Mining Engineering
Mining Operations
5-Day Mini MBA for the Mining Industry
A compressed general management programme for mining professionals moving beyond a technical role.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Executive
- Fee from
- On enquiry
Overview
Engineers and geologists are promoted for being good at engineering and geology, then spend their days on budgets, people and board papers. This week covers the commercial and managerial ground they were never taught, set entirely in mining: the strategy of a cyclical commodity business, the financial statements of a mining company, how capital is allocated between competing pits, and the leadership problem of running crews across shifts and contractors.
Who should attend
Mine managers and superintendents, senior engineers and geologists stepping into management, technical services leads, and functional heads at operating mines.
What you will be able to do
- Read a mining company's accounts and know what matters in them.
- Build and defend a budget and a capital request.
- Apply strategy tools to a cyclical, price taking business.
- Allocate scarce capital between competing operational cases.
- Lead a technical workforce across shifts and contractors.
How it is taught
Short input, then work, across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each. Exercises run on situations delegates bring rather than on a case study written for a different organisation. Cohorts are capped so that everybody is asked something.
Available as classroom, in house.
Programme outline
Day 1
The industry
- Commodity cycles and price taking
- Cost curves, and where you sit on one
- Competitive position in a business with no pricing power
Day 2
Finance
- Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow
- All in sustaining cost, and the arguments about it
- Budgeting, variance and forecasting
Day 3
Capital
- Building an investment case
- Ranking projects when there is not enough money
- Post investment review, and why it is usually skipped
Day 4
Operations and people
- Productivity, and the levers that actually move it
- Contractor management
- Leading across shifts, and the handover problem
Day 5
Stakeholders
- Regulators, communities and investors
- Explaining a technical decision to a non technical board
- Reputation, and how quickly it is spent
What you leave with
- A capital request written to the standard your board expects.
- A strategic review of your own operation.
- A personal development plan for the move into management.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Durban, South Africa | Classroom | R15,000 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Lagos, Nigeria | Classroom | US$1,500 |
Fees are per delegate and cover tuition, all programme materials and the certificate. Travel, accommodation and visas are arranged by the delegate. Registration closes two weeks before a programme starts.
Certificate
A GATI certificate recording what was attended, issued after the programme has run and attendance has been taken. Attending at least 80 per cent of the days earns a certificate of completion; attending less earns a certificate of attendance stating exactly what was attended. Every certificate carries a code that anybody can check against GATI's own record.
It records participation. and GATI does not claim one it does not hold.