Understanding Tenement Expenditure

Our expenditure training will deepen your understanding of recording and reporting requirements for exploration and mining expenditure in WA.

Essential learning if you’re an exploration or mining professional who’s:

• looking to grow your skill set and boost your competitive edge
• interested in improving your mining organisation’s strategic project spending
• managing mining tenements in WA

Course Description

It is critical that whoever is responsible for your company’s tenements understands the importance of expenditure commitment on tenements as defined under the Mining Act and in the Courts. It can, and will, cost you your tenement if you get this wrong!

Our course will give an overall understanding of all aspects of tenements. We cover all different licence types, what you can and can’t do on them, and what you need to do to make sure you don’t lose them. We provide the facts and figures along with real life, relatable examples.

This course is a deep dive into expenditure to ensure that you are confident in understanding compliance with Form 5 reporting and the accompanying exemptions from expenditure. The course explains the Exemption from Expenditure process, including DMIRS published and unpublished guidelines, and the Wardens and Supreme Court’s interpretation of expenditure. An application for forfeiture is something no company wants to see slapped on their tenements, this course is the perfect way to make sure that you never experience this fate.

We ensure that you know what it means to meet expenditure commitments, and that the structure of your record keeping complies with requirements for  electronic/paper Form 5s. You will leave confident knowing how to monitor and accurately analyse your organisations expenditure or Combined Report Group expenditure. The more tenements you manage, the more complicated it becomes and the more strategic you need to be with allocating expenditure. Our course teaches how to better manage expenditure on a range of tenements and what to watch out for as you move from exploration to mining.

• Allowable Expenditure
• Court Cases Influencing expenditure
• Coding your expenditure
• Strategic Expenditure to Meet Commitments
• Overcoming Drawbacks of Common Accounting Systems
• Exemptions of Expenditure
• Working with Data Sources
• Using Excel to Analyse and Report on Expenditure

Advanced Tenement Management

Training that demystifies your role as a mining tenement manager and develops your expertise in compliance and land management.

Perfect for you if you’re a:

• current tenement management professional ready for career growth
• mining compliance professional seeking to broaden your knowledge
• mining professional involved with tenement management

Course Description

Acquiring and maintaining tenure in WA is highly competitive, a small mistake caused by a lack of knowledge can be fatal for tenement application and management. This course builds on Practical Tenement Management and assists in developing your expertise in monitoring, compliance and land management.

Our course will give an overall understanding of all aspects of tenements. We cover all different licence types, what you can and can’t do on them, and what you need to do to make sure you don’t lose them. We provide the facts and figures along with real life, relatable examples.

So many tenement managers are self-taught, normally through trial and error, and thus lack a holistic understanding of tenement management. This course offers a great chance to discover some of the gotchas and hidden secrets of the industry, helping you learn quicker and feel more confident about stepping up in your role relating to tenement management.

The content covered includes an understanding of the PoW process, developments and effects of resource law in WA on tenements, and the best ways to view, understand and audit tenure information. There is a strong focus on the environmental compliance framework in the context of tenement management in WA.

Our experienced trainers make sure that you are working from the right dictionary surrounding expenditure. It is important that Form 5 expenditure, and what can be included, is processed as interpreted by the Mining Wardens and Supreme Court Judges! This can be very different to what is assumed to be included, we give you the tools to ensure that you have the correct understanding.

We take a deep dive into understanding the nuances of expenditure in WA as interpreted by the Mining Wardens & Supreme Court Judges.

The course will cover the exceptions to the rules and the things you don’t see every day. We prepare you for these events and make sure that you are in the best position to tackle them with confidence, along with knowing who to call if you need advice.

Go from 'I think I know', to 'I know I know'!

• Methods for Monitoring Tenure
• Strategically Acquiring Tenure
• Recent Development in WA Mining Industry
• Exploration and Programmes of Work
• Understanding the Nuances of Expenditure in the Wardens Court
• Rehabilitation, MRF and AER Reporting
• Environmental Compliance for Tenements
• What to do when things go wrong

Navigating Exploration Agreements

WA’s only Exploration Agreement Training for non-lawyers

The mining industry relies on agreements to buy and sell tenements, create joint ventures, form relationships with numerous organisations and groups.

Therefore, if you are involved with any agreement you need to understand the legal jargon used and understand why lawyers draft agreements like they do.

Learning on the job can be tough to know where to start when there is:

• need to decipher or are involved with exploration agreements
• are involved in the purchasing or selling of tenements
• want clear and practical information

LandTrack Systems provides a training course to give you a basic understanding of how to review, manage and write agreements related to the mining industry.

Course Description

The mining industry relies on agreements to sell and buy tenements, create joint ventures, and form relationships with numerous parties. Lawyers guide companies through the legal maze during the creation stages, then companies are left to fend for themselves during the compliance stage. They will continue to work alone until there is a breach, then it is too late.

It is imperative when operating in the mining industry that you understand the legal jargon used, whether it is drafting the initial memorandum of understanding, reviewing agreements, or interpreting the compliance requirements of an agreement. The law behind agreements between parties is not all legislated, it relies heavily upon common law built up over centuries. This common law heavily influences the construction and operation of an agreement through to the termination and discharge of an agreement.

The Navigating Exploration Agreements training course will guide you through the legal jargon used in joint venture and related agreements. It will give you a basic understanding of contract law which can be used to interpret these agreements, ensuring compliance is met. You'll leave confidently knowing that if either party breaches an agreement, rather than blindly making decisions without knowledge of law, you'll be able to recognise the breach and know how to deal with it.

For reviewing and writing joint venture agreements, this course demonstrates the legal structure and the essential standard clauses terms of these agreements, building on the understanding of contract law gained in the course. Navigating Exploration Agreements is essential for anyone in the industry involved in mining agreements, or anyone looking to broaden their scope in Tenement Management.

• Basics of Contract Law
• Precedents and Contract Law
• Legal Drafting
• Negotiation and Mediation
• Legal structures of joint venture agreements
• Joint Venture terms and standard clauses
• Navigating Joint Venture Agreements
• Royalties in Agreements
• Legislation and Navigating Native Title Agreements

Environmental Essentials WA

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Learn the basics of Environmental Management in WA’s mining industry with this hands-on training using a combination of theory and case studies.

Crucial professional development if you’re:

• new to a mining environmental role
• seeking practical training about the environmental legislation affecting exploration and mining in WA
• a mining professional who needs to understand environmental compliance obligations relating to constructing mine infrastructure
• wanting to understand the pre and post construction and closure environmental compliance obligations

Lots of useful explanations around the process of preparing and submitting Form 5s. The tips for exemptions of common mistakes were worth the cost of the course

Mike, Operations Manager  

Course Description

Environmental Essentials is, as the name implies, essential to all mining personnel involved in mine development, undertaking exploration or any activity relating to environmental legislation and regulation along with dealings with the EPA regulators.

Within many companies, the different departments can become siloed from one another and information can be hard to find. This course is aimed at assisting other departments and individuals in understanding and appreciating the environmental considerations relating to mining operations and maintaining tenements. The overview of Environmental Law (not taught at University) provides an understanding relative to mining in order to avoid making a mistake that could delay mine development for years.

The content covers an overview of the State and Commonwealth Environmental Legislation, ranging from the EPAct, EPBC Act, Contaminated Sites Act and helps to highlight the relationships with each other and the Mining Act. The course navigates through the Approvals for Mine Proposals requirements and guidelines, including the EIAs, and Mine Closure standards and expectations. We also cover the Native Veg Clearing, Pollution and Waste Management legislation. This may not be the area in which you work but having an understanding of it all can ensure more efficient and effective decisions are made and costly delays are avoided.

With their years of industry experience, our trainers will guide you through the bewildering confusion of legislation and give you tips on handling the EPA assessors. As part of this training, we share our industry knowledge and experience to help you become more confident and efficient in the areas of compliance and environmental management.

Sections Covered:

• What is Environmental Management?
• Overview of Environmental Law in WA
• (Mining) Environmental Approvals
• Exploration and Programmes of Work
• Mine Rehabilitation and Closure
• EP Act 1986 Part V
• Pollution
• Biodiversity Conservation
• General Compliance Reporting
• Environmental Management Systems