The Northern Miner

Media Training for Mineral Exploration and Mining Professionals
2017-06-20 08:30 - 2017-06-21 12:30 (America/Toronto) | Regus location (1500 – 885 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, V6C 3E8, 1500 - 885 West Georgia Street , Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 3E8, Canada
Led by a mining and business journalist veteran with more than two decades of media training experience, we specialize in customized and highly practical media training for mineral exploration and mining company professionals. Our workshops are designed to educate and empower whether media coverage is your top priority, your darkest fear, or something in between.
What you will learn
• How to tell compelling stories;
• How to prepare for media interviews;
• How to write news releases that get noticed;
• Techniques for succeeding in media interviews;
• Storytelling and key messages;
• How to be an effective spokesperson;
• How to managing conflict.

“Advanced Excel VBA for Engineers and Scientists” Short Course
2017-06-26 - 2017-06-27 | OreVenture, Vancouver, BC, Canada
More than 90% of quantitative professionals (inclusive of Engineers, scientists and analysts) use Excel at a basic level. Yet possibly less than 10% would have received any guidance on how to use Excel effectively. Hence many professionals use Excel in a manner that much of their work is not shared effectively with their colleagues leading to a significant loss in productivity.
Indeed there are ‘Horror stories’ where poor Excel management has lead to millions of dollars in direct losses through wholesale loss of data and models.
The course focuses on providing a strategy to ensure that Excel is used efficiently. At the end of the course participants will be invited to estimate the efficiency gain that is provided by using the strategies of the course.

Recycling Metals from Industrial Waste
2017-06-27 08:00 - 2017-06-29 12:00 (America/Denver) | Colorado School of Mines, 80401
Recycling Metals from Industrial Waste, now in its 25th year, focuses on current plant practices to convert metal-containing wastes to products. Processors, raw materials, and markets are identified and quantified. Speakers with decades of hands-on experience detail multiple approaches to recycling metals and associated materials – backed up by slides, videos, and the syllabus.
Particular emphasis is given to combinations of physical, hydrometallurgical, and pyrometallurgical processing, along with associated regulations, to facilitate economical recycling. The presentations are on a practical level, focusing on plant operations, with ample opportunity for interaction by the course participants.

“Advanced Mass Balancing and Inference” Short Course
2017-06-28 - 2017-06-29 | OreVenture, Vancouver, BC, Canada
In order to optimize a mineral processing plant there are nine steps required:
1. Collect data (measurement)
2. Collate data (into a database)
3. Flowsheeting
4. Mass Balance
5. Inference
6. Determine Operational Parameter
7. Model fit
8. Simulate
9. Optimise
Mass balancing is often taught using least squares minimization. Inference is generally not taught and in the absence of inference, model fitting is rendered very difficult, which is why mineral processing simulation is generally much more difficult than it should be.
In this course we focus on mass balancing and inference. Whilst mass balancing is taught initially from a conventional least squares minimization approach, the course then discusses a probabilistic or information theory approach. Information theory is a relatively new area of mathematics which is only available to participants through this course. By using information theory one can infer ore properties at each stream in great depth (i.e. multi-mineral particle distributions); thereby providing the basis for later steps (particularly modelfitting).

Introduction to Mineral Processing
2017-07-18 08:00 - 2017-07-21 11:30 (America/Denver) | Colorado School of Mines, 80401
This course is designed for engineers, scientists, and others working in the mineral or particulate processing industries. It is intended to provide an overview of each of the important unit operations used in particulate processing of minerals. The fundamentals are introduced but are not overly emphasized in this course, so the course is suitable for individuals associated with the mineral industry, such as those in technical sales, regulatory agencies, and related fields. The course will also be a useful refresher for those already engaged in mineral processing activities.

Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods
2017-07-24 08:00 - 2017-07-28 12:00, 2017-09-11 08:00 - 2017-09-15 12:00, 2017-11-13 08:00 - 2017-11-17 12:00 (America/Denver) | Colorado School of Mines, 80401
This intensive 3- or 5-day course has been presented over 950 times to more than 21,000 people since 1970. Organized for managers, engineers, geologists, landmen, scientists, accountants and others concerned with evaluating investments, this course relates to the economic analysis of income producing and service producing investments using discounted cash flow analysis criteria and procedures.
The course covers economic analysis techniques used to optimize the development and operation of mining, petroleum and non-natural resource production and processing operations.

Strategic Mine Planning with New Digital Technologies, Risk Management and Mineral Value Chains
2017-09-13 09:00 - 2017-09-15 17:00 (America/Toronto) | McGill University – COSMO Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory, 3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A0E8, Canada
Instructors: Roussos Dimitrakopoulos, McGill University, Canada and Ryan Goodfellow, McGill University, Canada
Objectives and Content
At the time of a continuing rebound of metal markets, learn how the application of new digital technologies that can add substantial value to strategic mine planning and asset valuation. The new technologies and related tools integrate technical risk management while capitalizing on the synergies amongst the elements of mineral value chains through their simultaneous optimization – from mines to products to markets.
Learn how you can improve performance by:
• Learning the state-of-the-art strategic mine planning concepts and new approaches that unlock and add value to mining assets
• Finding out how to minimize technical risks and produce optimal pit designs with strategic mine planning processes and the next generation optimization methods
• Discovering methods and tools for the simultaneous risk-managing (stochastic) optimization of mining complexes and mineral value chains from mines to products to markets
• Discovering how the new developments will help you capture the “upside potential” in mine plans and minimize “downside risks”, as well as increase cash flows
• Exploring and learning from real-world examples, practices and comparisons in diverse applications, from gold and copper mines to iron ore and nickel laterites
• Understanding how to deal with blending and non-linear geo-metallurgical interactions in the processing streams, as materials are transformed from bulk material to refined products
• Participating in hands-on computer sessions that show how to increase project value by employing new risk-managing simultaneous optimization models
To register or for more information please contact:
Deborah Frankland
Canada Research Chair and Laboratory Administrator
COSMO – Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory
Department of Mining and Materials Engineering
McGill University
Frank Dawson Adams Building, Room 123A
3450 University Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E8
Canada
Tel.: (514) 398-5461
E-mail: admcrc.mining@mcgill.ca

“Uranium Ore Processing” Short Course
2017-09-18 - 2017-09-19 | OreVenture, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Uranium is known to occur in over 200 different minerals but most of these do not occur in deposits of sufficient grade to warrant economic extraction. Uranium ore can be extracted by open pit, underground or in-situ mining methods.
Uranium mill process flowsheets and unit operations for yellow cake production vary based on chemical and mineralogical characteristics of the ore to be processed. Ore characteristics are a particularly important component of the understanding the process development. Numerous other factors such as geology, radiation safety, economics, geography, environment, and regulations can change the uranium ore processing technology selection criteria.
In this course we introduce participants to the basic concepts and operations involved in uranium ore processing including:
• An overview of the various types of mining techniques in uranium industry.
• An introduction of the mineralogy of uranium bearing ores and associated minerals and the impact this has on the method of uranium extraction used.
• The basic operations and equipment used in uranium mills.
• The structure of flowsheets and their application to various uranium ores.
• Metallurgical testwork required to characterise a uranium ore.
• Meeting regulatory compliance for environmental and radiation concerns in the Uranium industry.

Tunneling Fundamentals, Practice and Innovations
2017-09-18 08:00 - 2017-09-21 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Colorado School of Mines, 80401
Tunneling Fundamentals, Practice and Innovations is an annual short course for industry professionals that provides a comprehensive overview of tunnel planning, design and construction across all applications and all geologies. Through presentations by the tunneling industry’s top-practicing experts combined with one-of-a-kind hands-on labs and demonstrations, this four-day course will provide you with a sound understanding of the state practice and innovations in tunneling worldwide.
A unique component of this course will be the opportunity to participate in hands-on labs and demonstrations in state-of-the-art testing and research facilities at Colorado School of Mines.
Lab and demonstrations will cover:
EPB Soil Conditioning
Rock Cutting
Abrasity and Wear
Shotcrete
Grouting

“Water Treatment & Management in Mining and Mineral Processing” Short Course
2017-09-25 - 2017-09-26 | OreVenture, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Water is fundamental to mining and mineral industry and widely used for processing and treatment, heating, cooling, dust suppression, etc. Managing water and effluent discharge quality throughout the mine life is key to efficient mining and has a big role in mining environmental impact and footprint.
Treatment technologies often must deal with regulatory requirements, environmental sensitivity, social issues and conflicts and there are risks associated with each option. Mining companies must treat wastewater to highest standards, need to recycle and have commitment to sustainable water use.
In this course we introduce participants the basic concepts of available technologies and operations involved in treatment and managing water and waste water in mining and mineral industries.

High-Speed Imaging Methods for Research and Expermentation
2017-09-26 08:00 - 2017-09-29 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Colorado School of Mines, 80401
World leaders in digital high-speed imaging and explosive education, Vision Research and the Colorado School of Mines, have announced a collaboration to develop a university-level short course on high-speed imaging’s wide range of applications with a focus on experimentation with explosives and ballistic applications.
The short course is a carefully structured introduction to main topics in field of explosive engineering and how to best use digital high-speed imaging when conducting experiments or research for military or civilian applications. Both the fundamentals theory and practical training will be conducted at Colorado School of Mines in Explosive Research Laboratory at Idaho Springs.
A wide range of material will be covered including: detonation and shock wave physics, selection of explosives, an introduction to high-speed imaging, scaling experiments for high-speed imaging, lighting and selecting lenses for the best results, triggering strategies, analysis of high-speed imagery, and more. Each topic will be presented by internationally renowned experts in their respective fields, and will address an audience spanning a wide range of scientific backgrounds.

Sampling Theory, Sampling Practices, and Their Economic Impact
2017-10-09 08:00 - 2017-10-13 17:00 (America/Denver) | Colorado School of Mines, 80401
Poor sampling, compounded by poor laboratory subsampling, leads to questionable geostatistics, and generates severe conciliation problems between the geological model, the mine, and the plant estimates. These problems also affect the price of commodities and the validity of environmental assessments. The result is a huge money loss for the company involved, evolving later in likely litigation. It is of key importance for geologists, miners, metallurgists, chemists, and environmental specialists to extract maximum information from the available data, as large investments and crucial decisions depend on it.

Geostatistical Mineral Resource Estimation and Meeting the New Regulatory Environment: Step by step from sampling to grade control
2017-10-10 - 2017-10-13 | McGill University – COSMO Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory, 3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A0E8, Canada
Instructors: Marcelo Godoy, Newmont Mining Corporation, USA; Roussos Dimitrakopoulos, McGill University, Canada; and Guy Desharnais, SGS Canada Inc., Canada
Content and Objectives
This course is designed according to the latest regulations on public reporting of Mineral Resources. It aims at showing how state-of-the-art statistical and geostatistical techniques help answering the requirements of those regulations in an objective and reproducible manner. A particular emphasis is put on understanding sampling and estimation errors and how to assign levels estimation confidence through the application of resource classification fundamentals. In addition to a solid introduction to mining geostatistics this course provides a comprehensive overview of industry’s best practices in the broader field of Mineral Resource estimation.
Attendees will learn:
• How to use statistical inference to identify problems with the data
• How to produce models that address the needs of mining companies
• Compliance with NI43-101, SEC Industry Guide 7 and JORC
• Effective workflows from data preparation to resource classification
• How to validate, reconcile and communicate resource estimation results
• The fundamentals of resource classification and how to apply them in practice
• How to produce auditable and reproducible resource estimates
• Estimation of grade control models and best practices in ore selection
• How to leverage costly geometallurgical testing to reduce risk
• How to use conditional simulations to quantify uncertainty in resource estimates
• How to integrate orebody simulations into mine planning
To register or for more information please contact:
Deborah Frankland
Canada Research Chair and Laboratory Administrator
COSMO – Stochastic Mine Planning Laboratory
Department of Mining and Materials Engineering
McGill University
Frank Dawson Adams Building, Room 123A
3450 University Street
Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E8
Canada
Tel.: (514) 398-5461
E-mail: admcrc.mining@mcgill.ca

“Advanced Excel VBA for Engineers and Scientists” Short Course
2017-10-12 - 2017-10-13 | OreVenture, Toronto, ON, Canada

Mining Law 2017
2017-10-12 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Vancouver) | Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel, 999 Canada Pl, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C3B5, Canada
Who should attend: Lawyers and mining executives.
Learning level: All levels
Mining continues to be of major importance both in British Columbia and on the international economic stage. This course will focus on the legal and pragmatic implications of current developments affecting practice in this area. Join us for a comprehensive update, both legal and practical!
Law Society of BC CPD Hours: 6 hours (including a minimum of 1 hour pertaining to professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations, and/or practice management.)
Course Chair
Graham H. Scott — McCullogh O’Connor Irwin LLP, Vancouver

“Advanced Mass Balancing and Inference” Short Course
2017-10-15 - 2017-10-16 | OreVenture, Toronto, ON, Canada

Practical Steelmaking and Casting
2017-10-16 - 2017-10-17 | Montreal, Montrealc, Quebec, Canada
Manufacturing process in steel industry undergoing changes for making steel better and better in terms of quality, cost & efficiency. Advance melting techniques like Ladle Metallurgy play an important role in this direction. The focus is to get steel of higher strength/weight ratio along with longer life. This has enabled designer to make product with less section thickness for higher efficiency and less environmental pollution. This workshop has been designed to give insight of various steel making and casting processes from industry point of view. It covers evolution of various steel making processes, their operation and limitation and latest development on making clean steel through various secondary refining treatments. Continuous casting process is covered for making bloom and billet which are used in rolling mills for long and flat products. Steel Casting plays an important role and cast products are integral part in all industries. Manufacturing of steel castings, particularly resin bonded sand casting process is covered to get insight of casting processes. For better understanding of steelmaking and casting process, some important fundamental metallurgical concepts are also covered along with examples.

Project Management for Mining
2017-10-18 08:00 - 2017-10-20 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Colorado School of Mines, 80401
Project Management for Mining is a 3-day practical course focused on the successful delivery of mine development projects. Primary emphasis is placed on major greenfield mine development, but the information presented is fully applicable to brownfield project undertakings.
The course teaches project management best practices, and how they are woven together from initial mineral resource identification on through the project stages of opportunity, viability, planning, execution, and completion, to delivery of a sustainable operating property. The course focuses on the key steps in each stage that must be properly executed to achieve project success.

"Metallurgical Testwork, Interpretation & Process Design" Short Course
2017-10-19 - 2017-10-20 | OreVenture, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The metallurgical testwork program is generally the most important critical path item for process design of a circuit and if it is not implemented in a well-structured and framed way by an experienced subject matter expert it can become the main reason of a mining project fatal flow.
Not two ore bodies are the same. Although development of a suitable process flowsheet to treat an orebody appears to be a relatively straightforward, selecting the optimum process whilst maintaining the maximum recovery and revenue is a complex task.
Aspects of metallurgical test program ranging from initial sample selection and ore characterisation to understand metallurgical response of an ore to complex pilot tests. It is necessary to develop metallurgical testplan that can cater for the variability in the orebody, whilst still providing optimum economics on the majority of the process plant feed. This course will provide the participants with the knowledge to:
• Why and what metallurgical testwork?
• Developing metallurgical testwork
• Identify the testwork requirement
• Definition of the laboratory testwork appropriate for the study type and sampling requirement
• Test results and data interpretation
• Sample variability and pilot tests
• Process circuit design and flowsheet development based on testwork outcome
• Risk and mitigation in testwork

Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgists
2017-10-23 - 2017-10-24 | Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Metals and alloys are used in a great variety of applications. Understanding how metals behave and how they can be obtained by processing raw materials is valuable to employees in this area. Extraction of metals applying various technologies, including physical separation, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy and electrometallurgy.
Metallurgy for the Non-Metallurgists Workshop is an important learning platform where a comprehensive overview of metallurgy and advances in the field are shared among the participants both formally and informally. This course provides important, practical knowledge to the non-metallurgist. The objective of the course is to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject ranging from topics relevant to conventional or modern technology.

"Gold Ore Processing" Short Course
2017-11-16 - 2017-11-17 | OreVenture, Toronto, Canada
Gold is among the first metals used by man because it naturally occurs in its native state. Over the years different process flowsheets have been developed with the purpose of optimising gold extraction from a particular feed material using the most appropriate technology.
Due to numerous factors ranging from technical e.g. geological, mineralogical, metallurgical and economical to non-technical such as geographical, environmental and political, diverse industrial flowsheet for gold production have been developed in different part of the world.
In this course we introduce participants the basic concepts and operations involved in gold extraction. Attendees of the course will:
• Study the introductory concepts of the mineralogy of gold bearing ores and minerals and the effect this has on the method of gold extraction used.
• Learn the basic operations and equipment used in gold extraction.
• Understand the structure of flowsheets and their application to various gold ores and minerals.
• Understand metallurgical testwork required to characterise a gold ore.
• Develop skills and knowledge in achieving maximum productivity at minimum costs.

“Uranium Ore Processing” Short Course
2017-11-20 - 2017-11-21 | OreVenture, Toronto, ON, Canada

“Water Treatment & Management in Mining and Mineral Processing” Short Course
2017-11-22 - 2017-11-23 | Oreventure, Toronto, ON, Canada

American Exploration & Mining Association Annual Meeting, Exposition, & Short Courses
2017-12-03 - 2017-12-08 | Nugget Casino Resort, 1100 Nugget Avenue, Sparks, NV, 89431, United States
American Exploration & Mining Association (formerly known as the Northwest Mining Association until 2013) is a 122 year old, 1,900 member, non-profit, non-partisan trade association based, in Spokane, Washington. AEMA members reside in 42 states and are actively involved in prospecting, exploring, mining, and reclamation closure activities on USFS administered lands, especially in the West. Our diverse membership includes every facet of the mining industry including geology, exploration, mining, engineering, equipment manufacturing, technical services, and sales of equipment and supplies. AEMA’s broad membership represents a true cross-section of the American mining community from small miners and exploration geologists to both junior and large mining companies. More than 90% of our members are small businesses or work for small businesses. Most of our members are individual citizens.

“Mineral Processing for non-mineral Processors” Short Course
2017-12-08 | OreVenture, Toronto, ON, Canada
Mineral processing can involve four general types of unit operation:
• Comminution
• Sizing & Classification
• Concentration
• Dewatering
Knowing the fundamental principles, conventions and terminology in mineral processing, and having broad overview of current technical and operating issues and circuit design considerations are essential for engineers, technicians, operators, support staff such as accountants, brokers, investors and others working in the mineral processing industry.
The course covers unit operations in mineral processing including comminution, physical separation, flotation, classification and dewatering.
Upon completion of this course the participants are able to
• Identify various unit operations in mineral processing.
• Understand the step used for the processing of various minerals.
• Describe and explain commonly occurring processes for mineral beneficiation.
• Analyze reasons for selection of processes based on raw material properties.
• Have knowledge of process conditions to suggest process selections for hypothetical raw materials.

“Mineral Processing for non-mineral Processors” Short Course
2017-12-11 | OreVenture, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Mineral processing can involve four general types of unit operation:
• Comminution
• Sizing & Classification
• Concentration
• Dewatering
Knowing the fundamental principles, conventions and terminology in mineral processing, and having broad overview of current technical and operating issues and circuit design considerations are essential for engineers, technicians, operators, support staff such as accountants, brokers, investors and others working in the mineral processing industry.
The course covers unit operations in mineral processing including comminution, physical separation, flotation, classification and dewatering.
Upon completion of this course the participants are able to
• Identify various unit operations in mineral processing.
• Understand the step used for the processing of various minerals.
• Describe and explain commonly occurring processes for mineral beneficiation.
• Analyse reasons for selection of processes based on raw material properties.
• Have knowledge of process conditions to suggest process selections for hypothetical raw materials.

PMP Exam Preparation
2018-01-15 08:00 - 2018-01-19 16:30 (America/Toronto) | Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada
This 5-day course is an intense review of exam material. At the beginning of each module, there is a practice pre-test before the presentation of the course material which is followed by realistic, challenging, multiple-choice questions. This course is aligned with the PMBOK 6th Edition and includes access to an online exam simulator.

MDRU Geophysics for Mineral Exploration Short Course
2018-02-26 08:00 - 2018-02-28 17:00 (America/Vancouver) | UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC, V6Z 3B7, Canada
This innovative three-day training course led by Prof. Mike Dentith uses applied learning techniques and real-world mineral exploration scenarios to train participants in the key principles of interpreting geophysical data sets, without the need for complex mathematics and physics. Participants will learn how to integrate geological and geophysical methods to optimize mineral exploration opportunities.
When: 26 – 28 February, 2018
Where: UBC Robson Square, Downtown Vancouver
Cost: MDRU Corporate Members $960 + GST (see event website for Non-Member and Student prices)
For more information, including the key principles covered each day, download the course flyer on the MDRU event website.
