Raw Materials and Industry

Knowledge and understanding
The course aims to provide students basic knowledge on supplying of mineral raw materials and specifically: basics of economy and trade of mineral commodities, mineral prospection, resources and reserves evaluation, exploitation, beneficiation and environmental hazard. Students will acquire also specific knowledge on the main Industrial Minerals.
Applying knowledge and understanding
The students will be able to understand dynamics of mineral trade and economics and to apply them to mining strategies of companies, they will be able to plan exploitation and beneficiation methods according to different characteristics of mineral deposits, they will be able to understand and evaluate resources and reserves key reports. They will be able to apply their knowledge on industrial minerals to their research and exploitation and will be able to evaluate the main environmental hazards related to mineral exploitation. Students will be also able to compute parameters for meeting quality standards of mineral commodities.

Making judgements
Students will be able to formulate hypotheses on main economic trends in mineral commoditiy markets and to autonomously evaluate commercial parameters of raw minerals, particularly of industrial minerals. Students will be able to address in the field to al the components of exploitation and beneficiation plants and to evaluate technologies used.
Communication skills
Students will develop language technical and specific language skills that will aloow him/her to interact with all porfessional experts in the field of mineral exploitation: workers, technicians mining engineers, economicists and so on.
Learning skills The course provides basis for widening and deepening knowledge and competences in the mineral exploitation industry, that can be applied to specific sectors.