Continuing Education

Introduction

The Department of Mining Engineering offers a series of one-week length courses, aimed to professionals and graduates, which objective is to deepen with sufficient details, techniques and develop applications that implicate the improvement of mining processes in which they are involved.

Location

Department of Mining Engineering – Tupper 2069, Santiago.

Hours

Monday to Friday, from 09:00 to 13:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00 hours.

Certification

Upon approval of the course, the student will receive a Certificate issued by the Department of Mining Engineering.

Cost

These courses have a cost of $750 - 1,100 USD per student.

Payment

  • Personal funding: Electronic transfer or web-pay before the beginning of the course.  
  • Company sponsored: Ask for more information

For more information

Department of Mining Engineering, University of Chile
Phone number: +562 29784503
Address: Tupper 2069 - Santiago de Chile

Note: The organizers reserve the right to cancel a course reserve, if enrollees do not conform to a necessary minimum and / or for reasons of force majeure.

Courses

  • Legal and Regulatory Environment
  • Mineral Market Analysis
  • Cost and Capital Investment Estimation
  • Geomechanics
  • Mining and Economic Development
  • Natural Resources Economy
  • Mining Activity Financing
  • Geological Ore Body Modelling
  • Geostatistics Applied to Ore Body Evaluation
  • Ore Body Modelling/ Sampling
  • Open Pit Design and Mine Planning
  • Resource Evaluation / Statistical Data Analysis
  • Underground Design and Mine Planning
  • Mine Design
  • Sampling and Quality Control for Ore Body Evaluation
  • Grades and Geology Statistical Simulation
  • Minerallurgical Processes Fundamentals
  • Risk and Mining Decision Analysis
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Mining
  • Socioeconomic Impacts of Mining
  • Wordwide Mining Competivity
  • Metallurgical Processes Fundamentals
  • Optimization and Logistics in Mining
  • Special Geostatistics Topics
  • Introduction to Mine Planning – Mining Projects Management and Evaluation

Faculty

  • Ernesto Arancibia, MBA, Tulane University, USA
  • Raúl Castro, PhD, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • Jorge Bande, MEc, American University, USA
  • Andrés Brzovic, PhD, Curtin University, Australia
  • Alejandro Cáceres, MS University of Chile, Chile
  • Jan Cademartori, PhD, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
  • Jesús Casas, PhD, University of Chile, Chile
  • Eduardo Contreras, PhD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Roderick Eggert, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  • Xavier Emery, PhD, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, France
  • Rafael Epstein, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Christian Ihle, PhD, University of Chile, Chile
  • Eduardo Magri, PhD University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  • Antoni Magri PhD, Cornell University, USA
  • Hugo Martínez, Mining Engineer, University of Chile, Chile
  • Patricio Meller, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • Gonzalo Montes, PhD, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France
  • Nelson Morales, PhD, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
  • Alfonso Ovalle, Mining Engineer, University of Chile, Chile
  • Daniel Packey , PhD, University of Oregon, USA
  • Héctor Parra, PhD, The University of Queensland, Australia
  • Cristián Quinzio, MA, The Fletcher School of Boston, USA
  • Gustavo Reyes, Mining Engineer, University of Chile, Chile
  • José Saavedra, PhD, Laurentian University, Canada
  • Magín Torres MS University of Chile, Chile
  • Brian Townley, PhD, Queen´s University, Canada
  • Javier Vallejos, PhD, Queen´s University, Australia
  • Leandro Voisin, PhD, Tohoku University, Japan
  • Jacques Wiertz, PhD, Université de Liège, Belgium
  • Juan Luis Yarmuch, PhD (c) Melbourne University, Australia
  • Kimie Suzuki, PhD (c) University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Francisco González, PhD (c) University of New South Wales, Australia
  • Luis Felipe Orellana, PhD (c) École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Francisco González, PhD (c) University of Queensland, Australia