Underground Mining of Metalliferous deposits

Bibhuti Bhusan Mandal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mining Engineering, M. Tech (Mining Engineering) and Ph.D. (ESE). He also holds the Mine Manager’s First Class Certificate of Competency issued by the Directorate General of Mines Safety. Dr. Mandal has 22 years of experience in underground mechanized metal mining. Prior to joining I. I. T. KGP, Dr. Mandal worked in Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL/ICC) as Manager (Mines) and in Sikkim Mining Corporation as Deputy General Manager (Tech) and also as Deputy Director in the National Institute of Miners’ Health, Nagpur (under Ministry of Mines, GoI) conducting and coordinating research on environmental and occupational health of mining community. In India, he has conducted pioneering research on equipment induced human vibration and widely published his research on noise and vibration. He currently teaches underground metal mining and Economics of mining enterprises at IIT Kharagpur.

Kaushik Dey is an Assistant Professor, Department of Mining Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He has obtained B.E. (Mining), M. Tech (Opencast Mining) and Ph.D. (Mining) prior to work in the field of Tunneling and Mining sector for few years. Prior to join I. I. T. Kharagpur, Dr. Kaushik Dey was an Assistant Professor in Department of Mining Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela and at Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. His research area includes excavation of rock by blasting or by mechanical cutting, mining operations, surface mining, whole body vibration etc. He has published around thirty five research papers in different journals apart from many others presented in the national/international conferences.