Foundation programme
The surface chemistry behind froth flotation, and what it means for reagents, water and recovery.
Flotation separates minerals on surface properties, so almost every recovery problem is a chemistry problem presenting as an operational one. This week builds the chemistry from the surface up: wettability and contact angle, the electrical double layer, how a collector attaches to a mineral and why it sometimes attaches to the wrong one. Reagent selection, water chemistry and pH control follow from that, and the troubleshooting session works real plant symptoms backwards to their chemical cause.
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.
Metallurgists and process engineers, plant chemists and laboratory staff, flotation operators and supervisors, and reagent technical representatives.
This is a foundation 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.
Mining Engineering
Designing metallurgical testwork that answers the question, and reading results without over reading them.
Mining Engineering
How an exploration programme narrows a region to a target, and a target to a drill hole.
Mining Engineering
How a mining project is valued and funded, and why so many never reach production.
Mining Engineering
Orientation to the minerals industry: the commodities, the companies, the value chain and the terms.
Mining Engineering
The whole mining cycle for people who fund, supply, regulate or report on it without working underground.
Mining Engineering
A compressed general management programme for mining professionals moving beyond a technical role.
Mining Engineering
Reading structure in the field and in the model, because structure controls where ore sits and where ground fails.
Mining Engineering
Why trained people take shortcuts underground, and what actually changes it.