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SCCL MT MINING EXAM SYLLABUS

SCCL MANAGEMENT TRAINEE (MINING) EXAM SYLLABUS

Syllabus for the post of Management Trainee(Mining), E-2 Grade (External)

Employment Notification No. 01/2024

PART-I (Subject related to the post)

Mine

Management,

Legislation and

General Safety.

The Mines Act, 1952; Mines Rules 1955, Mines Rescue

Rules, 1985, Mine Vocational Training Rules, 1966, Coal

Mine Regulation, 2017 and other rules and legislation as

applicable to coal mines.

Provisions of Central Electricity Authority (Measures relating

to Safety and Electric Supply) Regulations, 2010 applicable

to mines.

Methods of coal

Mining, Drilling

Technology.

Opening of coal seams, Methods of boring, boring through

disturbed strata; bore hole survey; interpretation of

geological maps.

Methods of shaft sinking: mechanized sinking, in ordinary

and water logged grounds and other special methods; shaft

supports, temporary and permanent, mechanised stone

drifting etc.

Underground Mining Methods: Choice of methods of mining

coal seams and factors (depth, seam thickness, inclination,

etc.) affecting the same; statutory provisions.

Board and pillar method: statutory provisions, mechanized

loaders, continuous miners etc., depillaring and applicable

statutory provision; pillar extraction with caving and

stowing; mechanization in depillaring; local fall and main

fall; indications of roof weighting; air blasts and precautions

against the same;

Multi-section and continuous working; liquidation of

developed pillars.

Longwall mining: longwall face-advancing and retreating

faces; support ststem for longwall gate roads; powered

support; face transfer, operation of shearer and plough;

Thick seam mining: Board and pillar and longwall methods

in multi-section; multi-slice methods; inclined slicing;

horizontal slicing and cross slicing in ascending and

descending orders; under-winning methods; sublevel

caving; and descending shield methods; hydraulic mining;

special methods of thick seam mining.

Other special methods of mining: Wide stall method;

method of mining thin seams; underground coal

gasification, coal bed methane/ coal mine methane etc.

Mine Ventilation,

Mine Fires,

Explosions,

Inundations,

Rescue and

Recovery.

Mine Gases: Generation, Properties and Physiological

Effects, Detection of Mine Gases, Methanometers and Multi

gas Detectors, Flame Safety Lamps.

Mine fires and Hazards due to extraction of developed

pillars, its mitigation,

Inundation, Explosions in mines, risk of opencast mining

near water bodies, rivers, and mitigation measures against

risk from inrush of water Hazards due to Extreme weather

condition in opencast mines and its mitigation Occupational

hazards in surface mining and precautions.

Rescue and recovery; investigations and reports; fire

fighting plan; rescue equipment; resuscitation and reviving

apparatus; selection and training for rescue work.

Heat and humidity: Sources of heat in mines; geothermal

gradient; effects of heat and humidity; heat transfer in

board and pillar and long wall workings; methods of

calculation of heat flow and temperature rise; heat load due

to various machines; air cooling and conditioning.

Air flow in mines: Laws of air flow; resistance of airways;

resistance and splitting problems; equipment orifice; flow

control devices; permissible air velocities.

Natural ventilation: Seasonal variations; calculation of

natural ventilation pressure.

Explosives and

Blasting

Techniques.

Types of explosives, explosive being used in underground

mines and opencast mines, detonators and accessories,

Transport and storage of explosive, solid blasting. Blasting

patterns

Rock Mechanics

and Ground

control.

Pressure arc theory, subsidence, types of roof, testing of

roof, supporting materials, Types of support, mechanised

support, Roof bolting, cable bolting, RMR.

Safety

Management and

Environment

Management in

Mines.

Airborne dust: Generation, dispersion, measurement and

control; suppression and treatment of coal dust; properties

of stone dust; sampling and analysis of coal dust.

Mine closure plan: Reclamation etc.

Failure of dumps and benches, Dump stability

managements etc

Mining

Machinery,

Fundamentals of

Electrical and

Mechanical

Engineering,

Material handling equipment in mines: Types, construction

and operation; Safety devices; maintenance and

calculations for rope haulages; locomotives, conveyors,

systems, rope-ways, communication equipment, man riding

systems; in-pit crushers, feeder breaker etc., use of diesel

equipments in underground coal mines, free steered

vehicles.

Pumps: Types, Characteristics, motor power, capacity ,

laying of water mains, dealing with acid water; slurry,

drainage; lodgements, storage, designs and layout of dams,

sumps, pumping problems.

Function and operation of blast hole drills, rippers, scrapers,

shovels; draglines, dumpers, road graders, dozers, wheel

loaders; Bucket Wheel Excavators; spreaders; surface

continuous miners, rock breakers and their maintenance

aspects, water-trucks, In-pit crushing conveying (IPCC)

Generation, transmission and utilization of Power, Steam

and compressed air: Air compressor and auxiliary

equipment; air turbines and air engines; efficiency of power,

steam system; safety aspects.

Maintenance systems, Mechanical ventilation, fans in series

and parallel, reversal of air flow; fan drift, diffuser and

evasee; booster and auxiliary fans; standards of ventilation;

ventilation calculation.

Fundamentals of

Mining Geology.

Nature and occurrence of coal seams; description of Indian

coalfields; features of coalfields; Mohr’s scale of hardness

Fundamentals of

Mine surveying.

Dip and strike problems: outcrop problems; borehole

surveying and calculations. Types of plans and their

preparation, care, storage and preservation: legislation

concerning mine plans and sections; duties and

responsibilities of surveyors. Application of computers in

mine surveying and preparation of plans

Fundamentals of

IT.

Use of IT in mining industry, software being used in mine

planning and mine surveying. OITDS, GPS based Vehicle

Monitoring systems

PART-II (General Studies)

1. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

2. GENERAL ENGLISH

3. QUANTITATIVE APTITUDE & NUMERICAL ABILITY

4. TEST OF REASONING

5. COMPUTER BASICS