Upcoming Short Course: Rock Mass Classification for Mine Design

EduMine is pleased to present Doug Milne’s short course Rock Mass Classification for Mine Design in Vancouver this May! The mine geologist usually collects much of the data needed for rock mass classification and design calculations; unfortunately, it is often not in the form an engineer is able to use. This course will give the [...]

New Online Course Translation to Spanish: Estimating the Cost of Mining

Otto Schumacher’s popular online course Estimating the Cost of Mining is now available in Spanish! 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, [...]

Uptime Webcast - Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management

There are still seats available for James V. Reyes-Picknell’s 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 [...]

Establishing and Maintaining a Social Licence to Operate in Mining - Upcoming Webcast

There are devastating consequences when a mining project loses its social licence to operate. Managing a social licence is not a clearly-defined process, yet it is a crucial one that lasts the the life of the project. Robert Boutilier and Ian Thomson’s upcoming webcast, Establishing and Maintaining a Social Licence to Operate in Mining, will [...]

XRF Operator Training for the Mining Industry

Back by popular demand, EduMine is pleased to present the XRF Operator Training webcast! This webcast by Cindy Collins of Innov-X provides delegates with the basic knowledge of XRF theory and applications, as used in mineral exploration and mining, as well as the principles and practices of radiation safety that apply to XRF analyzers. It [...]

Quality Control of Assays Short Course - Early Bird Ends February 15!

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. Using NI43-101 as a guide for standards, Alastair Sinclair’s popular short course on Quality Control of Assays will discuss: duplicate data collection, use of standards and blanks, simple statistics [...]

Upcoming Short Course: Prefeasibility Cost Estimating and Economic Evaluation

There are still a few seats left for Prefeasibility Cost Estimating and Economic Evaluation following the SME 2012 convention in Seattle! 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 [...]

New Online Course - e3Plus: Excellence in Environmental Stewardship

The third of EduMine’s set of online courses developed from PDAC’s e3 Plus: A Framework for Responsible Exploration is now live! The e3 Plus series of courses will help exploration companies continuously improve their social, environmental, and health and safety performance and to comprehensively integrate these three aspects into all of their exploration programs around [...]

Understanding the Risks of Mining Investment

EduMine presents Jack Caldwell’s webcast Mining Investment - Understanding the Risks. This course covers the various phases of a mining project so that you can understand and evaluate the risk of investing. The technical, social, political, and financial factors that make one mining investment better or worse than another, and the risks and rewards of [...]

Learn to Read Between the Lines of a Mining Financial Report

Current market turbulence has increased the risk associated with mining investment, making it more important than ever to properly interpret the financial reports of a mining company. Alain Duncan’s upcoming short course Interpreting the Financial Statements of a Mining Company explains how to examine the profile of a company’s overall financial status and identify the [...]