Course Description
Closure liability is incurred on the first day of mining and settled on the last. Regulators require closure plans and financial provision from the outset; investors price the liability; and communities judge the company on what remains after the trucks leave.
This course develops mine closure capability. Participants learn the closure concept and regulatory drivers, closure planning through the mine lifecycle, closure objectives and completion criteria, landform design and rehabilitation, acid rock drainage and long-term water quality, tailings and waste facility closure, infrastructure decommissioning, social transition and community outcomes, financial provisioning and its assurance, and post-closure monitoring and relinquishment.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain closure drivers: regulatory, financial and social
- Plan closure across the mine lifecycle
- Set closure objectives and completion criteria
- Design landforms and rehabilitation strategies
- Manage acid rock drainage and long-term water quality
- Close tailings and waste facilities
- Address social transition and community outcomes
- Build financial provisioning and post-closure monitoring
How the course is delivered
The course combines closure planning with practical exercises in completion criteria, landform design and provisioning using realistic mine scenarios.
The programme treats closure as a design problem addressed from the start rather than a decommissioning exercise at the end, because the cost and feasibility of closure are largely determined by decisions made during operations.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Environmental and closure managers in mining
- Mine planning and technical services engineers
- Community relations and social performance staff
- Finance professionals provisioning closure liability
- Anyone accountable for closure outcomes
Daily programme
- Why closure matters: regulatory, financial, social
- The closure concept and progressive closure
- Closure planning through the lifecycle
- Closure objectives and completion criteria
- Landform design and stability
- Rehabilitation and revegetation
- Acid rock drainage prediction and management
- Long-term water quality and treatment
- Tailings facility closure
- Waste rock and pit closure
- Infrastructure decommissioning
- Contaminated land
- Social transition and community outcomes
- Workforce transition
- Financial provisioning and assurance
- Post-closure monitoring, relinquishment, workshop
Certification & accreditation
BII Certificate of Completion
BII Certificate of Completion Upon successful completion, participants receive a BII Development Institute Certificate of Completion with a unique reference code that is independently verifiable. Our certificates are recognised internationally and reflect successful completion of your chosen programme.
