Intermediate programme
Drill and blast from first principles: energy, fragmentation, and getting the result you designed.
Blasting is the first step in comminution and the cheapest place to break rock, which is why poor fragmentation costs twice, once in loading and again in the mill. This week covers explosive behaviour, blast design geometry, initiation and timing, and the measurement that tells you whether a design worked. Safety and ground vibration run through it rather than sitting in a separate session, because that is how they arise in practice.
It runs 7 times over the published calendar, in 6 cities and live online. Every date is the same programme with the same content and the same certificate.
Drill and blast engineers, mining engineers and supervisors, shotfirers and blasting technicians, and quarry managers.
This is an intermediate level programme. It assumes you are working in or moving into the area it covers, and it is built around your own material rather than a case study. If you are unsure, ask an advisor before registering rather than after.
Ask an advisorShort input, then work. Across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each, the balance sits deliberately with the second: a programme where the trainer talks for six hours produces notes rather than capability.
Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.
Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.
The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.
Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.
A GATI certificate recording what you 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, which is what makes it worth holding. It records participation. This site will not imply one it does not have.
Register on a published date, or tell an advisor what you need and they will come back with something specific rather than a brochure.
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The roles, routes and qualifications in mining, for people choosing or redirecting a career in it.
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The social licence in practice: agreements, grievances and benefits that communities regard as real.
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Finding mining's hazards before they find you, and managing the ones that can kill.
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Building a compliance system that covers mining's overlapping legal obligations without drowning in them.
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Running a mining project through study, execution and handover, where the schedule meets geology and weather.
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Returning disturbed land to a stable, agreed end use, and funding it before the revenue stops.
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Managing mine water as a balance: what comes in, what is used, what is stored, and what has to leave.
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A compressed general management programme for mining professionals moving beyond a technical role.