One credit point (LP) is equivalent to one ECTS point = 30 hours workload per semester.
If modules are held in two semesters, they will be listed twice in the list below (once in each semester).
First semester (winter semester):
- Module: Shaft Sinking and Advanced Ventilation (lectures and tutorial, 6 LP, part 1/2)
- Module: International Mining (lectures, seminar and tutorial, 6 LP)
- Module: Geomatics (lectures and tutorial, 6 LP, part 1/2)
- Module: Mineral Resources (lecture, 6 LP)
- Module: Mineral Processing (lecture and tutorial, 4 LP)
- Module: Underground Mining Equipment (lecture and project, 6 LP)
Second semester (summer semester):
- Module: Shaft Sinking and Advanced Ventilation (lectures and tutorial, 6 LP, part 2/2)
- Module: Responsible Mining (lectures and tutorial, 6 LP)
- Module: IoT and Digitalisation for Circular Economy (lecture, 6 LP)
- Module: Advanced Rock Mechanics (lecture and tutorial, 6 LP)
- Module: Geomatics (lectures and tutorial, 6 LP, part 2/2)
- Module: Seminar on Mining Engineering (6 LP)
- Module: Advanced Surface Mining (lectures, 8 LP, part 1/2)
Third semester (winter semester)
- Module: Advanced Surface Mining (lectures, 8 LP, part 2/2)
- Module: Mining and Environment (lecture and tutorial, 6 LP)
- Module: Applied Rock Mechanics (lecture and tutorial, 6 LP)
- Module: student research project (6 LP)
- Module: elective I (lecture, 3 LP)
- Module: elective II (lecture, 3 LP)
Fourth semester (summer semester):
- Module: elective III (3 LP)
- Module: elective IV (3 LP)
- Module: Master's thesis (24 LP)
In each of the four elective modules (I to IV), one of the following lectures has to be chosen:
- Specialised Driving Methods
- Underground Blasting and Explosives Engineering
- Natural Gas Storage in Rock Caverns
- Computer-Based Block Modelling and Resource Estimation
- Computer-Based Surface Mine Planning
- Underground Water Systems and Treatment
- Selected Chapters in Underground Emergency Control
- Sustainable Mine Practice
- Mine Closure
- Mining Technology and Automation
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Clausthal University of Technology and the Institute of Mining are connected worldwide with other mining schools and offer exchange semesters with specific partners (the offer changes every two years).
There is no internship integrated in the curriculum. However, as an admission requirement, eight weeks of an internship have to be proven. If this is not possible for any reason, the internship may be deferred until the end of the second semester.