Sustainable Mining Practices and Green Technologies

Every vendor at a mining conference has a green technology, and some of them work. This week separates the two, covering energy, water, waste and materials efficiency with attention to what has been deployed at scale and what remains a pilot. Dry stack tailings, electrified fleets, sensor based ore sorting, water recycling and waste reprocessing are each assessed on cost, maturity, and the conditions under which they make sense.

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.

• Assess a technology on maturity and evidence rather than claim.
• Identify energy, water and waste reduction opportunities in your operation.
• Evaluate tailings alternatives on cost and risk.
• Build a business case where the benefit is partly non financial.
• Avoid overstating environmental performance.

Technical services and continuous improvement teams, sustainability managers, process and mining engineers, and managers evaluating technology investment.

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.

• An opportunity register ranked by cost and maturity.
• A technology assessment for one candidate.
• A business case including non financial benefit.

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.