Experts say 2016 the year mining industry recovered
Economists and other experts say the uptick in Australia's mining marks a turnaround in fortunes.
What to do when someone quits on you
This past two years many mining businesses and site departments have 'trimmed the fat', 'right sized' and basically lost every person that wasn't deemed absolutely essential to daily operations.
Mining people leave other people, not mining companies
In recent years the mining employment market has generally ebbed and flowed roughly as follows:
Leader or Manager?
A list of differences between a manager and a leader as presented in 'On Becoming A Leader' by Warren Bennis.
So what is the mining industry thinking?
We recently created the new Mining People International (MPi) Polling Booth. The idea was to survey visitors to the MPi website and then feed the results back in quick time to readers of MPi News and various other MPi publications.
Mining Jobs and Income Protection
Every person that goes to work in the morning and comes home at night satisfied to have given 100% at their job, is not just working for the joy of the exercise.
In figures: How big is Australia's iron ore industry?
But just how big is the Australian iron ore industry? Let's have a look at it, in numbers.
The pros and cons of living in a mining community
What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of living in a remote mining town?
by Leah Fogliani · Oct 12, 2016
Skills of the future worker
We are part of an era being likened to the industrial revolution in how much change will occur in the workplace, to roles, to industry and how we all work.
It's back to the future for mining industry job demand
As things start to hot up, it's back to the future for mining industry job demand
by Steve Heather · Sep 22, 2016
Why time seems to go by more quickly as we get older
The five-year period you experienced between the ages of five and ten could feel just as long as the period between the ages of 40 and 80, writes Christian Yates.
Lowering horses through small shafts
In this article from the January 1916 issue of Mining Magazine, M T Taylor recommends a method for getting horses into underground mines through small shafts.