Webcast: Mining 101

The second ever edition of EduMine’s Mining 101 Webcast will be taking place next week! This webcast version of Dr. Scott Dunbar’s popular course applies to anyone involved in the mining industry, from investors, accountants and suppliers to geologists, chemists and metallurgists. Dunbar covers the basics of ore deposits, mineral processing, mine wastes and more.

Take a look at the full course description for more details.

New Online Course: Understanding Contouring

EduMine presents a new online course to help you understand, verify and select contouring methods.

Contouring of irregular spatial data by hand has been used by geoscientists for many decades. Contouring using a computer is relatively new and has become more widely used in the earth sciences only in the last 20 years. The availability of inexpensive microcomputer hardware and software makes the use of a computer for contouring affordable for nearly everyone.

Gridding and contouring software has become flexible enough to satisfy nearly all needs for contouring with speed and convenience. Computer contouring is not perfect, so it is necessary to constantly be on guard and check results for artifacts and make sure the contour results are representative of the data. This course will help build awareness of what to watch for when using each contour method, when a method is most suitable, and when it is not.

For more information, see the course introduction page.

New Webcast: Mine Project Economics

From March 1-3, Dr. Scott Dunbar will be presenting a webcast of Mine Project Economics by popular demand, allowing you to attend from the convenience of your own home or office.

This course deals with the fundamental aspects of the valuation of mining projects with particular emphasis on the models used for valuation, uncertainties in the input to these models, and the role of the models in decision-making. Several examples and exercises are used to illustrate the concepts. Register today!

For more information or to register, see the course description.

MUST, UBC and EduMine in Mongolia

EduMine is collaborating with the School of Mining Engineering at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) in Ulaanbaatar and the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver to provide online professional development in mining to MUST students. The platform for provision of professional development is the Certificate in Mining Studies (CMS) … a continuing education initiative developed jointly by UBC and EduMine and comprising an integration of short courses and online courses in various mining streams. The CMS currently serves a student body of more than 150 mining professionals around the world.

For more information, see the MUST campus on EduMine.

The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) and EduMine Actively Explore Joint Online Learning Program

The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) has signed a letter of intent to move forward with a working relationship with EduMine of Vancouver, B.C., Canada (www.edumine.com). SME is the world’s premiere professional society for the worldwide mining and minerals community with more than 12,500 members.

SME will launch the SME Tech Online Learning program of organic materials which will include an extensive library of online courses, webcast presentations, and social media followings for information exchange.

For more information, see the official press release.

New Personal Notes Feature In EduMine Online Courses - Try It Today!

EduMine has developed a new feature for online courses!

Forget pencils and paper, now you can write notes as you study, right inside your EduMine course. Your personal notes will be specific to each session and course, and available whenever you return to the courses. They can also be shared with other users. Jump to different parts of the course - even leave the course and return - and your notes will be right where you left them. As long as you’re enrolled in EduMine, you can edit and view your notes, making EduMine online courses even more applicable to your reference and professional development needs.

Registered for certification? Print your notes right alongside your course material to improve your understanding and apply the course theory to your own experience. Do you speak English as a second language? Use the Notes field to translate English terms and course material into a language more applicable to you. If you’re currently registered in EduMine, start exploring the Notes function today! In any EduMine course, the Show/Hide Notes button now appears in the left-hand menu. Click, and start adding value to your EduMine experience.

Not registered? Register now!

New Online Course: Estimating the Cost of Mining

If you are an exploration geologist, a mining engineer, a metallurgist, a mine accountant, or a practitioner of any of a number of other mining-related specialties, at some time you will be asked to do a cost estimate. Mining is an economic endeavor, and, after safety, the cost of mining and its related processes is one of the most important considerations in that endeavor.

This course introduces you to the methodologies of mining cost estimating, and prepares you to complete a credible estimate. The course focuses on itemized cost estimating methods in the context of a mine plan. It covers the costs of excavating, loading, hauling, drilling and auxiliary equipment as well as the costs of supply, personnel, stripping and other requirements.

For more information, take a look at the course introduction page.

Still a few spaces left in the Risk Based Decision Making webcast!

The webcast Risk Based Decision Making in Mining still has a few open spaces left! Join Franco and Cesar Oboni on February 9, 10, and 11th as they explore risk and crisis management. At only two and a half hours per session, this course provides a thorough exploration of risk from leading professionals in the field without disrupting your regular workday.

For more information or to register, see the course description.

Online Course: Managerial Accounting in Mining

An exciting addition to EduMine’s online course library is now available - Craig Emby’s “Managerial Accounting in Mining.”

The overall discipline of accounting is usually divided into two distinct sub-disciplines - financial accounting and managerial accounting. While the two are similar in that they both generate and use financial information, they do so in very different ways for very different purposes.

Managerial accounting is concerned with generating and analyzing internal accounting information as a tool for helping managers make business decisions. This focus means that managerial accounting is oriented to the future. It may make use of information about the past performance of the organization, in fact it may be information generated by the financial accounting system, but that information’s primary value is in helping managers make decisions about future courses of action that an entity should undertake.

Interested? See the course introduction page to read the entire course outline and learn about the author.

New Webcast: Risk Based Decision Making In Mining

This course introduces a unified, transparent approach to risk and crisis management and explores the link between the so-called financial and non financial risks. It covers the evolution of qualitative and quantitative approaches in risk assessment, how to present risks in a clear and transparent way, and how to use your risk management program to get the most value for you and your company. It also presents crisis management, prediction of the depth and duration of economic turmoil, and how companies should react when faced with a crisis.

Because this course is being presented as a webcast, you can attend from anywhere with a computer and an internet connection! Frequently, we have participants in our webcasts from all over the world. To learn more or to register, see the course description.