The Sudbury Area Mining Supply and Service Association argues that Ontario must make Laurentian University into a global “Harvard of hardrock mining” in order to carry Canada through its current resource skills shortage.
Ontario’s mining industry is facing a perfect storm of skills shortages – mining engineers and geologists – at a time of severe provincial budget constraints. These fiscal problems will only diminish the mineral sector’s post-secondary education programs at a time when global economies are experiencing the most extraordinary demands for metal products in the history of mankind – a commodity super cycle