The Northern Miner

MASTERMINING course: Understanding the Mining Industry From A to Z
2019-02-28 09:00 - 2019-03-02 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Radisson Admiral Hotel Toronto – Harbourfront, 249 Queen's Quay West, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 2N5, Canada
Master the mining industry in a modern and interactive 3-day course that builds an understanding of the mining industry and investments; covering Introduction to Mining, the economics of mining and financing and deal-making.
Day 1 – Introduction to Mining (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)

Project Management Course - Project Management Essentials
2019-03-25 08:00 - 2019-05-27 17:00 | Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada
This course is designed to give new project managers and project team members an overview of the various tools and techniques of project management and the key elements needed to deliver successful projects. This course covers the complete project lifecycle from initiating, through project planning and execution, to project close-out. 21 PDUs.

Project Management Course - Managing Project Risk
2019-03-28 08:00 - 2019-03-29 17:00 | Laurentian University, 935 Ramsey Lake Road, Sudbury, Ontario, P3E 2C6, Canada
This 2-day course explores quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify and analyze project risk factors (risk event, event probability, and event impact). A variety of risk response choices are discussed, and risk identification and risk response are practiced in workshop groups. Quantitative techniques are applied to problems but don’t worry, advanced mathematics is not used!
