Water Management in Mining Operations

Mines are either short of water or drowning in it, often in the same year. Managing it properly starts with a site water balance accounting for every input and output, and most operations do not have one that closes. This week builds that balance, then works through dewatering, storage, treatment and discharge, and the quality obligations attached to each. Climate variability is treated as a design condition rather than an excuse.

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.

• Build a site water balance that closes.
• Plan dewatering for pit or underground operations.
• Specify storage and containment for the design event.
• Select treatment proportionate to the discharge obligation.
• Manage water quality and reporting against licence conditions.

Environmental and water managers, mine planners and hydrogeologists, process engineers handling water circuits, and compliance staff.

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.

• A site water balance for one operation.
• A storage and containment adequacy check.
• A water quality monitoring and reporting plan.

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.