Course Description
Mine planning integrates geology, engineering, economics, and scheduling to turn a mineral resource into a viable, optimised mining operation. This course develops the principles and practice of mine planning and design across the planning horizons.
Participants learn strategic, tactical, and operational mine planning — from converting resources to reserves and optimising the mining sequence, through to production scheduling and reconciliation. The course covers the role of mine planning software, cut-off grade optimisation, and the economic evaluation that underpins planning decisions, equipping professionals to understand and contribute to modern mine planning.
What you will achieve
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the mine planning process and horizons
- Convert resources to mineable reserves
- Apply cut-off grade concepts and optimisation
- Develop strategic and tactical mine plans
- Produce production schedules
- Understand the role of mine planning software
- Apply economic evaluation to mine planning
- Understand reconciliation and plan compliance
How the course is delivered
The course combines mine planning theory with practical planning and scheduling exercises across planning horizons. Participants work through resource-to-reserve conversion, cut-off grade, and scheduling using realistic scenarios.
The programme balances strategic planning with the practical production scheduling and economic evaluation that drive mining decisions.
Designed for
This training course is ideal for:
- Mine planning and mining engineers
- Technical services professionals
- Geologists moving into planning
- Operations managers
- Anyone involved in mine planning
Daily programme
- The mine planning process
- Planning horizons: strategic to operational
- Resources to reserves
- The role of mine planning software
- Cut-off grade theory
- Cut-off grade optimisation
- The mining sequence
- Value optimisation
- Strategic mine planning
- Life-of-mine planning
- Tactical planning
- Phase and stage planning
- Production scheduling
- Equipment and capacity planning
- Scheduling constraints
- Blending and stockpiling
- Economic evaluation in planning
- Risk in mine planning
- Reconciliation and plan compliance
- Workshop and review
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.
