Rick Lawrence has presented professional short courses in English and Spanish on a variety of topics in the fields of mining environment, refractory gold ores and biohydrometallurgy.

Sustainable water treatment for mine-impacted water. Sudbury 2011 Mining and the Environment International Conference, Sudbury, Ontario, June 26-30, 2011.

Applications of Biohydrometallurgy - Environment.  Segment of Hydrometallurgy Short Course.  International Symposium on Hydrometallurgy, Vancouver,  Canada,  August 24-27, 2003.

Chemical Stability of Tailings Impoundments, La Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Perú, December, 1999.

Prediction of ARD, Treatment of Acidic Mine Water, and Control of ARD, Instructor, Module V, Germany-Peru Project on Mining and the Environment, Lima, Peru, December, 1998 and 1999.

Acid Rock Drainage Prediction, Control and Treatment, Sole Presenter, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, August 12- 14, 1997.

Chemical Prediction for ARD, 4th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage, Vancouver, May 31, 1997.

Workshop on Chemical and Mathematical Prediction of Acid Rock Drainage, Principal Presenter, MEND Workshop, Noranda Technology Centre, December 7-8, 1995

Mining, Mineral Processing and the Environment, to representatives of the mining industry and government from Venezuela, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1995.

Mining Environment, Water Treatment, Cyanide, and Biotechnology in the Mining Industry,  Sole Presenter, La Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosí, México, Nov - Dec, 1994.

Acid Rock Drainage, Organizer and Presenter, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Vancouver, 1994

International Course on Hydrometallurgy and Biohydrometallurgy, Presenter, San Luis Potosí, Mexico, 1994

The Processing of Refractory Gold Ores, Presenter of Module on Biohydrometallurgy, AIME, Anaheim CA, 1991.

Workshop on Bioleach Technologies, Workshop Leader, BAKTEK, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1986.

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