The course content addresses the following topics:
- Basic principles of mine surveying
- The importance of surveying in mine planning and design
- The legal requirements and duties falling on the mine surveyor
- Basic principles of mine surveying
- Mine survey legislation
- Basic survey instruments and their uses
- Gauss conform, universal transverse mercator, goldfields, local origin, World Geodetic System 84
- Levelling (practical and calculations) with cut and fill calculations
- Volume determination from levelling observations
- Rise and fall and collimation method With all the checks
- Calculation of the coordinates of an underground or surface survey station
- Accepted calculation method, layout, and checks within the prescribed time, including closed-loop traverses
- Areas of irregular figures using area by coordinates, including the sub-division of areas