Small inefficiencies across a gold plant compound quickly. Poor liberation, weak gravity performance, slow leaching, carbon fouling or goldroom losses each look minor on their own — together they can hold an operation well below its achievable recovery.
This program connects the full circuit — ore mineralogy, comminution, gravity recovery, cyanidation, CIL/CIP, elution, electrowinning and doré production — into a single practical learning experience, led by an experienced industry specialist. Participants leave knowing where gold is being lost in their own plant, which operating variables actually move recovery, and how to work a process problem through to a defensible answer.
What your team walks away with
The programme is built to deliver measurable operational value, not course completions:
Content can be adapted for mixed teams, or delivered separately for operators, technical specialists and leadership.
This is a working program, not a lecture series. Depending on the delivery format, participants work through:
Where confidentiality allows, we encourage clients to supply their own flowsheet, plant data and current operating challenges. Sessions built around a participant’s own numbers consistently produce the strongest outcomes.
Four ways to deliver it
Delivery is a separate choice again — it changes how a programme reaches your team, not what’s in it.
On-site block — the full programme delivered at your plant, built around your own flowsheet, data and current challenges.
Live virtual series — the same content in short online blocks over a few weeks, with minimal disruption to shift rosters.
Focused intensive — a 2–3 day deep dive into a single priority — CIL, gravity, goldroom or flotation of refractory ores etc. — rather than the whole circuit.
Hybrid — a virtual series followed by a shorter on-site workshop, for teams juggling travel and roster constraints.
The Building Blocks
Width — What’s on the Table
A 25-module library spans the full gold value chain, grouped into four bands. At full width, nothing in the flowsheet stays a black box; at narrow width, you take a single priority to depth.
Process-metallurgy foundations — the universal unit operations — comminution, classification, physical separation and flotation, materials handling and dewatering, sampling, metallurgical accounting and plant economics.
Extraction, recovery & route selection — the extractive-metallurgy science — aqueous chemistry and thermodynamics, leaching and dissolution kinetics, solution purification, electro- and pyrometallurgy, and route selection.
The gold circuit itself — deposits and mineralogy, preparation and beneficiation, extraction routes, purification and recovery, doré and refining, environment and by-products, and flowsheet integration.
Client-specific & current context — an operation case study, a technology spotlight and an annual developments briefing, all built around your own plant.
Across the gold circuit, that means concrete ground: gravity recovery and intensive leaching; cyanide chemistry and leach optimisation; CIL/CIP performance; activated-carbon management, elution and regeneration; electrowinning and cathode recovery; smelting and doré; refractory-gold treatment; and cyanide safety and environmental management.
Depth – Three Packages
Full Technical · 4 days — the complete gold circuit at full working depth, for the metallurgists, process engineers and technical-services staff who have to move recovery and cost.
Operator Level · 2 days — the practical operating essentials, focused on the variables your shift crews actually control on the plant.
Managerial Overview · 1 day — a plain-language tour of the whole circuit, its economics and its technology outlook, for leaders who need the picture without the theory (or basic theory).
How the Two Combine
Width picks the columns, depth picks the row. The standard combinations:
Technical Lead
More than 25 years across gold and multi-commodity metallurgy — plant management, EPCM project delivery and process optimisation on operations throughout Africa and Australia. An EduMine course developer and instructor, Rudi teaches metallurgy through cause and effect: understand why a process behaves as it does, and the diagnostic skill to fix it follows. Teams leave able to solve problems themselves, not just recall procedures.
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