Lao-as, who is also president of Cebu-based Asia Pacific Energy Resources Ventures Inc., is appealing to the younger generation "to consider strongly a course on
mining engineering" as one of the highest paid professions.
"We were offered jobs, but not
mining engineering jobs.
Caption: Stefanus Nuno Pereira, Bsc(Hons)
Mining Engineering, seated at his desk in his somewhat chaotic office at Okuruso Fluorspar, typical of a mining engineer.
" After graduation, a
mining engineering graduate can join the industry as a management trainee and go on to become an assistant manager at a mine," Mishra says.
Gold company Ruby Creek Resources Inc (OTCBB:RBYC.OB) said on Monday that it has retained the
mining engineering firm JCD Projects for its Gold Standard Mining License.
lawrence.dimery@brewin.co.ukAMEC has agreed to buy a Canadian
mining engineering consultancy for pounds 2m
The decline in the number of American colleges and universities emphasizing or teaching mineralogy may be having an effect on at least one profession:
mining engineering. Mining engineers obviously have to know their mineralogy, particularly when working in the field.
EDUCATION: Degree in coal
mining engineering from Leeds University.
The Institute of
Mining Engineering I of the Aachen University of Technology is organising the First International Symposium on Rapid Mine Development for May 22 and 23, 2002.
The European Commission has published an invitation to submit project proposals for the2002 ECSC technical coal research programme in the fields of
mining engineering and coal utilisation.
Current Asia-Pacific users of the MINEX system include Coal India's Central Mine Planning and Development Institute, Kaltim Prima Coal in Indonesia, and Japanese companies Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, Sumitomo Coal Mining and Mitsui
Mining Engineering.
Edmonton's University of Alberta offers a four-year undergraduate program in
mining engineering through their department of mining, metallurgical and petroleum engineering.
