Belt Conveyor Design

• April 23-25, 2025
• Additional Dates in 2025
  • October 15-17, 2025

This course aims to give design engineers, owners, and operators of belt conveyors the advanced skills necessary to evaluate and improve conveyor performance and reliability. Click/tap for more information

A Bedrock in Mining – An introduction to critical minerals production for executives

• April 28 – May 2, 2025

The course is designed as a high-level introduction to the Mining Industry; Its intent is to raise awareness, not provide a detailed technical explanation or to educate graduate type students. The intended audience for this course is individuals with new responsibilities, both direct and indirect, within the Mining Sector.  They are likely to be Managers and Executives that are new to Mining; Government officials, Regulators and Agency representatives, and other similarly interested parties. The list of topics with the time allotted for each will define the limits to the depth and breadth of material to be presented.  (High level introduction to raise awareness) Click/tap for more information.

Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods

• May 12-15, 2025
• Additional Dates in 2025
  • June 9-12, 2025
  • July 14-17, 2025
  • November 3-6, 2025

This event covers the economic analysis of income and service producing investments using discounted cash flow analysis criteria and procedures. It also covers the economic analysis techniques used to optimize the development and operation of mining. Click/tap for more information.

Space Resources Roundtable

• June 3-6, 2025

XXIII Meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium will bring together world experts from space agencies, research organizations, academia, the space private sector, the mining supply chain, the oil and gas industry, equipment manufacturers, and financial, policy, and legal experts to present innovative approaches in space resource identification, technology development, utilization, economic feasibility studies, public and private partnerships, and capability and regulatory regimes. Click/tap for more information.

Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods

• June 9-12, 2025
• Additional Dates in 2025
  • July 14-17, 2025
  • November 3-6, 2025

This event covers the economic analysis of income and service producing investments using discounted cash flow analysis criteria and procedures. It also covers the economic analysis techniques used to optimize the development and operation of mining. Click/tap for more information.

Filtered, Paste and Thickened Tailings

• TBD 2026

Paterson & Cooke is committed to sharing our specialist knowledge and skills by hosting courses that aim to equip participants with a broad understanding of the practical and theoretical issues of our key areas of expertise. Click/tap for more information.

Petroleum Engineering SuperSchool

• June 16-27, 2025

This event is an intensive, immersive, program designed to provide the technical fundamentals needed for effective teamwork across the breadth of activities in the upstream petroleum industry. Click/tap for more information.

Recycling Metals from Industrial Materials

• June 24-26, 2025

This event is, now in its 30th year, focuses on current plant practices to convert metal-containing wastes to products. Processors, raw materials, and markets are identified and quantified. Speakers with decades of hands-on experience. Click/tap for more information.

New Directions in Mineral Processing Fundamentals

• July 8-11, 2025

This event will provide an introduction suitable for those just entering the world of mineral processing, as well as a look to the future as driven by contemporary innovation. It will provide engineers, scientists, technical sales teams, government agencies personnel, and others working in the field directly or in supporting roles, an overview of important particulate separation unit operations. Click/tap for more information.

Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods

• July 14-17, 2025
• Additional Dates in 2025
  • November 3-6, 2025

This event covers the economic analysis of income and service producing investments using discounted cash flow analysis criteria and procedures. It also covers the economic analysis techniques used to optimize the development and operation of mining. Click/tap for more information.

Natural Gas Processing

• July 14-17, 2025

This event provides an overview of the natural gas industry, from wellhead to marketplace, with emphasis on the gas plant operations. The overall process flow diagram is used to illustrate how the individual plant operations are integrated to create gas plants capable of handling feeds from gas fields around the world. Click/tap for more information.

ChemEd 2025

• July 20-24, 2025

This biennial conference is the largest in North America for educators involved in teaching high school and introductory chemistry. It is an opportunity for educators to gather for five days to learn and exchange their teaching ideas in a friendly and motivating environment. In recent years, the conference attendance has ranged from 400 to 800 educators. Click/tap for more information.

Grouting and Ground Improvement

• July 28-31, 2025

This event is a 4-day course that covers engineering, equipment, materials, and methods for grouting and ground modification used in civil and geotechnical engineering, underground construction, tunneling, and mining projects of various types. The course consists of classroom presentations by internationally-recognized experts and hands-on laboratory demonstrations and testing of grouts and grouting methods as well as off-campus field demos. Click/tap for more information.

Sampling Theory, Sampling Practices and Their Economic Impact

• October 6-10, 2025

The course offers simple ways to quantify money losses for a given sampling precision, and it provides a good strategy to prevent catastrophic sampling inaccuracy for which there is no statistical cure. Unless sampling precision and accuracy are clearly connected to economic issues.     Click/tap for more information.

Belt Conveyor Design

• October 15-17, 2025

This course aims to give design engineers, owners, and operators of belt conveyors the advanced skills necessary to evaluate and improve conveyor performance and reliability. Click/tap for more information.

Tunneling Fundamentals, Practice and Innovations

•  October 20-23, 2025

This event is an annual short course for industry professionals that provides a comprehensive overview of tunnel planning, design and construction across all applications and all geologies. Through presentations by the tunneling industry’s top-practicing experts combined with one-of-a-kind hands-on labs. Click/tap for more information.

An Integrated Valuation and Risk Modelling approach to Dynamic DCF and Real Options

• October 22-24, 2025

This course will show participants how to create a spreadsheet-based dynamic cash flow model and interpret the value and risk information it generates. It teaches participants how to overlay a description of project market uncertainty with a decision-tree to assess the value of project flexibility and the level of investor risk exposure. A case study based on the Blackwater Project in B.C. Canada demonstrates the shortcomings of static cash flow analysis and how a dynamic model can correct these shortcomings. Click/tap for more information.

Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods

• November 3-6, 2025

This event covers the economic analysis of income and service producing investments using discounted cash flow analysis criteria and procedures. It also covers the economic analysis techniques used to optimize the development and operation of mining. Click/tap for more information.

Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods

•  March 17-20, 2025
• Additional Dates in 2025
  • May 12-15, 2025
  • June 4-6, 2025
  • July 14-17, 2025
  • November 3-6, 2025

This event covers the economic analysis of income and service producing investments using discounted cash flow analysis criteria and procedures. It also covers the economic analysis techniques used to optimize the development and operation of mining. Click/tap for more information.

Communities and Social Performance in the Extractive Sector

• April 15-17, 2025

This event is a three-day intensive workshop that will provide a comprehensive picture of where mining and oil and gas sit in terms of engagement with the external world, particularly with local communities. Click/tap for more information

Belt Conveyor Design

• April 23-25, 2025

This course aims to give design engineers, owners, and operators of belt conveyors the advanced skills necessary to evaluate and improve conveyor performance and reliability. Click/tap for more information

A Bedrock in Mining – An introduction to critical minerals production for executives

• April 28 – May 3, 2025

The course is designed as a high-level introduction to the Mining Industry; Its intent is to raise awareness, not provide a detailed technical explanation or to educate graduate type students. The intended audience for this course is individuals with new responsibilities, both direct and indirect, within the Mining Sector.  They are likely to be Managers and Executives that are new to Mining; Government officials, Regulators and Agency representatives, and other similarly interested parties. The list of topics with the time allotted for each will define the limits to the depth and breadth of material to be presented.  (High level introduction to raise awareness) Click/tap for more information.

Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods

• May 12-15, 2025
• Additional Dates in 2025
  • June 4-6, 2025
  • July 14-17, 2025
  • November 3-6, 2025

This event covers the economic analysis of income and service producing investments using discounted cash flow analysis criteria and procedures. It also covers the economic analysis techniques used to optimize the development and operation of mining. Click/tap for more information.

Space Resources Roundtable

• TBD

XXIII Meeting of the Space Resources Roundtable and the Planetary & Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium will bring together world experts from space agencies, research organizations, academia, the mining supply chain, the general extractive industry, equipment manufacturers, private enterprise, financial and. Click/tap for more information.

Filtered, Paste and Thickened Tailings

• TBD

Paterson & Cooke is committed to sharing our specialist knowledge and skills by hosting courses that aim to equip participants with a broad understanding of the practical and theoretical issues of our key areas of expertise. Click/tap for more information.

Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods

• June 4-6, 2025
  • Additional Dates in 2025
  • July 14-17, 2025
  • November 3-6, 2025

This event covers the economic analysis of income and service producing investments using discounted cash flow analysis criteria and procedures. It also covers the economic analysis techniques used to optimize the development and operation of mining. Click/tap for more information.

Petroleum Engineering SuperSchool

• June 16-27, 2025

This event is an intensive, immersive, program designed to provide the technical fundamentals needed for effective teamwork across the breadth of activities in the upstream petroleum industry. Click/tap for more information.

Recycling Metals from Industrial Waste

• June 24-26, 2025

This event is, now in its 30th year, focuses on current plant practices to convert metal-containing wastes to products. Processors, raw materials, and markets are identified and quantified. Speakers with decades of hands-on experience. Click/tap for more information.

New Directions in Mineral Processing Fundamentals

• July 8-11, 2025

This event will provide an introduction suitable for those just entering the world of mineral processing, as well as a look to the future as driven by contemporary innovation. It will provide engineers, scientists, technical sales teams, government agencies personnel, and others working in the field directly or in supporting roles, an overview of important particulate separation unit operations. Click/tap for more information.

Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods

• July 14-17, 2025
• Additional Dates in 2025
  • November 3-6, 2025

This event covers the economic analysis of income and service producing investments using discounted cash flow analysis criteria and procedures. It also covers the economic analysis techniques used to optimize the development and operation of mining. Click/tap for more information.

Natural Gas Processing

• July 14-17, 2025

This event provides an overview of the natural gas industry, from wellhead to marketplace, with emphasis on the gas plant operations. The overall process flow diagram is used to illustrate how the individual plant operations are integrated to create gas plants capable of handling feeds from gas fields around the world. Click/tap for more information.

ChemEd 2025

• July 20-24, 2025

This biennial conference is the largest in North America for educators involved in teaching high school and introductory chemistry. It is an opportunity for educators to gather for five days to learn and exchange their teaching ideas in a friendly and motivating environment. In recent years, the conference attendance has ranged from 400 to 800 educators. Click/tap for more information.

Grouting and Ground Improvement

• July 28-31, 2025

This event is a 3½ day course that covers engineering, equipment, materials, and methods for grouting and ground modification used in civil and geotechnical engineering, underground construction, tunneling, and mining projects of various types. The course consists of classroom presentations by internationally-recognized experts and hands-on laboratory demonstrations and testing of grouts and grouting methods as well as off-campus field demos. Click/tap for more information.

Sampling Theory, Sampling Practices and Their Economic Impact

• October 6-10, 2025

The course offers simple ways to quantify money losses for a given sampling precision, and it provides a good strategy to prevent catastrophic sampling inaccuracy for which there is no statistical cure. Unless sampling precision and accuracy are clearly connected to economic issues. Click/tap for more information.

An Integrated Valuation and Risk Modelling approach to Dynamic DCF and Real Options

• October 22-24, 2025

This course will show participants how to create a spreadsheet-based dynamic cash flow model and interpret the value and risk information it generates. It teaches participants how to overlay a description of project market uncertainty with a decision-tree to assess the value of project flexibility and the level of investor risk exposure. A case study based on the Blackwater Project in B.C. Canada demonstrates the shortcomings of static cash flow analysis and how a dynamic model can correct these shortcomings. Click/tap for more information.

Communities and Social Performance in the Extractive Sector

• October 28-30, 2025

This event is a three-day intensive workshop that will provide a comprehensive picture of where mining and oil and gas sit in terms of engagement with the external world, particularly with local communities. Click/tap for more information

Economic Evaluation and Investment Decision Methods

• November 3-6, 2024

This event covers the economic analysis of income and service producing investments using discounted cash flow analysis criteria and procedures. It also covers the economic analysis techniques used to optimize the development and operation of mining. Click/tap for more information.

The registration fees do not include insurance. It is recommended that all registrants consult their travel agent and take out their own travel and medical insurance prior to coming to the event. The organizers cannot accept responsibility for uninsured participants.

All transactions are based on US currency (dollars and cents). Denominations are $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100. Coins are 1, 5, 10, 25, and 50 cents. There are several branches of US banks within walking distance of the event venue; however, it is recommended that foreign currency be exchanged at Denver International Airport upon arrival.

Information about current exchange rates is available. Learn more…

The State of Colorado assesses taxes on most services and goods, and these taxes are typically included in the price of the goods purchased. No taxes will be added to your event fees.