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Objective

This course module is for investors and other stakeholders requiring a background to financing mineral exploration, investment opportunities in minerals and metals, foreign partnership and international funding, international reports on minerals and metals markets, stages of mining and mineral processing. Our programme further provides a non-technical introduction to mining, the concept of sustainable development in mining, tools for evaluating exploration companies and interpreting mining financial statements.

An Introduction to Mining and Mineral Processing

Course Contents:

  • Ore Deposits
  • Mining Methods
  • Mineral Processing Methods
  • Mine Waste Disposal
  • Mining and Money
  • A Future of Mining

International Reports of Metal and Mineral Markets

Course Contents:

The report gives you -

  • Independent research and analysis
  • Market intelligence for successful business planning
  • Detailed survey of production and processing in 68 countries
  • Potential producing and processing companies
  • Forecasts for end-use consumption and world supply and demand

Investment Opportunities in minerals & Metals

This is a course for CEOs, managers, professionals, students and concerned stakeholders in mining who require a better understanding of the various investment opportunities in minerals and metals sector.

Course Contents:

  • Mining
  • Quarry
  • Exploration
  • Gemstones Trading
  • Smelting and Refining
  • Mining Training School
  • Trading Metal Exchange
  • Sales of Mining Equipment
  • Trading in Scrapped Metals
  • Recycling and Warehousing
  • Polishing and Slabbing Factory
  • World Class Lapidaries for Gemstones
  • World Class Laboratory for Chemical Analysis

International Funding and Foreign Partnership

This is a course for managers, professionals, students and concerned stakeholders in mining who require a better understanding of international funding and foreign partnership.

Course Contents:

  • Sharing formula
  • Cash involvement
  • Value added strategies
  • The international conspiracy
  • Ways to be prepared for “sucker” investors
  • What to expect and ways of negotiating other than “we have the minerals”
  • The power of negotiation “you don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate for”

The Evolving Image of Mining

This is a course for managers, professionals, students and concerned stakeholders in mining who require a better understanding of the impacts of mining on the environment and communities. The course discusses the underlying causes which have shaped the public’s evolving perception of the mining industry and presents ways in which mining companies can overcome these perceptions

Course Contents:

  • Mining Characteristics and Facts
  • Public Perception of Mining
  • Achieving a Balance

Sustainable Development in Mining

This is a course for managers, professionals, students and concerned stakeholders in mining who require an understanding of the concepts and issues of sustainable development. The course is illustrated by numerous case studies and examples from mining projects, and supported by a discussion of mineral consumption, recycling and resource depletion.

Course Contents:

  • Sustainable Development, Ethics and the Environment
  • Sustainable Development and the Mining Industry
  • Case Studies in the Mining Industry
  • Mineral Consumption and Depletion

An Introduction to Mining Investment - Understanding the Risks

This is an in depth presentation of mining investment risk, so that those relatively new to mining can identify and evaluate the risks involved … and hence make informed decisions about how and when to invest in a mine or mining company

Course Contents:

  • Introduction
  • Phases of Mining
  • Scams
  • The Philosophy of Mining and Investing

Interpreting the Financial Statements of a Mining Company

This course is a must for corporate stakeholders of any description. By the end of the course you will have developed an awareness of the relevant financial information you can discover about a mining corporation from its audited financial statements. You will also have an appreciation for how accountants are challenged with exercising professional judgment on qualitative issues and balancing this with numerical precision

Course Contents:

  • Statement of Operations
  • Balance Sheet
  • Cash Flow Statement

Stages of Mining

This course is a must for corporate stakeholders of any description. By the end of the course you will have developed an awareness of the relevant useful information on stages of mining. We take you through various stages of mining, from consent of landowners to exploration license from the federal government.

Course Contents:

  • Fact-findings
  • Prospecting
  • Exploration
  • Feasibility studies
  • Implementation
Other Courses

  • Use of English 1
  • Use of English 11
  • Introduction to Entrepreneurship
  • Surface mining
  • Drilling and blasting
  • Rock mechanics
  • Technical report writing
  • Practical skills in Entrepreneurship
  • Underground Mining
  • Mine geometry
  • Mine ventilation
  • Mineral processing technology 1
  • Information technology in engineering
  • Student’s report and seminar presentation
  • Mine health and safety
  • Mineral processing technology 11
  • Seminar 1
  • Programming and software application in mining
  • Artisanal and small scale mining
  • Seminar 11
LSM also teaches soft skills such as:

  • Critical Thinking
  • Decision Making
  • Communication Skills – Oral and Written
  • Public Speaking/Self Confidence
  • Professionalism and Etiquette
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Self Management
  • Problem Solving Skills
  • Personal Development
  • Personal Finance Management
  • Developing Executive Leadership
  • Networking and Relationship Building
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