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Ostrava, Czech Republic

Technical University of Ostrava

Mining and Mining Geomechanics

Hornictví a hornická geomechanika

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⇑Mining and Mining Geomechanics at VSB-TUO

Language: Czech Studies in Czech

Studies in Czech

Subject area: engineering and engineering trades

University website: www.vsb.cz

Years of study: 4

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit. These deposits form a mineralized package that is of economic interest to the miner.

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