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Mining Engineering! Great fun with a great job!!

Hey there!
Thought id just put a little bit down about my course as it doesnt seem to be on here, unyet you are all talking about engineeing courses.
I study Mining engineering at Camborne School of Mines at UEC (university of exter in cornwall)-bit long winded so CSM for simplicity.
Mining is booming everywhere in the world apart from the UK, although we do have just over 90 mines still working in the UK and thousands of Quarries.
We study Electronics,Mechanics,Fluids,Explosives,Blasting,planning,Mining and quarrying Methods and lots of other cool stuff. Literally all my friends doing other Engineering courses wish they were doing Mining! Starting wage for a Mining Graduate is over £25 grand a year and increases sooooo quickly. You can travel anywhere you want and the posibilities are endless.
We have our own Mine in conwall where we use Big rock drills, survey, use massive equipment and blow up rock!
CSM is a world recognised institute with a fantastic reputation!
We are not part of the engineering department of Exeter because we are an eath science but we get a BEng or MEng!!!
I have never had so much fun doing work! If you want to travel, have litterally 7 jobs to choose from when you graduate, make a shed load of money and do engineering then this is for you!
CSM is a really nice community we have our own society and we organise our own events (its like a bonus) We have a second freshers week purely for us so get the best of both worlds.
Engineering is great. I love practical work down the mine- infact so much that this May I am going to Chile to a Blasting convention and going to a couple of Mines, then hopefully Australia in the summer for a PAID vacation placement!

Sorry this goes on a bit but really want people to know how great this course is as so many people just go for the bog standard mech or elec- Do something fun and different!!!!!

Look up UEC or CSM
or contact me if you want any details- dont worry i wont bite.
Oh yeah its not just a guys course- there are a few of us girls, so come on ladies this is where we can make the money and prove we are just as good as guys-I won best driller last year! :p:

Holly
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Sounds interesting. Did you see that recent documentary on the Chanel Tunnel? Very cool, and their drilling machine...wow. :biggrin: And hey, standard mech eng' can be fun too, although we tend to fixate on the theory far more, I think my degree can take me to a wider variety of jobs. But yeah, your course sounds like a lot of fun!

What did you have to do to win best 'driller' of the year? :eek:
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Hmmm, mining engineering?

I think that, given I am only the second male in my family to not go down a mine (I am from an area that had dozens of coal mines), I think my dad would go slightly mental with me if I went into that!

I read somewhere that other countries were advertising round here to try and get ex-miners to go and work there because there is a shortage of skilled people.
Wow, that's pretty amazing!

I'm planning on doing Resource and Applied Geology with a bit of mining, and resource exploration involved, I can't wait! I'd go into engineering if only I didn't screw up my maths which I did :redface: and then dropped...

Anyways, I've applied at Exeter too, just for Applied Geology though, but your course sounds pretty amazing! :biggrin:
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black_mamba
Sounds interesting. Did you see that recent documentary on the Chanel Tunnel? Very cool, and their drilling machine...wow. :biggrin: And hey, standard mech eng' can be fun too, although we tend to fixate on the theory far more, I think my degree can take me to a wider variety of jobs. But yeah, your course sounds like a lot of fun!

What did you have to do to win best 'driller' of the year? :eek:


Yea mech eng is good too, just bigging up my course.

We all had to handle a six foot Rock drill on an air leg (by god thoes things are heavy) and drill for a certain amount of time as well as we could operating it correctly and professionally. I got the furthest into the rock and managed to lift the bugger, even though some of the guys wimped out. :biggrin:

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burned_out_58
Wow, that's pretty amazing!

I'm planning on doing Resource and Applied Geology with a bit of mining, and resource exploration involved, I can't wait! I'd go into engineering if only I didn't screw up my maths which I did :redface: and then dropped...

Anyways, I've applied at Exeter too, just for Applied Geology though, but your course sounds pretty amazing! :biggrin:


Applied Geology is part of Camborne School of Mines, and is an awesome course I would highly recogmend it. I you wanted to do the engineering you could probably swap onto it in the first term. We all have to do foundataion maths anyway. Have you seen the post for Grology and Geotecnics I put?
Anyway, the geologist always gets paid and you guys get wicked trips and job as mining geologists all over the world. Go for it. aint no better place to look at cool rocks than cornwall! We even have our own Mine!

Hope to see you next year.
Holly
I'm too claustrophobic to go down a mine. Dark and scary!
Mining Fairy



Applied Geology is part of Camborne School of Mines, and is an awesome course I would highly recogmend it. I you wanted to do the engineering you could probably swap onto it in the first term. We all have to do foundataion maths anyway. Have you seen the post for Geology and Geotecnics I put?
Anyway, the geologist always gets paid and you guys get wicked trips and job as mining geologists all over the world. Go for it. aint no better place to look at cool rocks than cornwall! We even have our own Mine!

Hope to see you next year.
Holly


Yea I read that, and I was like, wow somebody out there who seemed interested in the stuff I am/was interested in. Lol. I can't wait to go on the trips. Exeter might be my insurance, I'm not sure, I've kinda gone off the idea of Env.Geoscience, and applied Geology seems like a better back up, and after reading what you have to say about the mines and the school it sounds pretty awesome! :biggrin:
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burned_out_58
Yea I read that, and I was like, wow somebody out there who seemed interested in the stuff I am/was interested in. Lol. I can't wait to go on the trips. Exeter might be my insurance, I'm not sure, I've kinda gone off the idea of Env.Geoscience, and applied Geology seems like a better back up, and after reading what you have to say about the mines and the school it sounds pretty awesome! :biggrin:


Yea tis cool. We all enjoy it. The Geology crowd are awesome too. You gets get so much down here. Im half jealous- only half cos im a sucker for engineering and mines. Where else u thinking of going?
We are in the top 10 too which is pretty cool. You should check out our student society page, well its a bit crude and not that good a the mo but its only been up a lil while. We do stuff for CSM all the time.
Anway if you wanna come down and get a tour, let me know.

Holly

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Happy Cycling
I'm too claustrophobic to go down a mine. Dark and scary!


Shame but I completly understand. Quarrying is mining too, its not all underground.

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Gaskell
Hmmm, mining engineering?

I think that, given I am only the second male in my family to not go down a mine (I am from an area that had dozens of coal mines), I think my dad would go slightly mental with me if I went into that!

I read somewhere that other countries were advertising round here to try and get ex-miners to go and work there because there is a shortage of skilled people.


Hells yea. Other countries/companies are always advertising for miner/mining engineers due to a major skills shortage. thats why we have 7 jobs per graduate and the money is so good.
Where do you come from? We dont actually work the mines as engineers but run them and design them.
Mining Fairy
Yea tis cool. We all enjoy it. The Geology crowd are awesome too. You gets get so much down here. Im half jealous- only half cos im a sucker for engineering and mines. Where else u thinking of going?
We are in the top 10 too which is pretty cool. You should check out our student society page, well its a bit crude and not that good a the mo but its only been up a lil while. We do stuff for CSM all the time.
Anway if you wanna come down and get a tour, let me know.

Holly


It's in my sig, but Bham - Resource and Applied Geology, Cardiff/Edinburgh/Bristol - Environmental Geoscience, Soton - Geology and Exeter - Applied Geology.

I've already decided that Bham will be my firm, I'm inlove with the course, but Exeter is now definetly in the running for my insurance, but they did ask for 300pts whilst Edin ask for BBC. Damn the possibilities.

Atleast by reading what you've written about graduate opportunites and whatnot, it sounds like an excellent place to go, and now I don't feel so random about doing Geology :biggrin:
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Where do you come from?
County Durham. We used to have mines at Monkwearmouth (Stadium of Light is there now), Ryhope, Seaham, Easington (where most of Billy Elliot was filmed), Blackhall, Shotton and around a dozen more that vanished before I was born. Had so many pit-heads that the RAF used to use them for navigation.
Reply 10
Gaskell
County Durham. We used to have mines at Monkwearmouth (Stadium of Light is there now), Ryhope, Seaham, Easington (where most of Billy Elliot was filmed), Blackhall, Shotton and around a dozen more that vanished before I was born. Had so many pit-heads that the RAF used to use them for navigation.


We are hopeing to get some trips up your way to see some old excavations and working mines soon. Im lucky enough to be going to Chile this year to see some wicked mines and quarries, they said I could blow some stuff up too, yay! Did the RAF really use them? thats pretty sweet!
what do you do?
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I am hoping to go into Mechanical or Automotive Engineering at Huddersfield. After nearly 19 years I want to move away.

We are hopeing to get some trips up your way to see some old excavations and working mines soon.
The last working mine up here was Ellington in Northumberland that shut down last year after the floods (it would cost too much to pump the water out :frown:). For mining history theres a drift-mine and a "working" mine at Beamish museum.

A mate of mine was secratery (sp?) of the Easington Miners Union during the strikes in the 1980s.
Thanks for the infoo mining fairy !!! im a female that just got accepted into mining engineering in canada... nd i wus very hesitant to whether i should continue this crazy idea of becoming a minning engineer or back out... well from wut u said i think i ll give it a shot haha ... blast onnn \m/
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Mining Fairy
Hey there!
Thought id just put a little bit down about my course as it doesnt seem to be on here, unyet you are all talking about engineeing courses.
I study Mining engineering at Camborne School of Mines at UEC (university of exter in cornwall)-bit long winded so CSM for simplicity.
Mining is booming everywhere in the world apart from the UK, although we do have just over 90 mines still working in the UK and thousands of Quarries.
We study Electronics,Mechanics,Fluids,Explosives,Blasting,planning,Mining and quarrying Methods and lots of other cool stuff. Literally all my friends doing other Engineering courses wish they were doing Mining! Starting wage for a Mining Graduate is over £25 grand a year and increases sooooo quickly. You can travel anywhere you want and the posibilities are endless.
We have our own Mine in conwall where we use Big rock drills, survey, use massive equipment and blow up rock!
CSM is a world recognised institute with a fantastic reputation!
We are not part of the engineering department of Exeter because we are an eath science but we get a BEng or MEng!!!
I have never had so much fun doing work! If you want to travel, have litterally 7 jobs to choose from when you graduate, make a shed load of money and do engineering then this is for you!
CSM is a really nice community we have our own society and we organise our own events (its like a bonus) We have a second freshers week purely for us so get the best of both worlds.
Engineering is great. I love practical work down the mine- infact so much that this May I am going to Chile to a Blasting convention and going to a couple of Mines, then hopefully Australia in the summer for a PAID vacation placement!

Sorry this goes on a bit but really want people to know how great this course is as so many people just go for the bog standard mech or elec- Do something fun and different!!!!!

Look up UEC or CSM
or contact me if you want any details- dont worry i wont bite.
Oh yeah its not just a guys course- there are a few of us girls, so come on ladies this is where we can make the money and prove we are just as good as guys-I won best driller last year! :p:

Holly
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Hi, I saw your post on the student room on mining engineering, I was wondering what sort of grades did you get to get in and what subjects did you study in alevel? Is it hard to get in and did you also do any work experience in your alevel to make your application stronger. Sorry there's not much I could find out about mining on the internet so I had to ask you. I would be applying this year.

Zaf