exploration
geochemistry
and
geophysics,
drilling
sampling
and
geostatistics.
AMIT 129
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Surface
Mine
Safety
(1+0)
Rights
of
miners,
introduction
to
the
work
environment,
ground
control,
hazard
recognition,
first
aid,
and
explosive
safety.
Course
fulfills
the
Mine
Safety
Health
Administration
requirements
for
surface
miner
training.
Students
are
awarded
MSHA
certificate
upon
completion
of
the
class.
AMIT 130
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Surface
Mining
Operations
(3+0)
Safe
operations
of
a
surface
mine.
Placer
gold,
sand
and
gravel,
coal,
and
open
pit
metal
mines.
AMIT 140
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Environmental
Permitting
(3+0)
Mineral
development
permits
required
in
Alaska.
Students
are
encouraged
to
provide
their
own
case
histories.
AMIT 151
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Settling
Pond
and
Recycle
Techniques
(1+0)
Design
of
settling
ponds
and
recycle
systems.
Students
will
work
with
individual
case
histories.
AMIT 152
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Fire
Assay
Techniques
(1+0)
Sampling,
theory
and
practice
of
fire
assaying.
Fluxes,
oxidation
and
reduction
reactions,
fusion
of
assay
charges,
cupellation,
annealing,
micro-weighing
and
assay
charge
calculation.
AMIT 153
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Laboratory
Analysis
(1+0)
Production
laboratory
procedures
for
sample
analysis,
heap
leaching
and
titrations.
Individual
projects
required.
AMIT 154
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Water
Quality
and
Flocculents
(1+0)
Water
quality
processes
using
flocculents;
removal
of
total
suspended
solids
from
placer
mining
waste
water.
AMIT 155
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Drilling
Technology
(1+0)
Terminology
and
techniques
used
in
exploration
and
production
drilling.
AMIT 156
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Applied
Cartography
(1+0)
Map
and
chart
preparation.
Drafting
skills
for
prospecting
maps,
mine
maps,
permits
and
data
presentation.
AMIT 161
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Alaska
Ore
Deposits
(1+0)
Geology,
ore
reserves
and
preliminary
mining
plans
of
significant
Alaskan
mineral
deposits.
AMIT 162
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Geochemical
Sampling
(1+0)
Hands-on
scientific
sampling
methods
for
rock,
soil,
pan
concentrates,
stream
sediments,
air
and
water.
AMIT 170
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Fundamentals
of
Coal
Mining
(3+0)
Origin
and
types
of
Alaskan
and
other
coal
deposits,
exploration
and
planning
methods,
extraction
processes
for
underground
and
surface
mines,
mining
safety,
coal
preparation,
and
reclamation.
Job
requirements,
safety,
and
environmental
consideration.
Optional
field
trip
to
an
active
coal
mine.
AMIT 180
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Colored
Stone
Grading
and
Evaluation
(3+0)
Grading,
appraisals,
and
identification
of
colored
stones.
Formation
and
structure,
properties,
deposits
and
production,
and
descriptions
of
major
gemstones.
AMIT 185
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Diamond
Evaluation
and
Grading
(1+0)
Colors
and
clarity
grading
of
diamonds,
mining
of
raw
material,
and
detection
of
stimulants.
AMIT 205
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Geomagnetic
Surveying
(1+0)
Placer
gold
deposit
prospecting
using
magnetic
surveying.
Student
survey
work
and
data
interpretation.
AMIT 206
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Electromagnetic
Surveying
(1+0)
Electromagnetic
geophysical
exploration
methods
and
operations
using
the
VLF-EM-16,
an
exploration
tool
for
gold
and/or
massive
sulfide
deposits.
AMIT 210
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Advanced
Underground
Mining
(3+0)
Skill
training
conducted
in
safety,
drilling,
blasting,
ground
support,
mucking,
maintenance
and
utilities
at
the
Silver
Fox
Mine.
AMIT 220
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Explosives
II
(1+0)
Advanced
techniques
in
safe
use
of
explosives.
Students
get
"hands-on"
experience
in
blasting.
AMIT 230
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Field
Methods
(1+0)
Topographic
map
reading
using
a
compass
and
basic
field
procedures.
AMIT 231
(1
Credit)
As
Demand
Warrants
Heap
Leaching
(1+0)
Heap
leaching
covering
cyanide
safety,
leach
pad
construction
and
placement,
cyanide
processing,
thiourea,
case
histories,
applications
to
Alaska
and
economics.
AMIT 280
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Colored
Stone
Evaluation
II
(3+0)
Gemstones
covered
are
garnet,
pyroxene,
organic,
inorganic,
and
specialty
stones.
A
continuation
of
Colored
Stone
Evaluation
I.
(Prerequisite:
AMIT
180.)
AMIT 282
(1
-
2
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Mining
Coop
Work
Experience
Practical
work
experience
in
a
professional
mining
environment.
For
the
student
who
has
mastered
basic
mining
techniques
and
terminology.
Placement
and
work
assignments
depend
upon
student
experience.
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