Mining Engineering
Mining Law and Environment
Mining Law and Environmental Legislation
Mineral tenure, licensing and environmental obligation, and how the two bodies of law constrain each other.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Intermediate
- Fee from
- On enquiry
Overview
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.
Who should attend
Legal counsel and commercial managers, environmental managers and consultants, project and permitting managers, and government officers administering mineral law.
What you will be able to do
- 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.
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
Mineral tenure
- Ownership of minerals and the state's role
- Prospecting, exploration and mining instruments
- Transfer, cession and encumbrance
- Surface rights against mineral rights
Day 2
Environmental authorisation
- Impact assessment and its stages
- Public participation and objection
- Conditions of approval, and appeal
Day 3
Water and waste
- Water use authorisation
- Residue deposits and waste classification
- Discharge and monitoring obligations
Day 4
Ongoing duties
- Reporting, amendment and variation
- Financial provision for rehabilitation
- Non compliance, suspension and cancellation
Day 5
Closure
- Closure planning as a legal obligation
- Relinquishment and residual liability
- What survives the end of the right
What you leave with
- A tenure and authorisation map for one project.
- An obligations schedule running from grant to closure.
- A financial provision review.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Windhoek, Namibia | Classroom | R15,000 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Maseru, Lesotho | Classroom | R15,000 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Cairo, Egypt | Classroom | US$1,500 |
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.