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AEES Executive Certificate in Mining project leadership

Frame a mining project, a capex and a decision to go or stop. This AEES certification attests mining project leadership.

  • AssessmentProfessional assessment
  • Attempts2
  • PreparationIncluded
  • France
  • Canada
Description

Mining project leadership

A vague familiarity with “Mining project leadership” is no longer enough. This belongs with Mining and territory. You hold a mining project, a social licence, local content and acceptance. People are hired to decide, not just to name the topic. This AEES certification is for professionals, managers and leaders who want to frame a mining project, judge a capex and decide to go or stop. No diploma is required. What is required is a working command of written French, and the will to show the subject on a real file, in a company, a public body or a partner organisation.

You are not joining a long degree. You take “Mining project leadership” seriously enough to use it, and seriously enough for someone else to read it on a file. Everything happens online, around a job you already have. You prepare if you need to, then you sit a professional assessment. The AEES Executive Certificate, if it is issued, is proof in your name, and it can be checked. It holds in a CV, a move or a cooperation. It is a short specialisation, issued by a higher-education institution. You see at once what you are buying: a targeted title, not a course catalogue.

Afterwards you can carry “Mining project leadership” into a team, a file or a new responsibility, and explain your choices to a manager, a funder or a partner institution. Others will see that you can frame a mining project, judge a capex and decide to go or stop, including outside your own organisation. If you succeed, AEES issues an AEES Executive Certificate in your name, with a unique serial number that can be checked in the public register. The award stays in your workspace. It shows a professional judgement you have demonstrated, useful for a CV, a new post or work in common.

Skills

What this certificate attests

The capabilities the assessment attests if you pass.

  • Frame a mining project
  • Judge a capex
  • Decide to go or stop
  • See the critical path: road
  • Pass a stage or refuse the incomplete file
  • Write the no-go before costs decide for you
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Preparation included

To prepare for the assessment

After purchase, a preparatory course is available: 6 written modules, without an instructor, at your own pace. You are not required to follow it before opening the assessment. Each module sets out the notions, a commented case, the points to keep and a FAQ. It covers Resource, Permit, Capex and Schedule.

When you are ready, you enter the assessment: a file already open, incomplete facts, conflicting views. You move through successive decisions. This is not a full taught programme with pedagogical supervision.

Structured written course

Notions, objectives and concrete examples, organised progressively.

Applied case

A commented professional situation to anchor the theory.

FAQ and preparation

Frequent doubts, then questions to go further on your own.

  1. Resource: Reading a deposit as a risk, not a certainty In mining, the word resource often sounds reassuring. Numbers appear precise. Models look crisp. Yet a resource is a hypothesis constrained by data density, geological understanding, and assumptions that can move quickly with new drilling or different prices. Treating a deposit as a certainty at this stage is how cost overruns and stranded assets begin. This module focuses on how to read a resource as a risk. You will learn to decode public reports, test the credibility of tonnage and grade, pressure test cut-off choices, and examine the bridge between resource and reserve where most project value is lost or created. You will not become a geologist in a week. You will become a better project leader who asks the right questions and puts numbers in their proper risk box.
  2. AEES Executive Certificate in Mining Project Leadership, Module 2: Permit Mines do not start with shovels. They start with the right to act. In mining, a permit is not a single stamp. It is a portfolio of legal authorizations, consents, conditions, and ongoing obligations that together let you plan, build, operate, and close. Missing one critical right can stall a project that is otherwise ready. Overlooking one condition can trigger a costly stop. This module shows you how to map permits, place them on the schedule, and protect decision gates. You will learn to build a complete permit register, to identify the permits and approvals that drive your critical path, and to judge when an application is complete enough to submit. The road often sits on the critical path. We will treat it as a test of your discipline: no road, no mobilization.
  3. Module 3/6, Capex for Mining Project Leadership Capital spending is where mining projects live or die. Good geology and a permit can still fail if the capital plan is not grounded in scope, constructability, and risk. This module trains you to judge capex quality, decide what to spend now versus later, and keep options open until uncertainty is reduced. You will use a structured method recognized across industries: scope definition through a work breakdown structure, estimate class and maturity, base cost, indirects and owner’s costs, contingency built from risk, escalation and foreign exchange, and the phasing that turns a number into a schedule-backed funding plan. You will link capex to the gate you are at, rather than trying to do a definitive estimate on preliminary data.
  4. AEES Executive Certificate (Mining Project Leadership) Module 4: Schedule Mining projects live and die on sequence and timing. A mine can have a robust resource and a disciplined capex plan yet still fail if the road, power, water, or community agreements arrive late. This module focuses on the schedule as an executive tool. You will learn to see the network, find the true drivers, and manage uncertainty where it matters most. The public synopsis of this module is direct: see the critical path. In remote or frontier areas the path often runs through offsite infrastructure and social milestones, not the process plant. Roads and ports, grid connection or generation, water rights and infrastructure, and community consent can each control first ore. The schedule must show these external paths with the same rigor you apply to engineering and construction.
  5. AEES Executive Certificate, Module 5/6: Gate Mining projects move through discrete stages. Each stage creates knowledge and reduces uncertainty. A Gate is the moment when leaders decide whether the project has earned the right to proceed. It is not a status meeting. It is a formal decision point with clear deliverables, objective criteria, and explicit accountability. This module shows you how to pass a stage or refuse an incomplete file. You will learn how to test the quality of inputs, frame a decision that balances value and risk, and document a decision that stands up to scrutiny. You will also practice writing a no-go early, so you protect capital and management attention instead of letting costs and momentum decide for you.
  6. Module 6/6, Stop: Write the no-go before costs decide for you In mining, delay and cost growth are not neutral. Once capital starts moving, options narrow and the project can become locked into a path that is costly to exit. The Stop module teaches you to write the no-go before costs decide for you. You will define explicit triggers, test the economic and non-economic boundaries of your project, and produce a clear decision note that can withstand scrutiny. Stopping is not failure. It is leadership that preserves capital, reputation, and optionality. A disciplined no-go can come before, at, or even after a formal gate if new information invalidates the case. You will learn to distinguish a clean kill from a strategic hold, and to communicate both in a way that aligns boards, partners, communities, and regulators.