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2025- Professional Training Courses

Agate project and WAXI training courses have been developed in collaboration with industry and universities professionals and cover a range of advanced geoscientific topics (not always covered by local curriculum). 

  • Relations communautaires à l’exploration: 23 to 25 june 2025
  • Mineralising Systems and Discovery Strategy: 18 to 22 August 2025
  • Management in Mineral Exploration: 25 to 29 August 2025 (Abidjan)
  • Management in Mineral Exploration: 15 to 19 September 2025 (Nairobi)
  • Geophysical and structural approach to lithotectonic mapping of sedimentary basins: 29 September to 3 October 2025
  • Structural Geophysics: 13 to 17 October 2025
  • QGIS from the Office to the Field: 13 to 18 October 2025
  • Structurally Controlled Hydrothermal Alteration in Orogenic/Intrusion-related Gold Systems: Date to be confirmed 2025
  • Sediment hosted base metal sulphides and iron deposits: 3 to 7 November 2025
  • Structural analysis through field mapping and implications for metallogeny: 2 to 10 December 2025

Community Relations at Exploration

This three-day course is designed specifically for geoscientists, community relations workers, consultants, and early-stage regulators working in mineral exploration. It aims to help professionals develop the necessary skills and knowledge to build strong relationships with communities in the context of resource exploration.

Mineralising Systems and Discovery Strategy

Through lectures, group exercises, and workshop discussions, participants will be able to critically assess which approaches and strategies will have the most significant impact on their discovery success. Registration Fees: US$1,800 per person for WAXI sponsors and US$2,200 for non-WAXI sponsors. 

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Management in Mineral Exploration x 2

This five-day course is aimed at Exploration Managers or anyone who aspires to become one within the next few years. It will also serve as a useful introduction to the mineral exploration business for any non-technical professionals who track the activities of mineral explorers in the market or others in the industry. Registration Fees: US$1,800 per person for WAXI sponsors and US$2,200 for non-WAXI sponsors. 

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Structural Geology

Further Information on this training course will be available shortly

Geophysical and structural approach to lithotectonic mapping of sedimentary basins

This 5-day training course is designed for geologists who want to advance their knowledge of contemporary integrated structural geophysics mapping techniques of sedimentary basins.
Registration Fees: US$1,800 per person for WAXI sponsors and US$2,200 for non-WAXI sponsors. 

Géophysique structurale

This course will introduce modern analysis techniques applied to the interpretation of regional geophysical data. Attendees will be provided with custom Open Source QGIS plugins and taught how to process magnetic grids, create complete maps from their interpretations, build 3D geological models, and perform geophysical inversions.Registration fees: US$1,7500 per person for WAXI sponsors and US$1,900 for non-WAXI sponsors.

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QGIS from the Office to the Field

This course is aimed at geologists who wish to improve their skill base in modern integrated Structural Geophysics mapping techniques. It will provide an introduction to modern analysis techniques applied to the interpretation of regional geophysical data. Registration fees are US$1,7500 per person for WAXI sponsors and US$1,900 for non-WAXI sponsors.

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Geochemical exploration: methods and analysis of data

This training course focuses on geochemical techniques applied to mineral exploration, offering comprehensive coverage of essential topics such as sampling strategies, sample preparation, and statistical data analysis. It is aimed at Geologists who want to pursue geochemical exploration further and learn more from the large amount of data collected. Registration Fees: US$2,100*  per person for WAXI sponsors & US$2,450* for non-WAXI sponsors.

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Structurally controlled Hydrothermal Alteration in Orogenic/Intrusion-related Gold Systems

This three-day training course, including lectures and hands-on exercises, will provide a mineral system analysis of orogenic/intrusion-related gold, including its structural, hydrothermal alteration/mineralization, and fluid chemistry control at epi, meso, and hypogonadal crustal levels.

Registration Fees: US$1,200 per person for WAXI sponsors and US$1,350 for non-WAXI sponsors. 

Sediment hosted base metal sulphides and iron deposits

This 5-day training course is aimed at field geologists interested in base metal and iron deposits in sedimentary basins. Registration Fees: US$1,750* per person for WAXI sponsors and US$1,900* for non-WAXI sponsors. 

Structural analysis through field mapping and implications for metallogeny

This nine-day training (including two days spent travelling to the field) is intended for geologists who want to expand their skills in conducting field mapping, use the collected data to perform structural analysis and generate comprehensive structural models, and Improve their understanding of the implications of deformation processes and structures on mineralisation. This training focuses on hands-on learning, with fieldwork in the mornings and theory sessions in the afternoons.
Registration Fees: US $3,500 per person for WAXI sponsors and US $3,800 for non-WAXI sponsors. 

The organisers reserve the right to cancel any training if the minimum requirement of 10 participants is not met.

Previous Training Courses

  • Structural Analysis Through Field Mapping and Implications for Metallogeny:24_25_CRS_0030- Senegal, 22-11 December 2024
  • Advanced Applied Structural Geology: 24_25_CRS_0026- Cote d’Ivoire, 28 October-2 November 2024
  • Geochemical Exploration Methods and Analysis of Data: 24_25_CRS_0026- Togo, 19-23 October 2024
  • QGIS From the Office to the Field: 24_25_CRS_0025- Togo, 15-20 October 2024
    Structural Geophysics: 24-25_CRS_0024- Togo, 10-14 October 2024
  • Introduction to Mineral Resource Estimation and Applied Mining Geostatistics: 24_25_CRS_0029- Online, 14-18 October 2024
  • Magmatism and Geodynamic Context: 23_24_CRS_0022- Cote d’Ivoire, 15-20 April 2024
  • Applied Structural Geology: 23_24_CRS_ 0019- Morocco, 5-16 March 2024
  • Mineralising Systems and Discovery Strategy: 23_24_CRS0021- Ghana, 26 February-1St March 2024
  • Management in Mineral Exploration: 23_24_CRS0020- Ghana, 12-16 February 2024
    Inversion of Regional Mag Data: 23_24_CRS_0018- Cote d’Ivoire,16-18 October 2023
  • Lithostratigraphic and Structural Analysis of Precambrian Terranes: 23_24_CRS_0017- Yamoussoukro,14-20 October 2023
  • Geophysical and Structural Approach to Lithotectonic mapping of Sedimentary Basins: 23_24_CRS_0016
  • Introduction to the Use of Python in Mining Exploration: 23_24_CRS_0015
  • Géologie Structurale, Géophysique Régionale et Instrument Portables pour la Cartographie de Terrain: 22_23_CRS_0014
  • Magmatism and Geodynamic Context: 22_23_CRS_0013- Cote d’Ivoire, 25-30 April 2023
  • Structural Geophysics: 22_23_CRS_0012- Sierra Leone,
  • Géophysique Régionale et Instrument Portables pour la Cartographie de Terrain: Cote d’ivoire,16-20 May 2022
  • Géologie Structurale, Géophysique Régionale et Instrument Portables pour la Cartographie de Terrain: 21_22_CRS_0010
  • Critical Evaluation of 3D Models: Online, 24-26 May 2021
  • Structural Geophysics:20_21_CRS_0005- Online, 28 June-2 July 2022
  • Structural Geophysics:20_21_CRS_0003- Online, 22-26 March 2021
  • Applied Structural Geology: 20_21_CRS_0001- Online, 21-25 September 2020

In House Trainings

  • Introduction to the Use of Python in Mining Exploration, 2nd to 6th October 2023, Marrakesh, Morocco – Managem
  • Structural and applied geology, 4th – 9th March 2024, mine site, Morocco – Managem
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