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Dear sir I am doing my plus two I would like to know mining engineering and its career prospects?- 6-Mar-2008
Mining Engineering is a field that involves many of the other engineering disciplines as applied to extracting and processing minerals from a naturally occurring environment.
Mining engineering is the extraction of valuable ores from the ground for processing and utilisation. it involves all phases of mining operations starting from exploration and discovery, through feasibility, development , production, processing and marketing to final land restoration and rehabilitation.
Mining engineers are responsible for locating natural reserves of minerals, petroleum, and other useful natural substances and then lay out plans, device shafts , inclines or quarries safe extraction of theses resources , whether they coal or petroleum or metallic and non metallic minerals from under the earth.
Mining engineers are employed by mining companies initially at the mining centres where minerals are extracted. Some time even civil engineering construction companies employ mining engineers to supervise tunnelling and open cut operations railways and roads etc.
Mining engineering is offered at graduate level at college of engineering Anna University Chennai.
