Intermediate programme
The practical fieldcraft of exploration: mapping, sampling, logging, and recording data that survives.
This is the hands on module of the series. It covers geological mapping with a compass and a notebook, sampling procedures that give a laboratory something representative, core and chip logging to a standard another geologist can use, and the data discipline that determines whether a season's work is still usable in five years. Field safety and logistics are treated seriously, because remote exploration carries real risk and the planning is part of the skill.
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.
Exploration geologists and field technicians, graduates heading to their first field season, and project geologists supervising field crews.
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.
Mining Engineering
Reading structure in the field and in the model, because structure controls where ore sits and where ground fails.
Mining Engineering
Magmatic and metamorphic systems, and the deposits that form within them.
Mining Engineering
Minerals and rocks examined properly: crystal chemistry, optical identification, and what a thin section tells you.
Mining Engineering
Earth materials and processes: rocks, minerals, weathering and the landscape they produce.
Mining Engineering
Sedimentary systems and basin analysis, and the deposits that sit within them.
Mining Engineering
Near surface geophysical methods, from survey design through acquisition to an interpretation that admits its ambiguity.
Mining Engineering
Plate tectonics as an exploration tool: why deposit types cluster in particular settings.
Mining Engineering
The capstone of the series: combining geology, geochemistry, geophysics and structure into one defensible target.