Job seekers in the Australian mining and construction industry were likely to benefit from a favourable hiring climate in the first quarter of 2012, said recruitment solutions provider Manpower.
Reuters reported that Mr Vladimir Putin PM of Russia facing a wave of voter outrage as he prepares a bid to return to the Kremlin intervened to prevent an archaic 67 year old aluminum smelter with 3,500 workers from closure. Mr Putin was informed at a...
The latest annual snapshot of the New South Wales mining industry re-affirms the Hunter Valley's status as the state's engine room.
Fraser Alexander was a foreman on a mine in South Africa in the early 1900s. He was in charge of building the sand and rock dumps.
Share this page Since 2009, the U.S. has been averaging a gain of nearly 7,000 mining jobs a month -- most of those in the upper Midwest. While mining can be a boom and bust industry, the prospect of thousands of new jobs has cities willing to take a...
New government data shows employment in the Appalachian mining industry is at a 14 year high. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration said that the total number of coal jobs nationwide is at its highest level since 1996, with 90,354 jobs in 2011.
Mmegi Online is reporting a major downsize has taken place at Debswana, a partnership between the Botswana government and De Beers.
On behalf of the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) and Minister of Health, Ryan Leef Member of Parliament for Yukon and Shelagh Rowles, Acting Vice-President of Education and Training at Yukon College today announced that resource development and exploration companies in Yukon will soon have more skilled local workers to choose from, thanks to two new mining technology programs at Yukon College.
In the midst of Canada's bleak October job report, Statistics Canada reported one bright spot: that the resource sector added 12,000 jobs. Canada, overall, lost 54,000 jobs in October pushing the unemployment rate up .2% to 7.3%. Statistics Canada says that the bulk of the decline in occurred in manufacturing, followed by construction. However, natural resources employment has grown by 5.0% over the past 12 months. The service sector remained unchanged.
Swedish engineering firm Sandvik AB (STO:SAND) announced today that 365 employees will lose their jobs as a result of company restructuring. The firm said the cuts resulted from a policy implemented in September at its Materials Technology division whose main objective is to "sustainably reduce the overall cost structure by approximately 500 MSEK over a two to three year period, through such measures as reducing costs for staff and administration..." The layoffs will affect 500 Sandvik employees worldwide including 365 in Sandviken and Hallstahammar, Sweden.
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