Intermediate programme
Turning drill data into a resource estimate, and a resource into a reserve that survives review.
A resource estimate is a model of something nobody has seen, built from a tiny sample of it, and every number downstream depends on it. This week covers the process end to end: data validation, geological domaining, compositing, variography, estimation by the common methods, and classification. Reserve conversion follows, where modifying factors and a mine plan turn a resource into something that can be reported and financed. Reconciliation against production runs through it as the honest test.
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.
Resource and mine geologists, mining engineers working with block models, technical services managers, and reviewers and auditors of estimates.
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
Minerals and rocks examined properly: crystal chemistry, optical identification, and what a thin section tells you.
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.