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Miners urged to employ training centre graduates

A training centre for unemployed people in north-west Queensland is pushing for mining and liquefied natural gas (LNG) companies to give its trainees jobs, rather than sourcing overseas labour.

The Myuma centre in Camooweal, north-west of Mount Isa, is training 30 people in roadworks, hospitality and administration industries.

Spokesman Colin Saltmere says it is negotiating with several resources companies to employ its graduates.

"The LNG [industry] need a lot, a lot of, a lot of, a lot of people and you need to be aligned with that sort of stuff," he said.

ABC Online | March 24, 2011 | 12:54 pm

Kinross sells Harry Winston shares

Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX:K)(NYSE:KGC) announced today that it has sold its approximate 8.5% equity interest in Harry Winston Diamond Corporation ("Harry Winston"), consisting of approximately 7.1 million Harry Winston common shares, on an underwritten block trade basis, for gross proceeds of CDN$100 million. On August 25, 2010, Kinross announced that it had completed the sale of its former 22.5% interest in the partnership holding Harry Winston's 40% interest in the Diavik Diamond Mines joint venture to Harry Winston for US$50 million cash, 7.1 million Harry Winston common shares, and a note payable in the amount of US$70 million maturing 12 months from the date of the sale.

Marketwire | March 24, 2011 | 5:46 am

Review: A New Culture of Learning

Maish R. Nichani, editor of the elearningpost blog, reviews Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown's book A New Culture of Learning, which explores the concept that "the world is changing faster than ever and our skill sets have a shorter and shorter life." One beautiful aspect that the authors highlight is the importance of learning “how to learn from others”. ‘Others’ here refers to peers and the community at large. The reason I find this beautiful is because I’ve come across people who think that teaching is the only way to learn and teachers are the only people who can teach.

Joanna Gaskell - Education Editor | March 23, 2011 | 1:48 pm

Gold and silver’s daily review

Where next? In such an environment there is little prospect of raising confidence, lowering uncertainty and stabilizing the developed world’s economies. In such an environment which fully reasoning investor is going to exit precious metals?

Julian D.W. Phillips - Gold Forecaster | March 22, 2011 | 5:17 pm

The value of paper money slowly erodes the longer you keep it.

As I have mentioned countless times, we live in rather turbulent times, and thus it is prudent to take the right precautions to protect your assets correctly.

David Levenstein | March 22, 2011 | 4:37 pm

Mining 101 workshop in Sydney and Perth

Join the Mining 101 workshop to gain a comprehensive but straightforward (no jargon) explanation of what the mining industry is, and how it works.

Mining 101 is aimed at people working in associated sectors (the financial community, lawyers, PR companies, equipment manufacturers, service providers, etc) who would benefit from an overview of mining, and be in a better position as a result to develop more business opportunities.

Sydney: Tuesday May 31st 2011, Radisson Paza Hotel
Perth: Tuesday June 14th 2011, Pan Pacific Hotel

Commodities Now | March 22, 2011 | 1:17 pm