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 Descriptions

It is critical that whoever is responsible for a company’s tenements understands the meaning of expenditure on tenements is as its 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 around all aspects of tenements. All the different types, what you can and can’t do on them, what you need to do to make sure you don’t lose them. We provide the facts and figures along with real life and relatable examples.

This course is the deep dive into expenditure to ensure you are confident in understanding compliance with Form 5 expenditure 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 The course explains the Exemption from Expenditure process including DMIRS published and unpublished guidelines, and the Wardens and Supreme Court’s interpretation of expenditure.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 and this course is the perfect way to make sure that your tenements never experience this fate.

We make sure that you know what it means to meet expenditure commitments, that the structure of your record keeping complies electronic or paper Form 5s, and that you know how to monitor and accurately analyse your organisations expenditure or Combined Report Group expenditure. The more tenements you manage the more complicated it can become and the more strategic you need to be with allocating expenditure. Our course will help you understand 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 the role of 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 Descriptions

Acquiring and maintaining tenure in WA is highly competitive and 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 to develop your expertise in monitoring, compliance and land management.

Our course will give an overall understanding around all aspects of tenements. All the different types, what you can and can’t do on them, what you need to do to make sure you don’t lose them. We provide the facts and figures along with real life and 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 uncover some of the gotchas and hidden secrets to help you learn quicker and feel more confident about stepping up in your role relating to tenement management.

The content covered includes an understanding around 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 also a strong focus on the environmental compliance framework in the context of tenement management in WA.

From experience, our trainers make sure that you are working from the right dictionary around expenditure. It is important that expenditure, and what is included, is as its interpreted by the Mining Wardens and Supreme Court Judges! This can be very different to what is assumed to be included and we help you to know how to make sure you have the right understanding.

It takes a deep dive into understanding the nuanced meaning 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 will prepare you for these happening and make sure that you are in the best position to tackle them, along with knowing who to call if you need advice.

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

• AMethods 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 practical Navigating Exploration Agreements training for non lawyers in WA

Do you want to understand the legal jargon used in exploration agreements?

Want to understand why lawyers draft agreements like they do? Or you need to administer the agreement compliance in the company. Perhaps you need to draft a clear and concise letter related to agreement

Do you want to understand the legal jargon used in exploration agreements?

• no one else to ask
• no company manual or set of guidelines
• no&nbsppractical&nbsptraining available

Course Descriptions

The mining industry relies on agreements to sell and buy tenements, creating joint ventures and form relationships with numerous other parties. Their lawyers guide them through the legal maze in the creation stages then companies are all on their own during the compliance stage, until there is a breach and then it is too late.

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

The Navigating Exploration Agreements training course will guide you through the legal jargon used in joint venture and related agreements, give you a basic understanding of contract law to interpret these agreements so compliance is safely meet. Also, when there is a breach by either party to an agreement, you will recognise the breach and how to deal with it rather than walking into a situation blindly making decisions without any knowledge of law.

For the purpose of reviewing and writing joint venture agreements, Navigating Exploration Agreements training course will demonstrate the legal structure, the essential standard clauses terms of a joint venture agreement, building on the understanding of contract law gained in the course. The course is essential for anyone in the mining industry involved in mining agreements.

• 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

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

Course Descriptions

Environmental Essentials is, as the name implies, essential to all mining personnel that that are 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’ departments can become siloed 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 provided around Environmental Law (not taught at University) will help provide 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 you 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 delays are avoided.

Our trainers have years of experience in the industry and can 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 in order to help you become more confident and efficient in the areas of compliance and environmental management.

• 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