Help your employees fast track their careers with our courses in underground mining:
Prisma is a leader in professional training, and a fully MQA accredited specialist training service provider to the mining sector.
We offer a range of underground mining training courses from full qualifications such as the National Certificate in Mining Operations, through to a range of skills programmes, short courses in blasting and health and safety, supervisory skills and machinery equipment courses among many more.
Prisma is ideally positioned to respond to your training needs anywhere within Africa including South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.
Our full range of Underground Mining courses are detailed below. Contact us for more information.
Underground mining courses
Underground hard rock mining refers to various underground mining techniques used to excavate hard minerals, usually those containing metals such as ore containing gold, silver, iron, copper, zinc, nickel, tin and lead, but also involves using the same techniques for excavating ores of gems such as diamonds or rubies.
| QUALIFICATION Courses | SAQA | NQF Level |
| Further Education and Training Certificate: Mining Operations | 74490 | 4 |
| National Certificate: Rock Breaking Underground Hard Rock | 58760 | 3 |
| National Certfi cate: Mining Operations Underground Hard Rock | 58739 | 2 |
| SKILLS PROGRAMMES Courses | MQA ID | NQF Level |
| Blasting Assistant within Underground Hard Rock | MQA/SP/0064/07 | |
| Competent A: The Examination and Declaring safe of a Workplace in Underground Hard Rock Operations |
MQA/SP/0063/07 | |
| Competent Person B : The Installation and maintenance of any Support Unit and the Removal of a Temporary Support Unit in Underground Hard Rock Operations |
MQA/SP/0162/16 | |
| Trackless Mobile Machine Operations Underground Hard Rock | MQA/SP/0068/08 |
| SHORT COURSES Courses | SAQA | NQF Level |
| Time; connect and initiate blast of a face | 244457 | 3 |
| Remove hazardous ground and installed support by means of blasting | 244483 | 3 |
| Connect and initiate a blast of a development end using shock tube | 244488 | 3 |
| Connect and initiate a blast of a stope face using shock tube | 244463 | 3 |
| Time; connect and initiate blast of a face | 244489 | 3 |
| Time, connect and initiate a number of shot holes using electric/electronic delay detonators | 244473 | 3 |
| Remove an obstruction from an ore pass by means of blasting | 244460 | 3 |
| Install an initiating system used in blasting operations underground | 244461 | 3 |
| Mark shot holes for primary blasting in an underground working place | 244458 | 3 |
| Demonstrate an understanding of legal terms and requirements related to rockbreaking operations | 244470 | 3 |
| Demonstrate understanding of blasting products pertaining to blasting operations and principles of rock breaking activities in an underground hard rock environment |
244470 | 3 |
| Destroy old explosives in an underground workplace | 244464 | 2 |
| Break big rocks by means of blasting | 244487 | 2 |
| Mark shot holes for secondary blasting | 244479 | 2 |
| Break big rocks using a secondary breaker | 244387 | 2 |
| Treat and remove misfires | 244389 | 2 |
| Blast a misfired hole in a development end during the shift | 244465 | 2 |
| MACHINERY Courses | SAQA | NQF Level |
| Grade roadways by means of a motor grader in an underground mine | 244423 | 3 |
| Support an underground working place by means of a concrete-spraying utility vehicle | 244418 | 3 |
| Drill holes by means of a skid steer secondary drill rig in an underground workplace | 244466 | 3 |
| Drill holes by means of an electro-hydraulic long hole drill rig in an underground workplace | 244474 | 3 |
| Transport and load explosives into blast using a mixer placer truck in an underground mine | 244396 | 3 |
| Drill holes by means of an electro hydraulic drill rig in an underground workplace | 244477 | 3 |
| Grade roadways by means of a motor grader in an underground mine | 244423 | 3 |
| Transport persons; material and equipment by means of a light delivery vehicle (LDV) in an underground mine. |
244412 | 2 |
| Transport materials by means of a skid steer loader in an underground workplace | 244375 | 2 |
| Doze material using Tyre Dozer in an underground mine | 244409 | 2 |
| Transfer material using Rigid Rear Body Dumper in an underground mine
Operate a monorail system |
244371
244404 |
2
2 |
| Transport persons; material and equipment by means of a diesel powered quadro cycle in an underground mine |
244362 | 2 |
| Shunt and tow of material cars by means of a diesel powered tractor | 244374 | 2 |
| Move material by means of a mobilift in an underground mine | 244406 | 2 |
| Transport broken rock by means of a diesel powered Dump Truck in an underground mine | 244399 | 2 |
| Transport persons; material and equipment by means of an interchangeable saddle utility vehicle in an underground mine |
244452 | 2 |
| Remove broken rock by means of trackbound mechanical loader | 244444 | 2 |
| Operate a locomotive underground | 244392 | 2 |
| Transport explosives and accessories by means of a self propelled mobile machine | 244440 | 2 |
| Take charge of and drive a non-articulating vehicle in an underground mine | 244441 | 2 |
| Transfer broken rock by means of a dieselpowered Load Haul Dumper (LHD) in an underground mine |
244476 | 2 |
| Transport persons; material and equipment by means of a fi xed saddle ulitliy vehicle in an underground mine |
244395 | 2 |
| Transfer broken rock by means of an electrically-powered Load Haul Dumper (LHD) in an underground mine |
244482 | 2 |
| Transfer broken rock by means of a remote-controlled Load Haul Dumper in an underground mine | 244467 | 2 |
| Suppress dust in an underground mine using a water bowzer | 244373 | 2 |
| Drill holes underground by means of a handheld rock drill machine | 244415 | 2 |
| Doze material using a Track Dozer in an underground mine | 244377 | 2 |
| Transport persons by means of a locomotive and carriage | 244442 | 1 |
| Transport explosives and accessories by means of rolling stock | 244393 | 1 |
| TRANSPORT OPERATIONS Courses | SAQA | NQF Level |
| Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of underground horizontal transport operation | 336905 | 4 |
| Coordinate transportation operations in an underground coal mine | 337039 | 4 |
| Coordinate loading operations in an underground coal mine | 336944 | 4 |
