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Skilled trades in demand as mining industry booms

Sudbury Star | April 29, 2012 | 6:00 pm Education Europe

Jeff Lafortune teaches in the civil and mining engineering technologist program at College Boreal he graduated from 15 years ago. In that decade and a half, he’s seen a tremendous demand build for skilled mining employees. "When I graduated, there was one…