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#MiningIndaba: Is South African mining ready for the skills of tomorrow?

The South African mining sector is facing a growing skills drain as the country's technical workforce ages, top engineering talent head overseas, and the tertiary-to-industry pipeline needs fixing.
Water Technology

South Dakota Mines Professors Using Wastewater, Chemicals to Extract Rare Earth Minerals from Coal Sites

The research team is developing a three-step process involving rock breakdown, chemical conversion, and microbial absorption to efficiently and environmentally extract ...
FMIBlog

Smart Mining Costs Explained: How Automation Is Reshaping the Mining Value Chain

Smart mining is reshaping competition across the industry. Automation enables continuous operations, reduces downtime, and ...
IEEE

The Opportunism-Inhibiting Effects of the Alignment Between Engineering Project Characteristics and Contractual Governance: Paired Data From Contract Text Mining and Survey

Abstract: Engineering projects are vulnerable to opportunistic behavior due to their one-off and uncertain nature. Contractual governance is the crucial mechanism for matching the two key project ...
Finimize

Colliers’ Englobe Buys BESTECH To Expand Mining Engineering

What’s going on here? Colliers said its Canadian engineering unit, Englobe, is buying Ontario-based BESTECH to deepen its mining know-how and broaden its reach in Canada’s resource economy. BESTECH, ...