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.…
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…
BHP ships Jimblebar iron ore to Malaysia, Vietnam as China ban stalls sales BHP has been offering more discounts for its iron ore including the Jimblebar fines to try to facilitate sales in China. January 23, 2026 | 07:19 am
