PERTH - Recruitment and labour hire specialists Humanis Group will acquire a 49% interest in Springsure Mining, which will build a training mine near Newcastle in New South Wales to provide practical and theoretical training. Humanis said on Tuesday that the agreement would provide the group with a compelling selling proposition to supply mine site trained personnel to the industry.

The training mine would seek to tackle the recent and expected future shortage of skilled labour by means of a practical real-life mining operation, MD George Gelavis said.