Our staff has many years of experience in providing specialised training both in English and Greek in the following topics:
- Introduction to computer-based mine planning
- Basic principles of geostatistics
- Geostatistical resource estimation
- Geological and resource modelling of stratigraphic deposits
- Geological modelling of non-stratigraphic deposits
- Advanced tools for surface and solid modelling
- Open pit design (stratigraphic and non stratigraphic)
- Underground mine design (stratigraphic and non stratigraphic)
- Surface blasting design
- Underground blasting design – ring design
- Grade control
- Output and plotting
- Perl/Python scripting
- Point clouds processing and modelling
We can also provide customised training programmes tailored to specific needs and applications. Training can take place in our laboratory, online, or on-site. Training is based on Maptek Vulcan, GeologyCore, PointStudio and Autodesk AutoCAD.
Previous training workshops
- 2024
- Mine Planning Workshop 2024: 7-day online training in underground mine planning with Maptek Vulcan for students and graduates.
- 2023
- Mine Planning Workshop 2023 – Train the trainer: 7-day online training in mine planning with Maptek Vulcan for university lecturers.
- 2022
- Mine Planning Workshop 2022: 7-day online training in surface mine planning with Maptek Vulcan for students and graduates.
- 2021
- Carmeuse SA: 4-day online training in Maptek Vulcan.
- 2018
- Carmeuse SA: 5-day training in geostatistical resource estimation in Belgium.
- ArcelorMittal, Liberia: 5-day onsite training in mine planning in Yekepa, Liberia.
- 2017
- LARCO GMMAE: 5-day onsite training of engineers in Maptek Vulcan, Agios Ioannis, Greece.
- VALE Mozambique SA: 5-day onsite training in mine planning, Tete, Mozambique.
- 2014
- Anagold: 5-day onsite training in Maptek Chronos at the Copler mine, Turkey.
- Lumwana Mining (Barrick Zambia): 2 weeks onsite training in Maptek Chronos and Perl scripting in Maptek Vulcan, at the Lumwana mine, Zambia.
- Managem/SMI: 5-day onsite training in geostatistical resource estimation of narrow silver veins of SMI, in Morocco.
- 2013
- Anagold: 5-day onsite training in geostatistics at the Copler mine, Turkey.
- Carmeuse SA: 4-day specialised training on Maptek Vulcan in Belgium.
- 2012
- Lumwana Mining (Barrick Zambia): 2 weeks onsite training in geostatistics and mine scheduling with Maptek Vulcan / Chronos, at the Lumwana mine, Zambia.
- Woulfe Mining Corp.: 4-day onsite training in geostatistics at the Sangdong mine, South Korea.
- Cobre Las Cruces: 5-day onsite training in geostatistics with Maptek Vulcan, in Seville, Spain.
- 2011
- Wardrop Engineering Inc: 5-day introduction to Vulcan training in Swindon, UK.
- ArcelorMittal, Liberia: 10-day onsite training on introduction to Vulcan, geological modelling, grade estimation, pit optimisation and design, in Yekepa, Liberia.
- Woulfe Mining Corp.: 4-day introduction to Vulcan onsite training in Sangdong, South Korea.
- LARCO GMMAE: 5-day mine planning training using Maptek Vulcan for the mine planning team in Kastoria, Greece.
- Lumwana Mining (Barrick Zambia): 10-day onsite training on geostatistics and scripting with Maptek Vulcan, at the Lumwana mine, Zambia.
- 2007
- LARCO GMMAE: 18-days training on a wide range of processes including introduction to Vulcan, geological databases, geological modelling, geostatistics, block modelling, pit optimisation and design, road design and modelling, in Athens, Greece.
- 2006
- Carmeuse SA: 3-day introduction to Vulcan in Kozani, Greece.
- Carmeuse SA: 3-day training on block modelling, resource estimation and open pit design with Maptek Vulcan in Belgium.
