Report Writing for Mining
Intake commences 28 April 2025
20 PD hours
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Course Overview
- Designed and delivered specifically for and by mining professionals.
- Integrates a deep knowledge of the mining industry and its expectations and opportunities.
- Provides a solid foundation of the rules, conventions, and guidelines that govern usage and style in effective report-writing.
- Also provides advice on putting the skills into practice, including the production of industry-specific reports, such as mining studies, Competent Person reports, and ASX announcements.
Who is this for?
Mining professionals in the following roles will benefit from this course:
- Professionals responsible for writing reports to Code
- Mineral processing engineers
- Mining engineers
- Metallurgists
- Environmental scientists
- Senior managers
- Geoscientists (including geologists, hydrogeologists, hydrologists)
- Technical staff responsible for reviewing reports
- Support staff responsible for reviewing and editing reports
- Mining consultants of all specialisations and levels
Course Modules
Module 1
Explore report writing in the mining sector
In the first module, you will learn:
- The importance of effective report-writing to your work and career
- Key expectations of report writing in the mining sector
- Common report types in the mining industry
This includes:
- Benefits of good report-writing for companies, consultancies and individuals
- Different report types and their structure
- Report and communication structures and when to use each
- Specialist mining reports, such as feasibility studies and public reports, their purpose, goals, and prescribed content
- For each report type, how to structure, sequence information and ensure technical completeness
Module 2
Meet your audience’s needs
In the second module, you will learn how to meet your audience’s needs by:
- Choosing the level of detail that is appropriate for your intended audience
- Structuring your argument logically at every level of the document
- Ordering information to ensure it is effectively communicated
This includes:
- The importance of selecting the correct level of detail, structure and order of information
- Understanding the essential components of a technical report and their order
- Establishing the purpose, objectives, and key messages
- Creating an outline
- Checking and addressing logic gaps
- Ensuring the purpose and objectives are met
- Ordering information in topics, paragraphs, and sentences
Module 3
Make your report effective and impactful
In the third module, you will learn how to clearly communicate your argument by selecting and using textual and visual elements.
This includes:
- Importance of using textual and visual elements to communicate clearly
- Choosing the most effective language (formal vs informal, jargon, idioms, accessibility, avoiding bias)
- Eliminating basic errors that distract the reader
- Using hyphens and capitalisation to make your meaning clear
- Accepted conventions for formatting reports, such as numbers, measurements, citations and references.
- Using visual elements to illustrate your ideas, including charts, tables, and other graphical elements
- Why punctuation and grammar are important
- How to address common causes of ambiguity and misreading
- Eliminating wordiness
Module 4
Put it into practice
In the final module, you will learn how to plan and apply an effective writing and editing process.
This includes:
- The value of developing and using an effective writing process
- The overall process, from planning, through writing, to review and quality control
- The writing processm, use of writing tools, and effective use of AI
- The editing process and tools, peer review, QA, and proofreading
- How to bring these together into a final, professional document
- Avoiding common traps and errors
- Using your report-writing skills to advance your career
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Report Writing for Mining
Learning Objectives
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Explore the key features and expectations of report writing in the mining sector.
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Tailor reports to meet the unique needs of different audiences.
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Plan and structure reports effectively, considering purpose, audience, and content.
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Communicate information clearly and persuasively using appropriate language and visual aids.
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Leverage project management techniques for efficient report production.
- Utilise a variety of writing tools to enhance report quality and efficiency.
Course Structure
The five-week online course will take learners approximately 20 hours to complete. Please note the live virtual classrooms are not mandatory and they will be recorded and available on the same day for participants who are unable to attend the live event.
Course content includes:
- Live virtual classrooms (with replay available)
- Self-paced modules
- Learning activities such as short quiz questions
- Online access to the Doxical Manual of Style (DMOS) (45 days free access included)
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Course Facilitator
All programs have been developed in consultation with leading organisations in the mining industry, subject matter experts and community leaders to ensure you gain the latest knowledge and develop relevant skills to accelerate your career.
Tim McAuley
Tim specialises in the production of technical reports for large mining studies. "My job as report editor," Tim says, "is to take the contributions of 20 or more authors, each with their own individual writing style, and create a consistently professional final product that clearly conveys the key messages, while reading as if it were written by a single, accomplished author."
Prior to becoming a professional writer, Tim worked as a mining engineer on ore reserves, geotechnical, mine design, mine production, and long-term planning studies for both open-pit and underground mines in Australia, South Africa, North America, and South America producing precious metals, diamonds, copper, lead-zinc, bauxite, coal, and limestone.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the technical requirements to participate in the course? i.e. do I need a webcam, microphone, etc?
The course will be run entirely online via a cloud-based Learning Management System (LMS) which can be accessed via computer, tablet or phone. Participants will simply need to have a working Internet connection and a computer, tablet or phone with sound to access the course.
How long will the course take?
The full course is estimated to take about 20 hours of learning. Participants will have access to the course platform for five weeks to complete all modules.
How often will the courses be run?
We aim to run two intakes each year.
Do I have to attend the live sessions?
No, all virtual classrooms are recorded and made available on the learning platform for participants who are unable to attend the live session.
Will the course be delivered in other languages?
At the moment, no, but we will be looking at delivering the course in other languages in the near future.
How many PD hours do I receive for undertaking the course?
Participants can earn professional development (PD) hours for undertaking the course. One contact hour of technical content is equivalent to one PD hour.