May 9, 2011 West Virginia: Massey Energy mine shuts down production to retrain miners on safety practices after citation The Republic reports that Massey Energy will stop production at Randolph Mine in West Virginia mine for three days to retrain workers after the operation was cited for a string…
May 6, 2011 Mining Weekly: South Africa needs intensive investment in blasting training Mining explosives supplier Bulk Mining Explosives (BME) director Tony Rorke told Mining Weekly that unless South Africa makes a serious investment towards improving their blasting training, millions of rands per…
May 6, 2011 Orange, Australia now the site of brand new training facilities for mining, trades, sustainable building TAFE Western has opened three new facilities in Orange, NSW, Australia to provide students with state of the art training in trades and mining, set in a framework of green…
May 5, 2011 The issue of skills poaching in mining: is a training levy the answer? Michael Sacco, contributor to the Mining for Skills blog, comments on job poaching in the mining industry, and its effects in a skills shortage. Already, we’ve heard talk of a…
May 5, 2011 Report calls for rethink of Australian training sector A report handed to Australian Education and Training Minister Chris Evans warns that Australia will fail to capitalise on the mining boom unless it overhauls the national training system and…
May 3, 2011 European Federation of Geologists and the Hungarian Geological Society present geology workshop, Budapest Connected with the Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Geologists (EFG) this year in Budapest will be a workshop on "Geology at different education levels in Europe" on May…
May 3, 2011 Australian treasurer Wayne Swan says first train new miners, then look to skilled migration Wayne Swan has rejected calls for a large boost to permanent migration. Instead, he claims that his budget will create 500,000 new jobs and drive unemployment to 4.5 per cent.…
April 29, 2011 Mining Weekly: New mining engineering education approach at University of Pretoria shows promise In an effort to include nontechnical, or soft skills, as part of its new approach to education in mining engineering, the University of Pretoria’s Department of Mining Engineering reports it…
April 29, 2011 Witwatersrand professor Rosemary Falcon comments on the need to diversify SA’s coal education Witwatersrand School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering professor Rosemary Falcon argues that little is being done to improve South African education and skills training in the fields of coal mining…
April 28, 2011 Navigator PF presents two-day financial modelling for mining projects course Navigator Project Finance is presenting a two-day Excel-based modelling course for mining projects at various locations around Australia: Perth, Sydney and London this summer, and Brisbane and Perth this fall.…
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