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MINERALS INDUSTRY EDUCATION AND TRAINING II

Graduate Programs

There are a number of examples of graduate programs for metallurgists
that are either accredited or industry funded. In some cases mineralogy
is incorporated into these programs and this is described in the following
sections.

Accredited Programs

An example of an accredited graduate program is the EMerald Erasmus
Mundus Masters in Georesources Engineering (http://www.emerald.ulg.
ac.be/). This is a two year program developed by four partner universities
namely: Université de Liegè, Nancy Université, Luleå University of
Technology and TU Bergkademie Freiberg. Process mineralogy is one of
the courses taught in the first semester of the program.

Industry Funded Programs

Two examples of industry funded graduate programs for metallurgists
are briefly described here. The first was initiated in 2002 and was put
in place by Anglo American Platinum to provide a structured training
program for metallurgical graduates and is known as the Anglo Platinum
Graduate Development Program (AGDP) (Sweet et al, 2012). The program
was developed in conjunction with the University of Cape Town and
incorporates foundation and basic technical courses with structured site-
based practical exercises. The second example is the more recent MetSkill
program developed by JKTech in conjunction with the University of
Queensland (Drinkwater & Bianco, 2012). The program is modular and has
been designed to fast-track skills development in recent graduates and
process mineralogy is one of the specialist topics offered.

Professional Development

Face-to-face

The University of Cape Town has offered a professional development
(PD) short course in process mineralogy since 2005 (http://www.cmr.uct.

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