Mining Engineering
Mining Operations
Mining for Non-Miners
The whole mining cycle for people who fund, supply, regulate or report on it without working underground.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Foundation
- Fee from
- On enquiry
Overview
Mining is argued about by far more people than understand it. This week builds the picture end to end, from the geology that puts an orebody somewhere to the closure plan that outlives the pit, in plain language and against real operations rather than theory. It is aimed squarely at people who have to make decisions about mining without having come up through it, and it does not patronise them.
Who should attend
Bankers, analysts and investors, lawyers and regulators, suppliers and contractors, government officers, and corporate staff in finance, HR, procurement and communications at mining companies.
What you will be able to do
- Follow the mining cycle from exploration through to closure.
- Tell open pit from underground work, and know why each is chosen.
- Read the basic vocabulary of grade, tonnage, recovery and cut off.
- Understand where the money goes and where the risk actually sits.
- Ask a technical team a question that gets a useful answer.
How it is taught
Short input, then work, across 5 days of roughly 6 teaching hours each. Exercises run on situations delegates bring rather than on a case study written for a different organisation. Cohorts are capped so that everybody is asked something.
Available as classroom, live online, in house.
Programme outline
Day 1
Where orebodies come from
- Ore, waste, and what makes rock worth moving
- Deposit types in one pass
- Exploration, and why most of it finds nothing
Day 2
Getting it out
- Open pit: benches, ramps and strip ratio
- Underground: access, stoping and ground support
- Drill, blast, load and haul
Day 3
Making it saleable
- Crushing, grinding and liberation
- Separation and concentration
- Recovery, and why it is never a hundred
Day 4
The business
- Capital and operating cost, and the difference between them
- Grade, cut off, and the reserve that follows from price
- Licence, community, and the cost of losing either
Day 5
The end
- Tailings and waste rock
- Rehabilitation and closure liability
- What a mine leaves behind
What you leave with
- A working vocabulary that survives a meeting with engineers.
- A map of the cycle with the decision points marked.
- A short list of the questions worth asking about any project.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Durban, South Africa | Classroom | R15,000 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Cape Town, South Africa | Classroom | R15,000 |
Fees are per delegate and cover tuition, all programme materials and the certificate. Travel, accommodation and visas are arranged by the delegate. Registration closes two weeks before a programme starts.
Certificate
A GATI certificate recording what was 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.
It records participation. and GATI does not claim one it does not hold.