Mining Engineering
Mining Law and Environment
Sustainable Mining Practices and Green Technologies
The technologies reducing mining's footprint, assessed on evidence rather than on claims.
- Duration
- 5 days
- Contact hours
- 30
- Level
- Intermediate
- Fee from
- US$1,500
Overview
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.
Who should attend
Technical services and continuous improvement teams, sustainability managers, process and mining engineers, and managers evaluating technology investment.
What you will be able to do
- 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.
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
Energy
- Energy mapping and the largest consumers
- Renewables, storage and hybrid power
- Fleet electrification and trolley assist
Day 2
Water and waste
- Recycling and closed circuits
- Dry stack and thickened tailings
- Waste reprocessing and residual value
Day 3
Efficiency in the process
- Ore sorting and preconcentration
- Comminution energy reduction
- Reagent and consumable reduction
Day 4
Assessment
- Technology readiness, honestly applied
- Life cycle thinking
- Pilots, and why so many stop there
Day 5
The case
- Capital, operating cost and payback
- Risk and licence benefits
- Presenting a case with uncertain benefit
What you leave with
- An opportunity register ranked by cost and maturity.
- A technology assessment for one candidate.
- A business case including non financial benefit.
Dates and fees
| Dates | Location | Format | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 to 27 November 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 30 November 2026 to 4 December 2026 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 7 to 11 December 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | Classroom | US$1,500 |
| 14 to 18 December 2026 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 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.