Laboratories

1  Computer Lab.

Currently the department has no Rock and Soil Mechanics, Mine Ventilation and Environmental and Healthy & Safety Laboratories which are essential for teaching and research.

Equipment Required for Students practical, projects and research.

Mine Ventilation Practices Laboratory:       1. Personal Gravimetric Sampler;   2. Electronic Microbalances;   3.Vertical Manometers;    4.  .Inclined Manometers;    5. Vane Anemometers;  6.  Pitot Tubes.;  7.  Whirling Hygrometers;  8.  Wet Kata Thermometers;  9.  WBGT Index (to measure Heat Stress;  10.  Sound Level   Meters;   11.  Lux Meters;  12.  Detector tubes & Pumps;   13. Dust samplers

Rock Mechanics Laboratory:   1.  Rock coring and grinding machines with         accessories.     2.Core drill for taking samples from large rocks.  3. Diamond saw.  4. Surface grinder.   5.  Iotech DAQBOOK 200kHz PC Based Data Acquisition System.  6. 200 Ton Tinius Olsen testing machine with accessories.   7.  2800 kN MTS stiff testing machine with accessories.  8.  Portable direct shear machine with accessories.  9.  Motorized Direct shear testing machine with accessories for rock and soil. 10. Triaxial testing cells with accessories.  11. Point load tester.  12.  Schmidt hardness tester.  13.  Slake durability testing machine.  14.  Engineering seismograph with accessories for seismic exploration.  15. Vibration seismograph.   16.  Drying oven.  17.  Freezing-thawing testing   machine.   Rock toughness testing machine.   18.  Borehole sliding micrometer.  19.  Plate bearing testing set up.   20.   In situ direct shear test set up.  21. In situ direct shear test set up.  22.  Soils Classification Equipment (ASTM).  23.  Schmidt Hammer test device (ASTM, ISRM).   24.  Slake durability test device (ASTM, ISRM).  25. Helium porosimeter (Core Test Inc., model PHI-220) for direct porosity  measurements.

Mine Design & Planning   1. Atleast Fifteen Personal Computer.     2.  Each Mine  Software & license  subscriptions: e.g. VULCAN 5.0, TECHBASE,     MATLAB

Mine Surveying & GIS Laboratory:  1.  Ttheodolites and accessories.          2.  Levels and accessories.  3.  Plane tables, alidates and accessories.   4.  Planimeters. 5.  Base station with memory card and data transfer system.   6. Handheld GPS.                 7.  Differential GPS.   8.  Laptop computers

Mine Environmental Management, Safety & Health Lab.:  1.One ICP-MS.  2.Two Oxygen Detectors.   3.Two pH Meters.  4.Three Electron Conductivity   Meters.  5.One Field Photometer and accessories.  6.Two sets  of  Submersible Pumps  &    Generator . 7. Two Aspiration Psychrometers.  8.Two Methanometers.  9.One Suction Unit .   10.Five Thermometers.    11.Five Gas Detectors .    12.Three Emergency Breathing Kit.   13. Two Full Mine Rescue Kit .   14. 2 Laptop computers,  15. 4 x 4 Vehicle