MP Awards · RQF Level 3
MPQC Level 3 Certificate in Extractive and Minerals Processing Industries (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits13
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification9
Awarded by MP Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units MP Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Primary Principles of the Extractive and Minerals Processing IndustriesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of the extractive and mineral processing industries
- Know the health and safety requirements that control the extractive and mineral processing industries
- Understand the key environmental issues affecting the extractive and mineral processing industries
- Understand how efficient working practices are applied within extraction and mineral processing
- Understand the principles of effective equipment usage
- Understand the management systems used to provide quality assurance
Principles of Blasting in Extractives SitesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of blasting operations in extractives sites
- Understand the requirements establishing blast holes
- Understand the principles of blasting
- Understand misfires
Principles of Supervision in the Extractives and Mineral Processing IndustriesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the supervision of teams and individuals
Supervising Mining OperationsReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of mining
- Understand the resource requirements of mining operations
- Understand the control requirements for mining operations
Supervising Engineering Maintenance in the Extractives and Mineral Processing IndustriesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand engineering documents and drawings
- Understand how to work effectively and efficiently
- Understand completion and handover of work
- Understand the principles of fault diagnosis
- Understand how to fix faults
- Understand the principles of maintenance
- Understand how to carry out maintenance
Supervising Laboratory Activities in the Extractive and Minerals Processing IndustriesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key requirements of labouratory work
- Understand testing operations
- Understand data analysis
- Understand the provision of technical support
Supervising Mineral Processing Operations in the Extractives and Mineral Processing IndustriesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the deployment of processing plant and equipment
- Understand the principles of problem solving
- Understand the principles of plant operation
- Understand the management of physical resources
- Understand the management of teams and individuals
Supervising Plant Maintenance in the Extractives and Mineral Processing IndustriesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of plant maintenance operations
- Understand the principles of repair operations
- Understand the principles of repair testing
- Understand the process of fault diagnosis
- Understand the control of resources
Supporting the Improvement of Health, Safety and the Environment in the Extractives and Minerals Processing IndustriesReal unit · MP Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to create a positive culture, promoting health and safety
- Understand how to create a positive culture, promoting the environment
- Understand the processes available to improve health and safety performance
- Understand the processes available to improve environmental performance
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Assist with the specified minerals processing activity
- Deal with Misfires
- Determine the blast requirements
- Develop the capability of the team in mineral processing operations
- Lead continuous improvement in mineral processing operations
- Lead the work of teams and individuals to achieve their objectives in the extractive and mineral processing industry
- Manage and Improve the Production Processes in Mineral Processing Operations
- Supervise Mine Plant Installation and Salvage
Where this can lead
Maintenance Manager
Your journey here isn't just a job; it's a chance to build a really strong foundation in operational excellence. We're keen to see you grow, whether that's becoming a top-tier technical expert or stepping up into broader leadership roles. The opportunities are definitely there if you're willing to grab them.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 51 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for MPQC Level 3 Certificate in Extractive and Minerals Processing Industries (QCF)
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by MP Awards.
- Primary Principles of the Extractive and Minerals Processing Industries
- Principles of Blasting in Extractives Sites
- Principles of Supervision in the Extractives and Mineral Processing Industries
- Supervising Mining Operations
- Supervising Engineering Maintenance in the Extractives and Mineral Processing Industries
- Supervising Laboratory Activities in the Extractive and Minerals Processing Industries
and 3 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.