By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, January 23rd, 2012 at 1:52 pm -
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James V. Reyes-Picknell provides expert advice on strategy, processes, process improvement, human and business transformation in his popular webcast Uptime – Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management. This webcast will introduce you to successful practices that will reduce equipment failures, the associated maintenance costs and risks to safety, environmental compliance, and business performance. You will also learn how to transition from reactive to proactive management, and identify
what you can do today to make a change.
The three-day webcast will be held March 6 - 8, 2012, and you can attend from anywhere! For more information or to register, see the course website.
Register before February 7th to receive a 10% Early Bird discount!
By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, January 19th, 2012 at 4:38 pm -
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Rio Tinto’s GDP EduMine Campus provides all graduates free access to EduMine as part of their two-year graduate development program! Designed to assist graduates in the development of technical expertise related to their work, this campus offers a vast array of self-paced e-learning programs specifically for those in the mining sector. This content will be of interest to both technical and functional graduates in all disciplines.
EduMine delivers topical, relevant professional development, training and technology to the worldwide mining community, authored by industry specialists. See the Rio Tinto GDP Campus on EduMine for more information.
By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, January 19th, 2012 at 3:39 pm -
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Alastair Sinclair’s popular short course on Quality Control of Assays is coming up this spring - March 15, 16 - and there’s still time to register for the Early Bird Discount!
In recent years there has been a strong international movement toward knowing and improving the quality of information used in the Mining Industry for resource/reserve estimation. Topics to be discussed in this course include: duplicate data collection, use of standards and blanks, simple statistics in the evaluation of standards, recognition of outliers, binary graphs as an interpretive aid to evaluating duplicate data, and displaying and analyzing data.
For more information or to register, see the course page.
By EduMine, January 6th, 2012 at 11:10 am -
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EduMine Presents Alain Duncan’s short course Interpreting the Financial Statements of a Mining Company in Vancouver, BC. Using the business environment in the mining industry as a relevant context for understanding the financial statements of mining corporations, this course provides the tools to establish a profile of a company’s overall financial status and identifies the attributes that contribute to financial health and flexibility.
This two-day short course will be held 27 - 28 February 2012, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. For more information or to register, see the course page.
By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, January 6th, 2012 at 10:54 am -
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Following the SME 2012 convention in Seattle, Edumine is pleased
to present a short course by Otto Schumacher P.E. and Scott Stebbins P.E. entitled Prefeasibility Cost Estimating and Economic Evaluation. This hands-on workshop course examines the procedures used to produce itemized cost estimates as they are applied to prefeasibility-level mine project analyses, and prepares you to complete a credible evaluation. Spreadsheet-based
modeling, the Sherpa Cost Estimating System and Apex Software
for Economic Evaluation will be demonstrated and compared to manual methods.
This 2.5 day course will be held February 23-25th, 2012 in Seattle, WA. There is still time to register for the early bird discount! For more information or to register, see the course page.
By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, December 29th, 2011 at 2:45 pm -
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Precious Metals Ore Processing is a short course intended for engineers and geologists who need a good understanding of the mineralogy and processing of precious metal ores. The two-day course provides in depth coverage on the nature of precious metal ores, process flow sheets, sampling and analyses, process development, gravity concentration, flotation of precious metals, leaching processes, gold recovery, oxidative pretreatment, and cyanidation and its impact on the environment.
Precious Metals Ore Processing will take place January 19-20th, 2012 in Vancouver, BC - and there are still seats left! For more information or to register, see the course page.
By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, December 14th, 2011 at 10:43 am -
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There’s still room in January’s Valuation of Mineral Projects based on Technical and Financial Modelling course! The 4-day workshop will explore the IC-MinEval and IC-CoalEval software provided by IC-FinEval, determine realistic associated capex and opcosts with reference to CostMine, and demonstrate how financial models
should be set up with a rate of production appropriate to the size
of the resource.
The course will take place January 10 - 13, 2012, in Vancouver, BC. For more information or to register, see the course page.
By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, December 7th, 2011 at 11:55 am -
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Our most popular course is being presented again this January in webcast format! Mining 101 by Dr. Scott Dunbar covers the basic concepts of mining and mineral processing: how mines are found, how they are built, how the ore is processed, how the waste is disposed, how mineral products are marketed, and some ideas
about where mining will be in the future. Parts of the course require some basic numeracy and high school science; however all of the material is taught in a friendly, non-threatening manner.
Attend from anywhere in the world 31 January, 1, 2 February 2012. See the course page for more details!
By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, December 1st, 2011 at 10:18 am -
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Australian Institute of Geoscientists is the leading professional institute exclusively representing geoscientists in all facets of the profession throughout Australia. Now, AIG has partnered with EduMine to assist members to fulfill their Continued Professional Development goals through the AIG EduMine campus. The campus provides AIG members with access to courses and other professional development tools to continuously enhance their skills, when and where they have the opportunity to do so.
See the AIG Campus on EduMine for more information.
By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, November 30th, 2011 at 10:26 am -
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Open Pit Slope Design and Implementation by P.F. Stacey, P.Eng., presents an overview of the process for the design and management of slopes in open pit mines. The course will detail the information required to support a slope design and explain the methods of data collection, and explore the design procedures for bench configurations, inter-ramp slopes and overall slopes,
including the analytical procedures commonly in use. Participants should have a basic grounding in rock mechanics (undergraduate courses) and experience in open pit operations.
EduMine is pleased to present this course in Vancouver, 13 - 14 February 2012. Register before January 13th to receive a 10% early bird discount! For more information and to register, see the course page.
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