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SUMMARY:“Lithium Processing (Hard Rock and Brine)” Short Course
DESCRIPTION:Lithium (and its chemicals) has been a hot commodity over the last couple of years due to new applications of this metal in consumer electronics\, smart grid storage\, lithium ion batteries and electric battery powered vehicles.  Lithium based chemicals are produced either from lithium brines or from lithium bearing minerals.\nLithium projects are not easy to develop and there are examples of project failures due to lack of knowledge and understanding of complexity in impurity removal or temporal component of grade and composition in brine deposits or chemistry issues in hard rock processing.\nIn this course we introduce participants to the basic concepts and operations involved in lithium processing including:\n•	An overview of the mineralogy and geology of lithium bearing ores and genesis and the impact this has on the processing plant.\n•	A comparison between hard rock lithium mining vs. harvesting lithium brines.\n•	The unit operations and equipment used in lithium processing (hard rock and brine).\n•	Typical flowsheets and their application to various lithium ores (coarse vs. fine particle separation).\n•	Metallurgical testwork required to characterise a lithium ore or brine.
URL:https://secure.northernminer.com/event/lithium-processing-hard-rock-brine-short-course/
LOCATION:OreVneture\, Vancouver\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:“Lithium Processing (Hard Rock and Brine)” Short Course
DESCRIPTION:Lithium (and its chemicals) has been a hot commodity over the last couple of years due to new applications of this metal in consumer electronics\, smart grid storage\, lithium ion batteries and electric battery powered vehicles.  Lithium based chemicals are produced either from lithium brines or from lithium bearing minerals.\nLithium projects are not easy to develop and there are examples of project failures due to lack of knowledge and understanding of complexity in impurity removal or temporal component of grade and composition in brine deposits or chemistry issues in hard rock processing.\nIn this course we introduce participants to the basic concepts and operations involved in lithium processing including:\n•	An overview of the mineralogy and geology of lithium bearing ores and genesis and the impact this has on the processing plant.\n•	A comparison between hard rock lithium mining vs. harvesting lithium brines.\n•	The unit operations and equipment used in lithium processing (hard rock and brine).\n•	Typical flowsheets and their application to various lithium ores (coarse vs. fine particle separation).\n•	Metallurgical testwork required to characterise a lithium ore or brine.
URL:https://secure.northernminer.com/event/lithium-processing-hard-rock-brine-short-course-2/
LOCATION:OreVenture\, Toronto\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Course,Short Courses
ORGANIZER;CN="OreVenture":MAILTO:info@oreventure.com
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SUMMARY:Media Training for Mineral Exploration and Mining Professionals
DESCRIPTION: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. \nWhat you will learn \n• How to tell compelling stories;\n• How to prepare for media interviews;\n• How to write news releases that get noticed;\n• Techniques for succeeding in media interviews;\n• Storytelling and key messages;\n• How to be an effective spokesperson;\n• How to managing conflict.
URL:https://secure.northernminer.com/event/media-training-mineral-exploration-mining-professionals/
LOCATION:Regus location (1500 – 885 West Georgia Street\, Vancouver\, V6C 3E8\, 1500 - 885 West Georgia Street \, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6C 3E8\, Canada
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ORGANIZER;CN="PR Associates":MAILTO:admin@prassociates.com
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170628
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SUMMARY:“Advanced Excel VBA for Engineers and Scientists” Short Course
DESCRIPTION: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.\nIndeed there are ‘Horror stories’ where poor Excel management has lead to millions of dollars in direct losses through wholesale loss of data and models.\nThe 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.
URL:https://secure.northernminer.com/event/advanced-excel-vba-engineers-scientists-short-course/
LOCATION:OreVenture\, Vancouver\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Course,Short Courses
ORGANIZER;CN="OreVenture":MAILTO:info@oreventure.com
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SUMMARY:“Advanced Mass Balancing and Inference” Short Course
DESCRIPTION:In order to optimize a mineral processing plant there are nine steps required:\n1.	Collect data (measurement)\n2.	Collate data (into a database)\n3.	Flowsheeting\n4.	Mass Balance\n5.	Inference\n6.	Determine Operational Parameter\n7.	Model fit\n8.	Simulate\n9.	Optimise\nMass 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.\nIn 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).
URL:https://secure.northernminer.com/event/advanced-mass-balancing-inference-short-course/
LOCATION:OreVenture\, Vancouver\, BC\, Canada
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ORGANIZER;CN="OreVenture":MAILTO:info@oreventure.com
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