JKTech Partners With EduMine To Deliver World Class Online Courses To A Global Mining Audience

By EduMine, November 30th, 2010 at 10:39 am - PERMALINK

JKTech, the technology transfer company for the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre and the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at The University of Queensland, has opened a campus with EduMine.
JKTech delivers world class solutions to the mining industry by providing products and services in ore characterisation and process improvement within all areas of the life-of-mine cycle [...]

New Online Course: Practical Mineral Processing

By EduMine, November 29th, 2010 at 3:57 pm - PERMALINK

EduMine has launched a new course from JK Tech: Practical Mineral Processing. This is a practical course in mineral processing, designed for engineers, technicians, operators, support staff and others working in the mineral processing industry but with no prior training in this area. The course reviews fundamental principles, conventions and terminology, and provides a broad [...]

New Spanish Online Course: Predicción del Drenaje Ácido de Roca

By EduMine, November 29th, 2010 at 12:38 pm - PERMALINK

The English version of the Acid Rock Drainage Prediction course is one of EduMine’s oldest and most popular courses, recently updated to ensure that it continues to be as useful to EduMine users as it was when it was created. Now, this excellent, thorough course that covers everything from acid rock drainage chemistry, to sampling, [...]

Quality Control Of Assays Webcast Starts November 29th!

By EduMine, November 22nd, 2010 at 10:57 am - PERMALINK

EduMine’s brand new three-day webcast, Quality Control of Assays, starts on November 29th. Don’t miss this valuable course on how to meet the assay quality requirements of Canada’s National Instrument 43-101.
Presenter Dr. Alastair Sinclair is presently Professor Emeritus in geological engineering at the University of British Columbia where he has taught courses for 35 years [...]

Freeport-McMoRan Provides Employees With EduMine Campus

By EduMine, November 19th, 2010 at 10:49 am - PERMALINK

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. is one of the world’s leading producers of copper. The company is a world leader in the production of molybdenum, and the largest producer of molybdenum-based chemicals and continuous-cast copper rod. The company employs 15,000 people worldwide, and has mines and processing facilities in North and South America, Europe and [...]

Short Course: Open Pit Slope Design and Implemetation

By EduMine, November 18th, 2010 at 10:37 am - PERMALINK

The EduMine short course Open Pit Slope Design and Implementation by P.F. Stacey is being held this Monday and Tuesday (Nov. 22-23) in Vancouver.
This course presents an overview of the process for the design and management of slopes in open pit mines. Starting with a description of the information required to support a slope design [...]

New Online Course: Global Acid Rock Drainage

By EduMine, November 17th, 2010 at 2:33 pm - PERMALINK

EduMine is pleased to announce a brand new online course, authored by The International Network for Acid Prevention: Global Acid Rock Drainage.
Acid drainage is one of the most serious and potentially enduring environmental problems for the mining industry. Left unchecked, it can result in such long-term water quality impacts that it could well be this [...]

Still spots left in Mineral Reserves Estimation - starts tomorrow!

By EduMine, November 17th, 2010 at 9:49 am - PERMALINK

There is still space left in the two-day short course Mineral Reserves Estimation that starts tomorrow, November 18.
This short course will consider the detailed methodology of various resource/reserve estimation methods that are in common use in the Mining Industry. Emphasis will be on general procedures, inherent assumptions, and advantages and limitations of each of [...]

New Webcast: Quality Control of Assays

By EduMine, November 12th, 2010 at 12:28 pm - PERMALINK

EduMine is introducing a brand new webcast to be held November 29, 30, and December 1: Quality Control of Assays, by Dr. Alastair Sinclair.
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. In Canada, this culminated recently with [...]

Online Course Revised: Common Rocks, Minerals and Ores

By EduMine, November 10th, 2010 at 1:39 pm - PERMALINK

The online course Common Rocks Minerals and Ores has been revised to include an entirely new section on Strategic and Industrial Ore Minerals.
Common Rocks, Minerals and Ores is a short (non-certification) course and reference for beginners in geology and mineral exploration and for others who require the basics of rock and mineral identification. It [...]