Foundation programme
Orientation to the minerals industry: the commodities, the companies, the value chain and the terms.
This is the entry point of the exploration technology series and assumes nothing. It covers which minerals matter and why, how a deposit becomes a mine and a mine becomes a product, and who the participants are, from juniors through majors to traders and smelters. Terminology is built deliberately, since the rest of the series depends on it, and the commodity cycle is explained because everything in this industry is eventually explained by it.
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.
Entrants to the minerals sector, support and corporate staff at exploration and mining companies, and professionals moving across from other industries.
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
How an exploration programme narrows a region to a target, and a target to a drill hole.
Mining Engineering
Reading structure in the field and in the model, because structure controls where ore sits and where ground fails.
Mining Engineering
The practical fieldcraft of exploration: mapping, sampling, logging, and recording data that survives.
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.