BHP Billiton has confirmed that drivers will still be needed for new trains heading to its Pilbara operations. The confirmation comes after BHP awarded Downer EDI a $292 million five year contract to supply new locomotives to its iron ore operations.
The salaries that high school grads can pull in from mining has at least one Idaho teacher considering a mid-life career change.
The mining industry in Nevada is becoming a catalyst for an employment revival.
At least 146 employees of a Newton County aluminum extrusion plant will lose their jobs this summer when the facility is closed.
Statistics Canada reported Friday that of the jobs created in January 65% were in Alberta.
Gold futures eased Friday after better than expected US jobs data made further relaxation in Fed monetary policy, already very loose, less likely and money flowed into stocks.
Spot gold hit a high of $1,762.90 in early trade but failed to maintain traction ahead of key U.S. payrolls data later in the day.
Canada's mining sector contributed $36 billion to the national GDP in 2010, and employed 308,000 workers in mineral extraction, smelting, fabrication and manufacturing. An additional 3,215 companies supplied engineering, geotechnical, environmental, financial and other services to mining operations.
The news wires are abuzz with the announcement that Obama has caved into his party's environmental wing and killed the Keystone pipeline that would have carried Canadian oil to the refineries along the Gulf coast.
Atlas Iron chief executive David Flanagan says the Pilbara iron ore miner might need an extra 1,000 workers within three years to feed its expansion projects.