How much do you think you know about mining?
We typically think of there being theoretical and practical knowledge. Then there’s common sense – or what we often refer to as street smarts. The most rounded and successful individuals in mining tend to be those that have all three.
Street smarts provide you with a worldly common sense of how to operate in mining’s everyday life. A street smart individual listens, understands, operates and communicates with confidence. In mining terms, this would be a sound knowledge of the many key and current entities in mining, from the people, to the mines, to the disasters and events.
Canada is the third largest exporter of metallurgical coal in the world (after Australia and the United States), shipping most of the 27 million tonnes of metallurgical and thermal coal produced every year in B.C.