The Portfolio assessment items have been designed to strengthen your understanding of Australian mining engineering systems and legislation. You will need to carefully review the material provided in the textbooks and on the unit's Moodle website to complete the pieces of formative assessment. In order to achieve this you will need to:

• Review the detailed formative assessment projects found on the unit's Moodle website;
• Review the relevant literature (textbooks, journal articles, websites, etc) to gain a broad understanding of mining engineering systems and legislation;
• Research the primary literature to locate relevant current primary sources (peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, including those written in the last 3 years); and
• Complete the submissions in your own words making effective use of and recording the sources of all primary information gained.

The Overall Assessment Item for this unit will be in form of a Portfolio. The Portfolio is made up of three (3) in-term assignments and weekly Tutorial tasks submitted as a workbook. Each assignment is to be submitted during the term on the specified date and time in the Unit's Schedule. Weekly Tutorial workbook tasks are to be submitted at the time of Portfolio submission during the Review/Exam week.

• The Portfolio will comprise a collection of ALL assignments and ALL Tutorial workbooks completed throughout the term.
• The first assignment (30% of marks) will test your knowledge and skills on Australian Resources, Resource Geology and Australian Mining Legislative requirements, the second assignment (30% of marks) your knowledge and skills in mining engineering operations, processing, the mining cycle and legislation and the third assignment (30% of marks) will test your knowledge and skills gained after a field excursion to a local mining area/site and/or mining operations centre.
• The weekly Tutorial Workbook (10% of marks) captures your personal notes and data.  Workbook entries will demonstrate evidence of an individual's contribution to weekly Tutorial tasks related to discussions. This includes a brief overview or synopsis of talks and subsequent discussions from invited industry professionals. Tutorial Workbook entries must demonstrate that a graduate-level standard of knowledge and skills has been achieved.

• Your Portfolio must also demonstrate that you have attained the unit's learning outcomes.
• It is highly recommended you check the written English language of all your in-term assessable items, and that of your Portfolio, prior to submission. Poorly written English language communication and expression will result in the loss of marks.
• Your Portfolio should be submitted in an electronic format using either MS Word or Adobe PDF file format.  All files are to be fully named i.e. Student Names_Assignment Number_Unit Code. Failure to undertake this naming protocol will result in work needing to be resubmitted.  

All submissions are processed through the similarity detection software (called Turnitin) in Moodle. Ensure that all of your submissions for assessment are your own work and is original, in line with the University's rules and requirements.

Your Portfolio should clearly demonstrate that by participating in all team and individual activities you have attained a sound level of individual achievement for all of the unit's learning outcomes.