Professional Development Courses and Field Courses
Online Courses
Slope Performance Monitoring
Course in Progress! The Geotechnical Center of Excellence is currently 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 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
Geotechnical Radar Monitoring
The Geotechnical Center of Excellence will be re-offering our Geotechnical Radar Monitoring course beginning April 3rd, 2023.
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
Course flyer and registration form
Read about the course's first run
Water in Mine Operations and Slope Stability
Available on demand! 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.
Integrated Planning Series
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.
Economic Geology Short Courses and Field Trips
Ore Deposits Mapping Short Course (GEOS 504B)
Short Course on Porphyry, IOCG, and Alcalic Cu and Au Deposits (GEOS 504C)
Structural Geology for Exploration and Mine Geologists
