NPTEL : NOC:Mine Closure and Sustainability Planning (Metallurgy and Material Science)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Khanindra Pathak


Lecture 1 - Introduction to closure concept

Lecture 2 - Mine Closure Objectives and Regulatory Aspects

Lecture 3 - Mining Footprint and Regulatory Aspects

Lecture 4 - Mine Closure Costs and Financing Approaches

Lecture 5 - Decommissioning of Mines

Lecture 6 - Demolition Techniques

Lecture 7 - Post Closure Liabilities and Activities

Lecture 8 - Post Closure Community Concerns and Sustainable Development Plans

Lecture 9 - Closure oriented Resource Development-Post Mining Land Uses

Lecture 10 - Post mining site monitoring

Lecture 11 - Planning inputs, tools and techniques

Lecture 12 - Tools and Techniques for Closure Plan Development and Procedures

Lecture 13 - Closure Plan Development Procedures

Lecture 14 - Monitoring, Review and Feedback of Closure Plan Implementation-Closure Criteria

Lecture 15 - Failure Mode and Effect Analysis Framework for Mine Closure Planning

Lecture 16 - Multiple Accounts Analysis (MAA) for Assessment of Closure Alternatives

Lecture 17 - Provisioning of capital

Lecture 18 - Closure costs and Rehabilitation Costs

Lecture 19 - Finance and Accounting: Closure cost estimate

Lecture 20 - Closure Economics and Audit

Lecture 21 - Application of Remote Sensing for Mine Closure-Introduction

Lecture 22 - Remote Sensing Sensors

Lecture 23 - Remote Sensing media and sensors

Lecture 24 - Image Processing and Data Interpretation

Lecture 25 - GIS for Mine Closure: Mapping and Geo-Spatial Data Analysis

Lecture 26 - Integration of phase operations

Lecture 27 - Integration of Interdepartmental work and phase operations - Part 1

Lecture 28 - Integration of Interdepartmental work and phase operations - Part 2

Lecture 29 - Risk Analysis Techniques and Management

Lecture 30 - Post Mine Closure Waste to Wealth Conversion

Lecture 31 - CSR and EMP Integration

Lecture 32 - Introduction to Asset Management

Lecture 33 - Principle of Asset Management and Decommissioning of Assets for Site Restoration

Lecture 34 - Brownfield Redevelopment and Value Addition to Assets

Lecture 35 - Landform Design and Post Mining Asset Creation

Lecture 36 - Concept of Sustainable Development and Mining industry

Lecture 37 - Sustainability Measurement and Reporting

Lecture 38 - Sustainability Measurement and Reporting (Continued...)

Lecture 39 - Sustainable Mineral Industry

Lecture 40 - Policy and Legislative Framework of Sustainability for SDG and Mine Closure

Lecture 41 - Communicating sustainability performance

Lecture 42 - Framework of Sustainability reporting

Lecture 43 - Sustainable accounting

Lecture 44 - Case studies on Sustainability initiatives in Mining Industry

Lecture 45 - Data Analytics for Sustainability management

Lecture 46 - Cleaner Production Based Closure Management

Lecture 47 - Regenerative environment design for sustainable Mine Closure

Lecture 48 - Reusable resource identification in post closure mine site

Lecture 49 - Optimization of Residual Value of Assets

Lecture 50 - Post Mining Site for Community wealth

Lecture 51 - Management of water resources

Lecture 52 - Soil Treatment and Revegetation

Lecture 53 - Bio-diversity: Post Land reclamation and plantation

Lecture 54 - Physical and Chemical Stability issues

Lecture 55 - Economic Utilization of Post Mining Structures and assets

Lecture 56 - Techniques for closing underground workings

Lecture 57 - Application of Industry 4.0 for Mine

Lecture 58 - Best mining practices for Sustainable mining - Case studies

Lecture 59 - Stability Monitoring and Enhancing tools

Lecture 60 - VR and AR Technology for Post Mining Mine site Visualization and Design