By EduMine, April 27th, 2010 at 8:53 am -
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Environmentally-sensitive mining practice involves designing, constructing, operating, closing, and monitoring mines in a manner that meets the environmental, economic, and social needs of present and future generations.
This course is an overview of metals and related “semi-metals” that are mined or emitted as by-products of mining. Topics discussed will include aquatic ecosystems, ARD, toxicity, exposure pathways, [...]
By EduMine, April 27th, 2010 at 8:47 am -
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Phelps Dodge has created a campus page with EduMine for employees of the Sierrita mine, a large, low grade, porphyry Copper and Molybdenum deposit in Arizona, USA. Sierrita personnel will now have unrestricted access to the full range of EduMine resources for technical reference and self-learning.
Do you think your mine site would benefit from an [...]
By EduMine, April 26th, 2010 at 9:13 am -
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Frontier s.p.r.l. is a copper mine, located near the town of KISHIBA, in the territory of SAKANIA and the Province of KATANGA in the DRC. It is within 2 km of the Zambian border, and the paved Highway that parallels it. The mine is roughly 35 kilometres from the city of Ndola, Zambia.
First Quantum Minerals [...]
By EduMine, April 23rd, 2010 at 2:26 pm -
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AMEC has opened a campus on EduMine to provide for the ongoing professional development of its employees, in line with their goal to create a successful, sustainable company for the long term. Take a look at their campus here, and consider the benefits to your company of creating your own campus page with EduMine!
By EduMine, April 23rd, 2010 at 10:19 am -
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A recording of the Risk Based Decision Making in Mining webcast that took place in February is now available online. Now you can watch the entire six and a half hours of course material, including any questions, answers and discussion that took place with the original audience and the presenter, Franco Oboni.
This course introduces a [...]
By EduMine, April 22nd, 2010 at 1:46 pm -
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EduMine has published its first Portuguese online course. Scott Dunbar’s Introduction to Mining and Mineral Processing is one of EduMine’s most popular English courses, and now our Brazilian and Portuguese subscribers will be able to take part as well with our translated version: Introdução a Mineração e Processamento Mineral.
This course provides a non-technical introduction to [...]
By EduMine, April 22nd, 2010 at 11:12 am -
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Whatever your reasons - hedging, speculating or arbitrage - this course will introduce you to methods with which you can make your own forecasts about the direction of future commodity prices.
The course deals with fundamental and quantitative analytical methods and basic statistical methods, and is presented in a light, easy-to-read format. For more information about [...]