Professional Development Courses and Field Courses

Online Courses

Slope Performance Monitoring

Beginning November 7^th, 2022, the Geotechnical Center of Excellence will be offering our brand new Slope Performance Monitoring course! This course is based on the “Large Open Pit Guidelines” book, and adds additional and updated material for slope performance monitoring, system design, and data analysis. This course will also include case studies of slope monitoring challenges and solutions in open pit mines.

To request more information about this course, email us at gce@arizona.edu

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Online Radar Monitoring Course

Course in progress! The Geotechnical Center of Excellence at the University of Arizona's popular Geotechnical Radar Monitoring course On-Demand started in August 2022.

Course topics include:

InSAR Monitoring
Ground-based SAR
Ground-based RAR
The Physics of Radar
Radar Capabilities/Limitations
Data Interpretation
Case Studies

To request more information about this course, email us at gce@arizona.edu

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Water in Mine Operations and Slope Stability

Course in progress! Offered by the Geotechnical Center of Excellence (GCE) at the University of Arizona, developed and taught by some of the leading industry experts in Mining Hydrogeology. This course is based on the "Large Open Pit Guidelines" book, and adds additional and updated material for controlling water in mining operations and improving geotechnical slope stability. The course will also include case studies of water management challenges and solutions in open pit and underground mines.

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Integrated Planning Series

venn diagram showing overlap between metallurgy, geology and mining engineering

Finding, developing, and extracting mineral resources goes smoothest when everyone on the team works together, communicates effectively, and understands the whole value chain – not just one piece of it. But all too often, mining engineers, geologists, and metallurgists work in separate silos.

The Lowell Institute for Mineral Resources collaborated with Newmont Mining and Freeport-McMoRan Inc. to develop a series of three short courses designed to remove communication barriers and improve collaboration among geologists, mining engineers, and metallurgists. Each course introduces the fundamentals and role of one profession to the other two, from the perspective of top geologists, engineers, and metallurgists in the mining industry.

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Economic Geology Short Courses and Field Trips