Intermediate programme
Minerals and rocks examined properly: crystal chemistry, optical identification, and what a thin section tells you.
Where the physical geology module identifies rocks in the hand, this one looks through them. It covers crystal chemistry and the silicate structures, systematic mineralogy of the groups that matter in exploration, and optical mineralogy under the petrographic microscope. Thin section work takes the second half, building to interpretation: texture and mineral assemblage as a record of the conditions a rock formed under, and the alteration that points toward ore.
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 and mine geologists, laboratory and core shed staff, geometallurgists, and geoscience students.
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
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
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.