MEA Program Leader – Mining Engineering
(MEA Node: University of Adelaide, School of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering)

Email: e.chanda@mea.edu.au
Phone: 08 8303 7410

Qualifications

B.E. in Mining Engineering, University of Zambia, 1983
M.Eng (Engineer of Mines)  in Mining Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA, 1986
Dr.-Ing in Mining Engineering (Technical University of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, 1993)

Employment

1983 – 84 Assistant Mining Engineer, Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines
1986 – 87 Lecturer Mining Engineering, University of Zambia.
1987 – 88 Senior Mining Engineer, MINDECO Small Mines, Ltd, Zambia.
1993 – 93 Assistant Dean, School of Mines, University of Zambia
1993 – 98 Superintendent Mine Planning, Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines Limited.
1998 – present Senior Lecturer in Mining Engineering Curtin University of Technology, WA School of Mines
2004 – 2008 MCA Lecturer, Curtin University of Technology, WA School of Mines
2005 – present Program Leader Mining Education Australia

Professional Societies

Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy, Member
American Institute of Mining Engineers, Member

Teaching Areas

Operations Research
Surface  Mining
Resource Estimation & Mine Geology
Underground Mine Design
Mining Systems Engineering
Open Pit Mine Planning and Design

Research Interests

Underground Haulage Systems
Modelling and Optimisation of Mining Systems
Novel Mining Methods

Selected Recent Publications

Chanda, E K, Kabibwa, M S, 1996. The development of computer aided underground mine planning at
Nkana Division of ZCCM Limited, in Proceedings 26th International Symposium on Application of
Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals Industry, 1996, pp 189-195 (SME of AIME: New
York).
Chanda, E K , Spencer, E, 1999. Optimal resource utilisation in open pit design – A case study. Proceedings
29th International Symposium on Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals
Industry, 359-366, (Society of Min, Met & Exploration: Littleton, Colorado).
Chanda, E.K., Kocken, A,2001: Effects of varying production capacity on NPV and resource utilisation in
open pit optimisation- gold mining case studies, Strategic Mine Planning Conference, AusIMM/Whittle,
Perth, March, p 113-120
Ricciardone, J., Chanda, E. K, 2001. Optimising life of mine production schedules in multiple open     pit
mining operations: a study of effects of production constraints on NPV, Mineral Resources Engineering,
Vol. 10, No. 3, Septermber, 301-314.
Chanda, E K, Corbett, C J, 2003. Underground mining of shallow dipping ore bodies in Australia:
Mechanised updip stoping versus transverse retreat stoping, Proc. 12th International Symposium on  Mine
Planning and Equipment Selection (MPES) , 23-25 April, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, CD.
Chanda, E K, 2004. Network linear programming optimisation of an integrated mining and
metallurgical complex, in Proceedings – Ore body Modelling and Strategic Mine Planning, (Editor: R.
Dimitrakopoulos), Perth, WA, 22 -24 November, p13 – 19 (AusIMM: Melbourne).
Zhongchen, L, Chanda, E.K., 2006. Computer simulation of an underground loader-truck haulage
system, Mine Machine Productivity 2006, Perth, Western Australia.