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The final course in the Mine Ventilation online series by Dr. Rick Brake is now live. The five Mine Ventilation courses cover everything from hazard awareness to design to operations, and constitute a comprehensive 84-hour program, written for practicing professionals. Dr. Brake teaches from the understanding that getting the right amount of fresh air to the workplace is the single most important success factor in meeting the quality and quantity requirements of an efficient, safe and healthy underground mining operation.

Mine Ventilation 5 - Operations covers monitoring and auditing of operations, and health and safety issues such as noise, temperature, humidity and sources of heat. To learn more, see the course introduction page.

To link to the other ventilation courses in this series, please look in the Mining Methods - Mine Planning section of our online course page.

This EduMine course will introduce participants to the principles of mine haul road design, from road building material selection and characterisation, road-user (truck and traffic) requirements, through to performance benchmarking and evaluation as a basis for road maintenance management decision making.

These skills will enable participants to evaluate their current haul road systems, recognise operational inefficiencies and implement continuous improvement strategies to reduce cost per ton hauled across the mine road network and improve road performance on a day-to-day operational basis.

For more information, please see the Course Introduction page.

Stantec works with some of the world’s largest mining companies and provides the industry with a full suite of services and solutions. They are leaders in underground mine engineering and related technologies, serving the largest, deepest, and most technically challenging mines in the world. Recently, Stantec has decided to open a professional development campus on EduMine, providing their employees with a wealth of research and development opportunities. Stantec workers will have access to EduMine’s vast library of online courses, helping to ensure Stantec’s success in the months and years to come.

To see Stantec’s EduMine Campus, click here.

Immediately following his Quality Control of Assays course, Alastair Sinclair will be presenting Mineral Reserves Estimation, October 28-29. This course is an excellent complement to Quality Control of Assays, rounding out an excellent week of professional development.

This short course will consider the detailed methodology of various resource/reserve estimation methods that are in common use in the Mining Industry. Emphasis will be on general procedures, inherent assumptions, and advantages and limitations of each of the principal methods. Methods to be discussed include: polygonal estimation, nearest neighbour estimation triangular estimation, contour estimation, method of sections (plans) estimation, inverse distance estimation and ordinary kriging estimation. All of these estimation methods have significant practical limitations for appropriate use.

For more information, see the course description.

Alastair Sinclair’s popular course on Quality Control of Assays is coming up quickly - October 26-27 - and there are still a few spaces left!

In recent years there has been a strong international movement toward knowing and improving the quality of information used in the Mining Industry for resource/reserve estimation. Topics to be discussed in this course include: duplicate data collection, use of standards and blanks, simple statistics in the evaluation of standards, recognition of outliers, binary graphs as an interpretive aid to evaluating duplicate data, and displaying and analyzing data.

For more information or to register, see the course description.

EduMine is presenting a brand new course this year by Dr. Andrew Bamber of B.C. Mining Research Ltd. and the University of British Columbia: Mine-Mill Integration: Technologies and Approaches for Hard Rock Metal Mines. Scheduled for the 19-20 of October, this course describes a comprehensive range of technologies and applications, and identifies several benefits to be enjoyed in adopting some or all of these approaches.

For more information, or to register, see the full course description.

This course consists of four live webcast sessions directed by Dr. Dirk van Zyl, UBC Professor of Mine Life Cycle Systems.

At the end of the course, participants will have a good understanding of the underpinnings of sustainable development and how this concept is viewed in mining operations; they will have a good grounding in the applications of this concept to mining and the contributions that mining makes to sustainable development; and they will understand how to apply the concept at the project, mine and corporate levels.

This course is part of a graduate studies program presented by the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia and the Swanson School of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. For more information see the course description.

This course, by Jack  Caldwell, is intended for those with little knowledge of mining, but a desire to learn enough to make wise and successful investment moves in public stock markets where mining shares are traded. This course is also intended for seasoned mining stock investors who wish to take a fresh look at the basics of investing in mining stocks with a view to polishing up on, and possibly revising, strategies and investment portfolios. For a full course description, please see the Introduction page.

Dr. Doug Milne’s highly anticipated course on rock mass classification is now available.

This course provides mine staff with the knowledge required to effectively gather geotechnical data for rock mass classification and rock mechanics design calculations. 

For the full course description, please see the Introduction page.

EduMine has launched a new site to be a one-stop source for your continuing professional development (CPD) needs. Check your state or province requirements, compare what you need with what EduMine offers in terms of short courses, online courses, and webcasts, and learn how we can help you maintain your professional licensing. EduMine strives to be your choice in CPD providers, and this new site will help you decide how best to make use of our educational resources.