April 25, 2011 The Australian: Mining giant Rio Tinto taps local talent In the last 25 years, the percentage of Aboriginal workers in Rio Tinto's Australian workforce has gone from 0.5 to 8. Today, The Australian reports, the company is believed to…
April 25, 2011 Interest! Alert: Accredited course on evaluating gold junior mining companies offered by Market Motion Media This two-day course presented by Market Motion Media, Inc. will be held 6-7 June at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver, B.C., 9-10 June at the Sheraton Centre, Toronto, and…
April 25, 2011 Dawson Creek, B.C.: the mining industry expands with provincially funded training programs The province of B.C. will be spending $1.6 million on the Workforce Exploration Skills Training (WEST) program at Northwest Community College (NWCC). Participants will spend seven weeks on the ground…
April 25, 2011 Resistance to ICTs in mining – a generational issue? Mark Bullen, Tannis Morgan, and Adnan Qayyum discuss the influence of generation in the use of ICTs (information and communication technologies) in higher education. ...a comprehensive review of the research…
April 25, 2011 Management training on the minesite? Iain Macdonald and Jason Chiu evaluate the viability of mobile learning In the Canadian Journal of Learning Technology, Macdonald and Chiu's paper Evaluating the Viability of Mobile Learning to Enhance Management Training explores the augmentation of an e-learning program using mobile…
April 18, 2011 WAtoday Reports on the Australian Skills Crisis in Mining Clancy Yeates at WAtoday reports on the eye-popping salaries being received by mining and gas project workers in Western Australia as a result of a massive skills shortage. At an…
April 15, 2011 Opinion 250 News on Smithers Mine Training Program: Success Story in First Nations Training Northwest Community College in Smithers is preparing students for jobs in the mining industry, and boasts a high success rate, especially amongst local First Nations, reports Opinion 250 News. Their…
April 14, 2011 SAMSSA Argues for Consolidation of Ontario Mining Programs At Laurentian to Support Skills Shortages The Sudbury Area Mining Supply and Service Association argues that Ontario must make Laurentian University into a global "Harvard of hardrock mining" in order to carry Canada through its current…
April 14, 2011 MiningNews: Simulated Underground Mine Training Gains International Attention MiningNews.net reports that the Cut, a simulated underground training mine in Perth, is attracting attention from mining specialists all over the world. Training specialist Barminco is arranging several tours in…
April 13, 2011 Coal International Reports on Professor Fathi Habashi – Bringing Back Interest In Extractive Metallurgy Professor Fathi Habashi, EduMine author and Professor Emeritus at Laval University, is bringing back interest in extractive metallurgy with his Comprehensive Extractive Metallurgical Workshop - "an important international learning platform…
Chile regulator approves Codelco-SQM lithium deal hours after announcing audit The resolution comes hours after the top regulator announced it would launch an "unprecedented audit". December 19, 2025 | 03:13 pm
