Mining Planning Course
Gain mastery in mine planning, covering everything from pit design and pushback sequencing to life-of-mine scheduling, fleet optimisation, cost and cash flow modelling, plus thorough risk assessment. Optimise NPV and create solid, professional-grade plans tailored for copper and gold mining operations, ensuring efficiency and profitability throughout the project lifecycle.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Mining Planning Course equips you with hands-on skills to confidently plan and assess open pit mining projects. You will learn to collect and validate essential assumptions, design initial pits and pushbacks, develop life-of-mine schedules, align equipment fleets with production rates, and perform basic cash flow and NPV analyses. Additionally, you will gain expertise in risk evaluation, compliance with reporting standards, and producing clear documentation for strong, justifiable mine plans.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Develop realistic and defensible mine planning assumptions quickly.
- Design final pits and pushbacks with solid economic justification.
- Create efficient life-of-mine schedules matching fleet, tonnage, and throughput.
- Build economic models to calculate NPV, cash flows, and value drivers swiftly.
- Conduct mining risk assessments identifying technical, cost, and price risks with solutions.
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