Mining suffers shortage of high tech skills: QRC

SKILLED trades people needed to take the coal mining industry to the next level using new technologies such as driverless trucks and augmented reality are consistently in short supply, according to the Queensland Resources Council.

Mining suffers shortage of high tech skills: QRC

27 July 2017
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A Toolkit for School Kids event, run by the Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy, is an attempt to help redress this shortage by giving students an opportunity to talk with apprentices, tradies,

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