Leadership in Sustainable Mine Closure Program
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Full program description
Help meet current and future demand for mine closure skills from the mining industry and other stakeholders.
This Program will increase your awareness of mine closure and post-closure issues both within the mining industry and amongst other key stakeholders, particularly First Nation peoples who may have connections to or interests in mining areas. You will learn what is good practice in mine closure and post-closure operations; and consider mine closure and post-closure issues throughout the lifecycle of mining and processing facilities. This program may give you the skills to further your career in the field of mine closure in the mining industry.
There are three interconnected courses which form this Program covering the social, environmental, financial and technical elements of closure. Courses can be taken any particular order based on learner requirements.
Rio Tinto is proud to partner with Curtin University and University of British Columbia - BRIMM on the creation of the “Leadership in Sustainable Mine Closure Program”, aimed at showcasing best practice and pathways for effective, ethical, sustainable and socially responsible mine closure.
Delivered by BRIMM at the University of British Columbia.
Mine closure is an issue of growing importance for mining companies, the communities that host operations, indigenous peoples, and governments with regulatory oversight of closure planning. In the coming years, the world’s top miners are expected to spend over $50 billion (USD) closing mines and managing legacy sites. For many stakeholders and rightsholders, there is a growing expectation that successful closure plans will go beyond remediation and short-term technical solutions to consider the complex socio-economic aspects of closure. Best practice planning is now expected to include measures that support a just transition for workers, communities, and governments as the jobs, taxes, royalties, and philanthropic investments associated with producing mines diminish and then disappear.
In this course, we will examine the social and environmental dimensions of mine closure. We will take guidance from best practice frameworks for closure, examine applied cases to analyse issues of interest and hear from experts working in the field.