Live webcast: Mining 101

This 2-day course is an introduction to mining and mineral processing. Basics concepts will be presented along with many pictures, videos, and anecdotes so that the participants will have a better understanding of public information provided by exploration and mining companies.

The course content includes:

– The activities of a mining company
– Geology
– Resources estimation and reporting
– Open pit mining
– Underground mining
– Mineral processing

By the end of the course, the participants will have basics knowledge of

– how minerals are formed,
– how we explore for them,
– how we estimate how much there is in an orebody,
– how we mine them, and
– how we process them