Mining Law and Environmental Legislation

Mineral rights and environmental authorisation are granted under different regimes by different authorities, and a project holding one without the other holds nothing. This week covers tenure from prospecting through to mining right, the environmental authorisation process running alongside it, and the obligations that attach once production starts. It follows the sequence a project actually takes, so the dependencies between the two are visible rather than theoretical.

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.

• Follow mineral tenure from prospecting to mining right.
• Understand the environmental authorisation sequence and its timing.
• Identify the ongoing obligations attaching to each instrument.
• Anticipate where tenure and environmental approval collide.
• Manage financial provision for rehabilitation and closure.

Legal counsel and commercial managers, environmental managers and consultants, project and permitting managers, and government officers administering mineral law.

Short 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.

• Your own material

  Exercises run on situations delegates bring, not on a case study written for a different organisation in a different decade.

• A capped cohort

  Small enough that everybody is asked something. Executive programmes are capped tighter still.

• Practice under scrutiny

  The difficult conversation, the challenged assumption, the decision defended out loud. Judgement is not built by watching.

• Something to take back

  Each day ends with a thing you can use on Monday rather than a slide deck you will not reopen.

• A tenure and authorisation map for one project.
• An obligations schedule running from grant to closure.
• A financial provision review.

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.