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Skills crisis far from over

THE shortage of skilled labour facing Australia’s resources sector is set to reach critical levels by 2015 with forecasts an extra 61,559 workers will be needed to fuel the minerals boom.

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Skills crisis far from over

In the mining discipline, this equates to 3000 vacancies for geologists and 1700 for mining engineers within the next five years, of which Western Australia accounts for a large proportion of demand, not...

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