Professional Development Course
Course Title: Optimizing the Strategic Mine Plan: Unlocking Intrinsic Value
ONLINE SESSION
Date: July 11 – 15, 2022 (5 days)
Time: 8:30am – 5:00pm, Eastern Standard Time
Location: Online
Registration deadline: June 15th, 2022
Limit: 20 seats
- Course fee includes a 30-day GEOVIA WHITTLE software evaluation license
- Take note of registration deadlines as software dongles need to be couriered to you
- Training is in collaboration with West African Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and Dassault Systemes
Course Fee in US Dollars (exclusive of taxes):
- Regular $2,700 (Before June 15th, 2022)
- Early Bird $2,500 (Before June 1st, 2022)
- Multi-person (≥2) $2,500 (Before June 1st, 2022)
IN-PERSON SESSION
Date: August 1 – 5, 2022 (5 days)
Time: 8:30am – 5:00pm, Greenwich Mean Time
Location: Busua Beach Resort, Ghana
Registration deadline: July 15th, 2022
Limit: 20 seats
- Course fee includes a 30-day GEOVIA WHITTLE software evaluation license
- Take note of registration deadlines
- Training is in collaboration with West African Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum and Dassault Systemes
- Course fee includes hotel accommodation and all meals
Course Fee in US Dollars (exclusive of taxes):
- Regular $3,200 (Before July 15th, 2022)
- Early Bird $3,000 (Before July 1st, 2022)
- Multi-person (≥2) $3,000 (Before July 1st, 2022)
COURSE OBJECTIVES & WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Learn how to improve your mine planning techniques by:
- Understanding the principal concepts of strategic mine planning and improving economic performance such as revenue and cost
- Exploring practical stochastic pit-limit optimization, pushback designs and mine-life estimation
- Learning the principles and concepts of mathematical programming and its applications to integrated mine planning and waste management
- Knowing about open pit/underground mining options optimization
- Understanding mine production scheduling and its financial risk management
- Discovering practical implementation techniques in mine planning with grade, tonnage and metal uncertainty
- Exploring cut-off grades, stockpiling and waste management strategies
- Participating in hands-on computer labs on the applications of new optimization concepts
- Useful for mining, operations, project, and exploration managers, mine planners, mine engineers, geoscientists, geostatisticians, geologists, metallurgists, financial analysts, and directors
COURSE OUTLINE
Principal and fundamental concepts in open-pit limit optimization
- Strategic mine planning and economic performance
- Mining revenues and costs
- Open-pit limit optimization
- Practical pushback design with minimum mining width
Principal and fundamental concepts in strategic mine planning optimization
- Life-of-mine production planning/scheduling
- Mine-life estimation
- Cut-off grade optimization and Lane’s theory
- Stockpiling strategy
- Directional mining control
- Simultaneous optimization of mining value chain
- Multi-mine multi-process production scheduling
- Mine-to-mill production planning
- Blending and non-linear recovery in processing streams
- Mine planning considerations for contract mining
Strategic mining options optimization, and integrated mine planning and waste management
- Characterization of mineralized mine waste as future resource
- Integrated production and waste disposal scheduling
- Strategic mining options optimization: open-pit mining,underground mining or both
- Open pit/underground mining transition optimization
Risk-based mine planning
- Mine production risk management and integrated optimization
- Stochastic pit limit optimization and pushback design
- Stochastic mine planning optimization methods
- An approach to mine planning with grade, tonnage and metal uncertainty
Computer Labs with GEOVIA WHITTLE Software
- Case Studies: Oil sands, gold, iron ore deposits
- Eleven detailed step-by-step hands on computer application labs
- Participants will need two monitors for the online training session
- Synchronous online teaching and interaction through Zoom
- Software and pdf of lectures and lab instructions will be provided
- OptiSim Mining is an educational partner of Dassault Systemes
REGISTRATION
Contact Eugene Ben-Awuah at ebenawuah@optisimmining.ca or optisimmining.ca@gmail.com for registration forms and any additional information.
INSTRUCTOR
Eugene Ben-Awuah is an Associate Professor of Mining Engineering at the Bharti School of Engineering, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada. He is also the IAMGOLD Research Fellow in Open Pit Mining. He holds a MSc from the University of Mines and Technology and a PhD from the University of Alberta in Mining Engineering. Eugene is a registered professional mining engineer and has extensive operational, consulting and research experience from Ghana, Canada and Australia in mine design and optimization, and mine production management. He teaches and conducts research in strategic mining options optimization, integrated mine planning and waste management optimization, simulation optimization of intelligent and autonomous mining systems, and applications of discrete fracture network. He is the Principal Mining Consultant for OptiSim Mining Solutions on mine optimization and simulation. He is a member of Mining Optimization Laboratory (MOL), the West African Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (WAIMM) and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM).