Mining Engineering
Mining Operations
Mining Project Management
Running a mining project through study, execution and handover, where the schedule meets geology and weather.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Intermediate
- Fee from
- On enquiry
Overview
Mining projects fail in recognisable ways: a scope that grew between studies, a schedule built backwards from a board commitment, and a handover to operations that nobody planned. This week is project management set in that reality. It covers the stage gate structure the industry uses, estimating and scheduling against uncertain ground, contracting strategy, and the commissioning and ramp up where most of the value is actually won or lost.
Who should attend
Project and study managers, engineering and construction managers, planners and cost engineers, and operations managers receiving a project.
What you will be able to do
- Run a project through a stage gate process without losing the gate.
- Build a schedule and estimate that survive contact with the ground.
- Choose a contracting strategy suited to the risk being carried.
- Control scope, cost and change over a long duration.
- Plan commissioning and ramp up from the start rather than at the end.
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
Structure
- Stage gates, and the decision each one makes
- Governance, sponsor and steering
- Front end loading, and what skipping it costs
Day 2
Estimating and scheduling
- Estimate classes and accuracy
- Schedule development and critical path
- Contingency, and the difference between it and padding
- Weather, access and ground condition allowances
Day 3
Contracting
- Lump sum, reimbursable and target cost
- Owner's team against engineering contractor
- Claims and variations, and how they start
Day 4
Control
- Earned value in a mining context
- Change control that holds
- Reporting that tells the sponsor something
Day 5
Into operation
- Commissioning planning and systems completion
- Ramp up curves and realistic expectations
- Handover, punch list and operational readiness
What you leave with
- A stage gate deliverables list for your current project.
- A risk register with owners and quantified contingency.
- A commissioning and handover plan.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Nicosia, Cyprus | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Gaborone, Botswana | Classroom | R15,000 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 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.