sponsored by
Cambridge House International

past programs

Read the brief report on our 2011 MASTERMINING courses.

Current Program
Day 1 - Introduction to Mining: Technical Aspects (mine life stages, exploration, mining studies, the mining process, design and planning, quantification and interpretation, extraction and processing, rehabilitation)

Day 2 - The Economics of Mining (operations into economics, exploration expenditure, determining capital requirements, mining equipment options, economic evaluation)

Day 3 - Financing and Deal-Making (raising funds and financial instruments, equity investments, debt and project finance, joint ventures, marketing and off-take agreements, technical report and media release interpretation)

Your class leader is Dr. Willem Smuts, a geologist with a Masters degree in sedimentology from the University of Port Elizabeth (1987) and a Ph.D. from Pretoria University (1998) on the origins of coal. He is a registered professional earth scientist and has authored and co-authored over 79 scientific and technical papers. Willem has 23 years of technical and management experience in the fields of research, exploration, mining and consulting. He has edited several leading mining magazines, independently consults on coal and base metals exploration, chairs the Africa Mining Congress held annually in South Africa and has been delivering hands-on mining classes and workshops for companies and individuals around the globe.

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