COURSE: Senior Exploration Management Course

Western Mining Services (WMS) and the Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) have combined to offer a senior-level exploration management course on February 28 – March 3, 2011 on the campus of The University of Western Australia in Perth. The Director of the CET, Professor McCuaig, was so overwhelmed with the positive feedback from participants in the 2010 course that the CET and WMS have decided that the Senior Exploration Management Course will become an annual event. This four-day training course covers the principles and practices of effective exploration management. The course curriculum covers the spectrum of mineral exploration business issues that typically confront senior exploration managers. Participants will leave with a better understanding of:

Mineral exploration at the strategic scale – the roles of greenfields and brownfields exploration in development and implementation of corporate operating and growth strategies; Designing and managing exploration programs and portfolios; The importance of group structure, program design, process discipline and effective people management in achieving exploration group objectives; Opportunity generation including the exploration search space concept, targeting science and the application of targeting models; and How to conduct new opportunity due diligence, build and negotiate land and minerals access transactions, and manage non-technical risks to achieve enhanced project economics and maintain the necessary licenses to operate exploration projects in varied risk environments.

The course format utilises both lecture and workshop and stresses interactive thinking and problem solving. Participants will work in teams to design solutions to exploration management challenges and will present their results to the broader group.