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Build your knowledge & confidence in the mining business lifecycle & its technical jargon by examining its technical & commercial components spanning exploration, geology, mining methods, production & processing.
Key Learning Objectives
- Understand the make-up of the Australian mining industry
- Discover mine exploration techniques
- Understand mine geology and ore body modelling
- Analyse resource/reserve estimation and statutory requirements: JORC
- Learn about mine planning and mine start-ups
- Analyse mining methods, processes and practices – surface and underground
- Understand mine closures, environmental, safety and legal considerations
- Comprehend corporate governance, industry challenges and the future
About the Course
This course will provide a new or relatively new entrant into the mining industry with a clear understanding of the fundamentals, workings and technical components of mining in general, and its application in the Australian and global industry.
Participants will learn about the technical aspects of mining ranging from exploration methods, geology, resource estimation, surface mining and underground mining to mine planning, mining methods and mine closures.
You will gain a sound understanding for the terminology used within the industry and gain knowledge of the motivation and factors that influence the technical and broader industry personnel whom they interact with on a day-to-day basis.
For those who need to become experts in the mining industry, this course will provide a fundamental background and starting point, and improve communication and negotiation with peers and stakeholders.
Who Will Benefit
This course is not a basic level introductory course. It has a specific techno-commercial focus for technical and business oriented professionals who are either new to the mining industry or experienced in one part but could benefit from a wider perspective
- New employees who need a good basic understanding/overview
- Mid-level employees who have recently transferred within the industry
- Bankers, lawyers, government, consultants, directors and other industry participants
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Testimonials
“An excellent in-depth overview of the mining industry. I learnt about challenges and complexities faced by the mining industry and now understand my client perspectives better.”
Senior Consultant –Strategy, IBM Australia
“Topics covered were extremely relevant and covered in sufficient detail to be of benefit. Material (including CD) is a useful reference to take away. The use of videos are very instructive.”
Finance Manager, BHP
“The course was a great way to get a broad understanding of the mining industry and the work involved in the mining process. Helped to know just how many aspects there are. The instructor was very knowledgeable, easy to listen to and used relevant example to help us gain an understanding.”
Junior Geologist, Ministry of Economic Development
“The fact that it gave an overview of all the important mining information, while not overburdening with useless, too technical info.”
Analyst, Maquarie Bank
Watch Webinar
Exploration, Mining & Processing Fundamentals webinar will give you an overview of the course which will help you build your knowledge & confidence in the mining business lifecycle. Watch Webinar:
Course Outline
Overview of the Australian mining industry
- Overview of the location of different mineral resources in Australia and their general mining methods
- The importance of mining to Australia and its financial impact
- Roles, responsibilities and relationships of technical staff – geologists, engineers, metallurgists, geotechnical engineers
- The who and where of Australian mining and exploration companies
- General mining industry terminology and definitions
- The different stages of a mining project from discovery to completion
Geology
- What’s a mineral?
- What’s a rock?
- Examining the three main types of rocks and their creation
- Exploration techniques
- Mineral exploration – how to select where to explore based on geological and non-geological factors
Orebody modelling
- Overview of orebody modelling, its role in mining – why it’s done and what it achieves
- Limitations of modelling
- Grade estimation
- Geostatistics
- Conditional simulation
Resource/reserve estimation and statutory requirements
- Reporting resources and reserves to the Stock Exchange
- The Joint Ore Reserve Committee (JORC)
Activity: Defining a mineral resource
Surface mining – Open pit mining
- Overview of open pit mining. Why open pit?
- Examining the different surface mining equipment and their uses, including:
- Trucks and shovels
- Excavators
- Front end loaders
- Surface miners
- Trolley assist
- Drilling and blasting
- Case examples of open pit operations
Activity – Productivity calculation of an open pit mine
Examining the open pit mining cycle
- Grade control
- The role of geologists in production
Other surface mining methods
- Strip mining
- Bucket wheel excavators
- Draglines
- Scrapers
- Dredging
- Hydraulic mining
- Materials handling on an open pit mine– conveyors, trains
- Mining method selection – how are different methods selected?
- Case examples of different mining methods
- Environmental issues associated with surface mining
Underground mining
- Examining underground mining methods and layouts
- Cut and fill
- Room and pillar
- Open stoping
- Caving
- Longwall
- Backfill
- Recovery
- Dilution
- Mining method selection
- Underground mine development
- Stope blasting
- Development blasting
- Development blasting
- Remote controlled equipment
- Development blasting
- Ventilation
- Dewatering
- Materials handling:
- Ore passes
- Ground and strata control
- Overview of underground equipment
- Jumbos
- Raise-borers
- Case examples of different mining methods
Activity: Choosing an underground mining method
Mine planning
- Explanation of mine planning and its role in the mining process
- What is ore and what is waste – cutoff grades
- The importance of selectivity
- Pit optimisation:
- Lerchs-Grossman
- Whittle
- Scheduling – selecting the best order in which to extract a deposit
- Measuring the quality of the rock
- Shafts vs. declines
- Stockpiling, blending and storage of minerals
- Contractor vs. owner operator – how and why do you make the decision?
- Infrastructure – FIFO
- Mineral resources vs. ore reserves
- How much to spend on exploration
Activity: Cutoff and scheduling
Mineral processing
- What is mineral processing? What is its role in the mining process?
- Comminution:
- Overview of a comminution circuit
- Crushing, grinding – exposing the mineral
- Mine to mill optimisation
- Why are different ores ground in different ways?
- Examining comminution equipment:
- Jaw crushers
- Cone crushers
- Gyratory crushers
- Ball mills
- Rod mills
- SAG and AG mills
- Wet vs. dry grinding
- Bond Work Index
Mineral processing continued
- Examination of separation methods to extract minerals:
- Gravity concentrators
- Spiral concentrators
- Cyclones
- Flotation
- Hydro-metallurgy
- Pyro-Metallurgy
- Bio-leaching
- Tailings storage facilities:
- Discharge methods
- Upstream, downstream and centreline construction
- Daywall dam
- Case examples of different processing circuits
Industry challenges & the future
- The image of mining
- Sustainability
- Legislation
- Shortage of trade and technical staff
- Remote controlled equipment
- Undersea mining
- Continuous mining equipment
when & where
22 Jun 2023
Live Online Training
19 Oct 2023
Live Online Training
04 Dec 2023
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Still have a question?
Sushil Kunwar
Training Consultant
+61 (0)2 9080 4395
training@informa.com.au