Micro-credential Tailings Dewatering Technologies
Program Overview
This micro-credential focuses on alternative tailings management techniques for practicing engineers and geoscientists. It covers enhanced dewatering, high-density tailings production, and filtered, unsaturated tailings. Completion of this online program contributes towards a Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This micro-credential is designed for professionals working in the field of tailings management, particularly practicing engineers, geoscientists, or individuals responsible for designing and/or operating tailings storage facilities. It focuses on alternative solutions for managing tailings and is the third in a series of three micro-credentials on Tailings Operations and Water Management.
Objectives:
Participants will gain knowledge about:
- Technologies used for enhanced dewatering to produce high-density, non-segregating tailings, as well as filtered, unsaturated tailings.
- Methods for transporting and depositing such material.
- Examples of successful projects currently using these approaches.
Teaching:
- Delivery Mode: Online
- Academic Lead: Professor Andy Fourie
Other:
- Effort: Total effort - 50 hours
- Cost: $1,100 inc. GST
- Recommended Prior Knowledge: It is highly recommended that students take MINEM521: Tailings Operations and MINEM522: Tailings Water Balance before taking MINEM523: Tailings Dewatering Technologies.
- Stackable: This micro-credential is one of a series of twelve micro-credentials that are stackable towards the Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management.
- Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management: The recent Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management has increased demand for tailings professionals while the industry faces a shortage of appropriately trained personnel. This micro-credential and the other eleven micro-credentials leading to the Graduate Certificate in Tailings Management will help professionals keep up with standards, technologies, and guidelines related to tailings management.
- Graduate Certificate Requirements: To apply for the Graduate Certificate award, you must have a Bachelor of Engineering degree or a degree in a related field and meet UWA's English language competency requirements.
