Innovative Mining Technology: Opencast and Underground.
Automation, Robotics, Tele-monitoring in Mines, Virtual Reality and Animation

Extra-Terrestrial Mining: Deep Sea Mining, Moon Mining, Asteroid Mining, Mining in the Arctic and Antarctica.

Underground Gasification and Coal Bed Methane, Remote Sensing, GIS & GPS Applications

Innovations in Instrumentation and Communication System, Bioleaching and Heap Leaching, Clean Coal Technology.

To familiarize with modern and innovative mining practices

Mining of ores from space and deep sea

understanding novel and new techniques for future mining

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