BRIMM 101 – Introduction to Mineral and Exploration Economics

Unlock the entire mining value chain with BRIMM 101, a high-impact course where geology, processing, sustainability, and finance converge. Led by industry veterans Benjamin Cox and Ben Murphy, you’ll learn to evaluate projects, assess orebodies, and optimize flowsheets with economic precision. This crash course shifts your perspective on value, power, and impact in mining—and serves as the essential foundation for the next three BRIMM modules.

🔑 You’ll walk away with:

• A firm grasp of economic drivers behind mineral exploration and mining
• The ability to analyze a flowsheet through an economic lens
• Tools to assess whether an orebody is truly “economic”
• Exploration evaluation checklists you’ll use for the rest of your career
• A systems-thinking mindset, preparing you for finance, sustainability, and presentation strategy

BRIMM 102 – Corporate Finance for Mineral Processors and Geologists

[REQUIRES BRIMM 101]
BRIMM 102 takes you from the field to the boardroom, where finance becomes your second language. You’ll master discounted cash flows, NPV, IRR, and the financial logic behind every mining investment, tying economics to engineering with real-world data. More than a finance course, it’s a crash course in defending your project to skeptics. Building on BRIMM 101, it equips you to justify decisions with unshakable financial reasoning.

💼 By the end, you’ll:

• Confidently explain the financial rationale behind mining projects
• Navigate mining-specific concepts like depletion, amortization, and real options
• Use financial tools to reinforce decisions around sustainability and operations
• Analyze flotation recovery from a capital and returns perspective
• Construct financial narratives that connect technical performance to investor impact

BRIMM 103 – Economic Sustainability

[REQUIRES BRIMM 102]
BRIMM 103 focuses on long-term value, where profitability and responsibility converge. You’ll learn how sustainability becomes a competitive advantage, designing strategies for water use, environmental trade-offs, and maintaining your license to operate. Building on the cash flow logic of BRIMM 102 and the systems thinking of BRIMM 101, this course blends idealism and realism, backed by real-world case studies.

🌎 Expect to learn:

• How to fold sustainability metrics into financial models and investment cases
• Strategic frameworks for analyzing operational risk vs. long-term viability
• Real-world methods for valuing sustainability initiatives
• The economics of water and environmental use in complex mining ecosystems
• How to defend business cases that are both profitable and socially resilient

BRIMM 104 – Marketing and Presentation

[REQUIRES BRIMM 103]
BRIMM 104 is the final synthesis, turning your technical expertise into boardroom-ready presentations and investment-winning proposals. You’ll learn to shape financial data, sustainability arguments, and operational insights into clear, compelling narratives. Building on BRIMM 101–103, this course trains you to craft safety shares, memos, slide decks, and strategic pitches. This is where technical mastery becomes leadership.

🎤 You’ll come away with:

• A mastery of pitch structure for technical and non-technical audiences
• Slide design, visualization, and storytelling techniques that sell ideas
• Skills in identifying gaps in logic or persuasion before the pitch hits the table
• The ability to align technical messaging with stakeholder expectations
• A complete, confident communication strategy built from everything you’ve learned