Upcoming Short Course: Open Pit Slope Design and Implementation

By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, November 30th, 2011 at 10:26 am - PERMALINK

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 [...]

Rio Tinto Opens Global EduMine Campus

By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, November 23rd, 2011 at 12:33 pm - PERMALINK

Rio Tinto, a world leader in finding, mining and processing the
earth’s mineral resources, has partnered with EduMine to deliver world class online courses to a global mining audience! All Rio Tinto employees will now be able to register for unrestricted access to EduMine’s large and growing library of online courses for learning, training, certification or [...]

Upcoming Short Course: Precious Metals Ore Processing

By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, November 22nd, 2011 at 12:48 pm - PERMALINK

EduMine is pleased to present Bern Klein’s Precious Metals Ore Processing short course in January, 2012. This course is for anyone concerned with the mineralogy and processing of ores from precious metals. It provides in depth coverage from the nature of precious metal ores, through process flow sheets, sampling and analyses, process development, gravity concentration, [...]

Upcoming Webcasts in Spanish

By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, November 17th, 2011 at 3:53 pm - PERMALINK

There’s still time to register for one of our upcoming Spanish webcasts!
November 21, 22, 23: Introducción a la Minería is an accessible introductory course by Dr. Scott Dunbar, that covers the basic concepts of mining and mineral processing: how mines are found
and built, how ore is processed, how waste is disposed, how
mineral products are marketed, [...]

Energy Conservation through Mine-Mill Integration: Live Webcast

By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, November 16th, 2011 at 11:25 am - PERMALINK

There’s still time to register for Dr. Andrew Bamber’s Energy Conservation through Mine-Mill Integration webcast. This course describes a comprehensive range of technologies and applications
in the field of mine-mill integration, and their respective benefits to the mine developer and operator. The impacts of successful mine-mill integration include: increased ore extraction, improved metal recoveries, reduced energy [...]

Valuation of Mineral Projects based on Technical and Financial Modelling Short Course

By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, November 10th, 2011 at 10:38 am - PERMALINK

Professor Dennis Buchanan’s Valuation of Mineral Projects course aims to enhance an understanding of the business of mining. These workshop sessions will use the IC-MinEval and IC-CoalEval software provided by IC-FinEval: Excel™-based spreadsheet programmes
that automate the stages of model production for a wide range of mineral projects. Realistic associated capex and opcosts are determined with [...]

New Dates: Interpreting Financial Statements Short Course

By Jennifer Lyseng - EduMine Editor, November 4th, 2011 at 4:44 pm - PERMALINK

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 [...]