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Fulfill your potential. Transform your impact.

Learn the skills you need to unleash your talent and make your mark. 

Right now, Metcelerate Program participants around the globe are acquiring the training they need to improve operational expertise, make smarter decisions, and achieve peak metallurgical performance. Will you be part of our next cohort?

Take your talent to the next level with the Metcelerate Program.

What does the Metcelerate Program offer participants?

Metcelerate is a skills development program like no other. As a participant, you will learn from the world’s experts, and apply these lessons directly to real-world, on-site activities. It’s an unrivalled opportunity, and one that will equip you with the skills and capabilities you need to transform your professional impact.

To be clear, this is technical training, not soft skills development.

You can expect to be challenged, but also to graduate with a dramatically enhanced skill set, heightened confidence in your decision-making, and a fresh understanding of your potential impact on the value chain.

Only Metcelerate offers you:

  • A unique opportunity to accelerate professional development and 'get ahead'. 
  • Tuition from world-renowned subject matter experts in a structured, supportive system. 
  • Practical assignments, in-plant case studies, and real-time contact with course leaders and peers. 
  • Group tutorial discussions to identify and resolve common operational challenges and opportunities. 
  • The chance to apply and test new skills in a self-paced process optimization project. 

Who is eligible for the Metcelerate Program?

Metcelerate was designed with ambitious, early-career mineral processing engineers in mind. Typically, our participants will have between one and five years' operational in-plant experience after graduation, and will be employed as metallurgists, engineers, or geologists. Does that sound like you?

Metcelerate graduates share a desire to acquire the attributes that will allow them to fulfill their potential and transform their performance.

Participants in the program will typically work with the following commodities.

How is the Metcelerate Program structured?


The Metcelerate Program runs over 20 months and comprises eight core courses that together span all the essential metallurgist functions. The program concludes with an in-plant process optimization project, where you will have the chance to put your learning experience to the test and your theoretical skills into practice.


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A comprehensive curriculum in eight courses.

  1. Mineral Processing in the Mining Value Chain
  2. Process Mineralogy
  3. Experimental Design and Statistics
  4. Comminution
  5. Flotation
  6. Physical Separation
  7. Hydrometallurgy
  8. Process Optimization Project

Learning from the best in the business.

As a Metcelerate participant, you will be learning from the best. Our courses are compiled and presented by world-leading industry experts with a singular combination of skills, networks, industry knowledge, and teaching experience. You'll have the chance to engage directly with these course leaders — as well as your peers — in live tutorial sessions.

Mineral Processing in the Mining Value Chain

Professor Jan Cilliers & Dr. Bob Seitz

Process Mineralogy

Dr. Elaine Wightman & Dr. Cathy Evans

Experimental Design and Statistics

Dr. Brigitte Seaman & Dr. David Seaman

Comminution

Aidan Giblett

Flotation

Professor Jim Finch

Physical Separation

Brigitte Lacouture

Hydrometallurgy

Dr. Kathryn Sole

Process Optimization Project

Brigitte Lacouture

Four features that makes Metcelerate learning more effective.


Secure online study portal that deepens and broadens knowledge.

All Metcelerate self-guided study material is available through a reliable, secure learning management system (LMS). As a participant, you'll be expected to review the weekly study material at your convenience ahead of the 1-hour real-time tutorial.

Weekly tutorials led by world-renowned experts.

Each course includes a weekly live tutorial held by the course leader. This is your chance to interact with other learners, discuss the material you have been studying, and consider how it applies to actual operational challenges. The sessions are recorded and made available for later review.

Assignments focused on applying knowledge in the plant.

Periodic assignments are an integral aspect of the program, and allow you the chance to apply your newly acquired knowledge and skills to performance optimization in your own workplace.

Optimization project providing a capstone for all courses of the program.

The final course is an optimization project that lets you put your training to the test in a real-world, in-plant scenario. The topic must attempt to resolve a complex and open challenge in your plant, with success depending on your ability to find solutions by applying appropriate mineral processing tools and methods.

What does a Metcelerate graduate look like?

  • Enhanced knowledge of best practice
  • Improved engineering judgement
  • Greater problem-solving ability
  • More confident decision-making
  • Increased impact on upstream and downstream processes
  • Globally recognized PIABC Level 7 Diploma in Mineral Processing

More than 390 participants from six continents have now been enrolled in the Metcelerate Program since it started in 2020.

Will you be part of our next cohort in April 2026?


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Earn a qualification that’s recognized globally.


As a Metcelerate graduate, you will receive a PIABC Level 7 Diploma in Mineral Processing in addition to your Metcelerate Program Certificate. 

Don't take our word for it.


Metcelerate has been able to distill the knowledge of the sages of metallurgy.

It covers problems that I see on a daily basis and gives me the theory behind it.

I have been able to share and transfer what I have learned to my colleagues.

Next steps? Talk to HR, your training department, or your manager.

In order to be enrolled in the Metcelerate Program, you will need to be sponsored by your company. So if you are keen to register, talk first to your HR or training department or your manager, and ask them to contact us!

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