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Fundamentals and Applications Confirmed 2008 DATES:
COURSE OBJECTIVEThis is a comprehensive course designed to provided fundamental, laboratory and industrial training in Fire Assay. This course will be valuable to both technical and non-technical personnel. The course is proposed to include:
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| Fundamentals of Sampling Lectures | |
| Fundamentals of Au, Ag and PGM Fire Assay Lectures | |
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Comprehensive Fire Assay Lab Session |
| Tours of Industrial Primary and Secondary PGM, Au and Ag Fire Assay Facilities | |
| Underground Mine Tour at Stillwater Mining Company's Platinum and Palladium Mine. |
Past Industrial Tour Sites Included:
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Stillwater Mining Company - Columbus, MT |
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Apollo Gold’s Montana Tunnels Mine - Jefferson City, MT |
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Placer Dome's Golden Sunlight Mine - Whitehall, MT |
Instructors
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Dr. Corby G. Anderson - Director, Center for Advanced Mineral and Metallurgical Processing, MT Tech |
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Dr. Paul J. Miranda- Process Engineer, Center for Advanced Mineral and Metallurgical Processing, MT Tech |
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Dr. Larry Twidwell - Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, MT Tech |
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Dr. Courtney Young - Department Head, Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, MT Tech |
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Wayne Olmstead - Manager, Mount Powell Laboratories, Deer Lodge, MT |
To Get More Information:
To have a registration packet mailed to you or for more information, send an e-mail with your name, address, phone and fax number to drule@mtech.edu with FIRE ASSAY as the subject line. Or, call our offices M-F 8:00 am - 5:00 pm MST @ 406-496-4652.
NOTE: REGISTRATION PACKETS SCHEDULED TO BE MAILED OUT END OF MAY/First of June 2007 - GET YOUR NAME IN NOW!
Also - Registration forms will be available on this web site via PDF files that you can print and fax in. See link above!
2005 Fire Assay Short Course Great Success
The fourth annual Fundamentals and Applications of Fire Assay Short Course put on by The Center for Advanced Mineral and Metallurgical Processing at Montana Tech proved to be a great success. The course was held the week of July 31, 2005 - August 5, 2005 at Montana Tech in Butte, MT. Registrants from across the United States, and around the globe assembled for a week of lectures, lab sessions and industrial tours.
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Instructors for the course included: Dr. Corby Anderson, Director, The Center for Advanced Mineral and Metallurgical Processing, MT Tech; Dr. Paul Miranda, Process Engineer, The Center for Advanced Mineral and Metallurgical Processing, MT Tech; Dr. Larry Twidwell, Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, MT Tech; Dr. Courtney Young, Department Head, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, MT Tech; and Wayne Olmstead, Manager, Mount Powell Laboratories, Deer Lodge, MT.
The comprehensive course was designed to provide fundamental, laboratory and industrial training in the art of Fire Assay. The course was split into two distinctive sessions. The first session covering two and ½ days consisted of classroom lectures and hands on lab session. The lectures covered Sampling theory, methodology and application; Fire Assay history, theory, methodology and application; and Slag Chemistry theory and application. The all day lab session at Mount Powell Laboratories covered methodology, equipment, fluxing, fusion, cupellation and scorification.
The second session also covering three days consisted of tours of area mine and smelter sights and their labs.
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The group visited Placer Dome’s Golden Sunlight Mine an open pit gold mine near Whitehall, Montana; Apollo Gold’s Montana Tunnels Mine an open pit gold, silver, lead and zinc mine near Jefferson City, Montana; Stillwater Mining Company, one of the world’s leading producers of platinum group metals and the only significant primary producer of palladium globally, located in Columbus, MT.
Here’s what a few registrants had to say about the course:
| "Would recommend to my co-workers at BLM, the course was very good. I walked away understanding the fire assay process, that was my objective." | |
| James Gruber, BLM (2002) | |
| "I enjoyed the class and felt it was worth it!" | |
| Mike Hinds, Royal Canadian Mint (2002) | |
| "I don't see how this could have been improved very much without adding more time to the course." | |
| Jack Cogswell, Meridan Western, Inc. (2002) | |
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"Overall it was the total package - education, tours, social exchanges. I thoroughly enjoyed it." John Maguire, President, Maguire & Strickland Refining, Inc. (2001) |
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"I found the course to be very informative and helpful. It was comprehensive and covered almost all aspects; right from mining to recovery of precious metals/bullion as well as analysis of ore, precious metals by Fire Assay. The tour sites were well selected to cover mining activities of different precious metals viz. Gold, Silver, Palladium and Platinum." Abhay S. Choksi, Executive Director, Hindustan Platinum PVT. LTD. (2001 and 2003) |
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"The course was very informative, insightful and beneficial. The science behind the method is very interesting and lends to the understanding of the whole process." Amanda Glavin, Lab Technician, United Refining and Smelting Co. (2001) |
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| "I count this as a lifetime experience and come away with a renewed enthusiasm for quantifying the values of samples I am presented with."Carl Garrison, President, Profiners Inc. (2000) | |
| "Hats off to all at CAMP, coming from a non-tech side I was very impressed with the approach and balance the course was presented." Kyle Kalamaha, Kalco Recovery (2000) | |
| "Excellent Course! Perfect size and diversity of attendees. Outstanding tours." Jeff Tange, Engineer, Parkans International. (2000) |
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