Mine Development Management: Strategy, Feasibility, Operations and Closure

Mine development is a complex process that requires the integration of geology, engineering, economics, operations, environment, communities, governance, and long-term closure planning. A successful mine project must be technically viable, financially resilient, socially accepted, environmentally responsible, and operationally executable. This program provides a structured learning pathway for project managers, senior engineers, mine managers, technical directors, sustainability teams, and professionals preparing for leadership roles in mining. Participants will learn how the mine project cycle moves from early development strategy through exploration, feasibility studies, design, construction, commissioning, operations, closure, and post-closure responsibilities. The course explains how resource and reserve classification, international standards, and social licence considerations influence project decisions. It also covers how pre-feasibility and definitive feasibility studies are developed and how project controls support scope, schedule, cost, risk, and performance management. Participants will review operational topics including fleet dispatch, maintenance, grade control, reconciliation, geotechnics, mineral processing, and daily production management. Environmental and social modules address impact assessment, tailings, water, air, biodiversity, waste rock, acid drainage, stakeholder engagement, local development, resettlement, rehabilitation, and post-closure monitoring. This program is ideal for professionals who need a full-cycle managerial understanding of mine development from strategic planning to responsible closure.

Participants will achieve the following objectives by this course:

This program targets a professional audience seeking to improve knowledge and skills:

• Mine project life cycle and sustainable development strategy.

• International standards, resource classification, and reserve confidence.

• Social licence, stakeholder expectations, and governance requirements.

• Exploration management, study phases, and feasibility coordination.

• Economic evaluation, project value, and investment decision criteria.

• Mine design, construction management, and project controls.

• Daily operations, dispatch, maintenance, grade control, and reconciliation.

• Geotechnics, ground control, mineral processing, and operational integration.

• Environmental assessment, water, air, biodiversity, waste rock, and tailings.

• Closure, rehabilitation, post-closure monitoring, and long-term responsibility.

• Understand the complete mine development cycle and key decision gates.

• Coordinate feasibility, operations, sustainability, and closure requirements.

• Integrate technical, economic, environmental, social, and governance considerations.

• Use project controls and performance indicators to manage execution.

• Link operational planning with safety, maintenance, processing, and cost performance.

• Incorporate stakeholder and sustainability issues into project decisions.

• Support responsible environmental, tailings, and closure management.

• Communicate project assumptions, risks, and recommendations to leadership stakeholders.

• Professional instruction supported by mining project examples.

• Applied case studies across strategy, feasibility, operations, environment, and closure.

• Group discussions on project decisions and development risks.

• Practical exercises in feasibility coordination and project controls.

• Operational performance and key indicator review activities.

• Environmental and social management case discussions.

• Closure planning and rehabilitation scenario analysis.

• Development of integrated mine development recommendations.

This training program is delivered over fifteen intensive training days in a professional applied format, combining executive instruction, applied case studies, project life cycle analysis, feasibility and economic evaluation discussions, operational performance reviews, environmental and social management exercises, closure planning scenarios, project control tools, and integrated decision-making activities for professionals responsible for mine development leadership.