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Turn complex mine planning concepts into clear, practical skills you can use every day.
The Mine Planning Clarity Toolkit is a step-by-step course designed for mining professionals, students, and enthusiasts who want to understand and apply mine planning with confidence. Using plain language, vivid examples, and hands-on tools, the course strips away jargon and focuses on what really matters: making good mining decisions under real-world constraints.
What you’ll learn:
🪨 Foundations of Mine Planning — from inputs and block models to cut-off grades
⛏️ Optimisation Made Simple — LG, Pseudoflow, nested shells, and revenue factors explained clearly
🚜 Pushbacks & Staging — how to turn 20 shells into 3–4 mineable stages
🏗️ Transition Planning — knowing when to stop the pit and go underground
⚙️ Processing & Recovery — integrating metallurgy, blending, and stockpiles
📊 Practical Tools — Excel templates, stage pickers, and dashboards you can use immediately
Why this course?
Plain-language explanations of technical mining topics
Real industry examples that make the “aha!” moments stick
Downloadable templates and dashboards included in each module
Designed for both beginners (to build confidence) and professionals (to sharpen skills)
👉🏽 The Mine Planning Clarity Toolkit is more than a course — it’s a practical guide that helps you see the whole mine plan clearly, from rocks to cashflow.
If you’ve ever wanted to truly understand how underground mines are designed, scheduled, and evaluated — not just the software clicks or drawings, but the actual reasoning behind every engineering decision — this masterclass is for you.
This course gives you a complete, practical, and deeply technical understanding of the entire underground mine planning framework. You don’t just learn what planners do — you learn why, how, and in what order decisions should be made.
You will learn the principles used in real mines to:
interpret orebodies
assess rock mass behavior
choose the correct mining method
design declines, levels, and stopes
sequence extraction safely
size fleets professionally
calculate costs
evaluate mine profitability
and optimize the entire operation
This is underground mine planning explained with clarity, technical depth, and operational wisdom.
Most mine planning content is either:
too shallow,
too software-focused,
too theoretical, or
scattered across textbooks and PDFs.
This course fixes that.
It blends:
engineering fundamentals,
geotechnical logic,
planning workflows,
real-world examples,
technical equations,
method selection rules,
scheduling logic,
cost modelling,
and professional checklists
into a single end-to-end masterclass you can study, reference, and use immediately.
This is the underground planning education mining schools don’t teach — but every operation depends on.
Perfect for:
Underground mine planners
Graduate mining engineers
Geologists & geotechnical engineers
Supervisors transitioning to technical roles
Consultants & contractors
Students preparing for technical interviews
Anyone who wants to understand how underground mines really work
If you want to feel confident discussing UG design, scheduling, or economics — this course is for you.
The entire decision chain from geology to economics.
Understand how everything fits logically together.
Orebody interpretation.
RMR, Q, UCS.
Stability rules.
Stope size logic.
Geometry → Geotech → Production → Cost → Dilution → Recovery.
Learn the professional rules used to choose LHOS, CAF, SLS, R&P, or Caving.
Declines. Levels. Crosscuts. Ventilation routes. Infrastructure.
How real mines convert method into physical design.
Stope sequencing. Fleet sizing. Backfill windows.
NPV, IRR, unit cost, cashflow.
Turn design into a real, executable mining operation.
Written in professional engineering style, yet clear enough for fast learning.
Method selection guide, stability calculator, fleet formulas, risk checklist, and more.
Fleet sizing calculator
Stope sequencing matrix
Geotech envelope summary
OPEX & CAPEX reference formulas
Planning checklists
Visual planning frameworks
Everything is clean, simple to export, and structured for easy reference.
After this course, you will be able to:
understand planning conversations at a senior level
design realistic and safe underground layouts
build production schedules that make sense
size underground fleets professionally
make geotechnically informed decisions
evaluate mine economics confidently
improve your planning workflow
accelerate your career progression
You’ll think like a real underground planner — not just a software operator.
Whether you're planning career growth, preparing for interviews, entering a new planning role, or strengthening your technical foundation…
this masterclass will elevate your understanding to a professional level.
No subscription.
No expiry.
Lifetime access.
Frequent updates included.
This is the ultimate underground mine planning resource for serious professionals.