Continuing Education

Introduction

The Department of Mining Engineering of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the Universidad de Chile offers a series of courses aimed at professionals and graduates (engineers from various disciplines) whose objective is to deepen technical knowledge and develop applications that bring about innovative improvements in mining processes.

Certification

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

Class Format

Online – Zoom Platform

Schedule

The schedule will depend on the course selected. Further information (content, schedules, etc.) may be requested from the Postgraduate Diploma Coordination Office at diploma@minas.uchile.cl

Payment Method

• Personal financing: Via Webpay before the course begins.
• Company-sponsored: Via a purchase order issued before the course begins. For foreign companies, payment must be made before the course begins.

For more information

Department of Mining Engineering, Universidad de Chile
Address: Beauchef 850, Santiago de Chile

• Ingrid Thiele: ingrid.thiele@uchile.cl
• Johanna Inostroza: johanna.inostroza@uchile.cl
• Verónica Möller: vmoller@uchile.cl

Note: The organizers reserve the right to cancel a course if the number of enrolled participants does not meet the required minimum and/or due to reasons of force majeure.

Courses

• Geological Models of Mineral Deposits 
• Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics 
• Cost Estimation and Capital Investment 
• Fundamental Mathematics and Statistics for Modeling in Mining and Metallurgy 
• Mineral Deposit Models and Sampling
• Natural Resource Economics
• Geostatistics Applied to Mineral Deposit Evaluation
• Rock Excavations
• Elements of Statistical and Machine Learning for Modeling in Mining and Metallurgy
• Mineral Market Analysis
• Statistical Data Analysis and Resource Evaluation
• Sampling and Quality Control for Mineral Deposit Evaluation
• Mining and Economic Development
• Geomechanics in Selective and Massive Underground Mining
• Uncertainty Modeling and Decision-Making in Geosciences, Mining, and Metallurgy
• Mine Design
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Mining
• Geostatistical Simulation of Geology and Grades
• Geomechanics in Open-Pit Mining
• Advanced Analytics for Mining and Metallurgical Processes
• Socioeconomic Impacts of Mining
• Special Topics in Geostatistics
• Introduction to Mine Planning and Mining Project Evaluation
• Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics
• Financing of Mining Activity
• Image Modeling and Processing in Mining and Metallurgy
• Fundamentals of Mineral Processing
• Global Competitiveness in Mining

Intructors 

• Raúl Castro, PhD, The University of Queensland, Australia
• Emilio Castillo, PhD, Colorado School of Mines, USA
• Eduardo Contreras, PhD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• Roderick Eggert, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Xavier Emery, PhD, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, France
• Willy Kracht, PhD, McGill University, Canada
• Eduardo Magri, PhD, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Antoni Magri, PhD, Cornell University, USA
• Mohammad Maleki, PhD, Universidad de Chile
• Patricio Meller, PhD, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• Nadia Mery, Master's, Universidad de Chile
• Gonzalo Montes, PhD, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France
• José Munizaga, PhD, Laurentian University, Canada
• Luis Felipe Orellana, PhD, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Daniel Packey, PhD, University of Oregon, USA
• Rigoberto Rimmelin, Master's, Universidad de Chile
• Sebastián Santamaría, LLM, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom
• Fabián Soto, MSc in Mining, Civil Computer Engineer, Universidad de Chile
• Brian Townley, PhD, Queen's University, Canada
• Javier Vallejos, PhD, Queen's University, Australia
• Marcelo Vargas, MA, Universidad de Chile
• David Vargas, MSc, Georgetown University, USA
• Hernán Vives, Civil Mining Engineer, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
• Leandro Voisin, PhD, Tohoku University, Japan
• Juan Luis Yarmuch, PhD, Melbourne University, Canadá 
• Jacques Wiertz, PhD, Université de Liège, Belgium