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BHP trains up students

THE week-long Make it now in Trades (MINT) challenge – a collaboration between BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) and the Queensland Minerals and Energy Academy (QMEA) – has given 20 students from regional Queensland the training tools to become future tradies.

Anthony Barich
(l-r) D. Parsons, S. Buckingham, J. Sievers and L. Smith from the Blackwater, Dysart SHS and Marist College Emerald.

(l-r) D. Parsons, S. Buckingham, J. Sievers and L. Smith from the Blackwater, Dysart SHS and Marist College Emerald.

The students worked with supervisors and fourth-year apprentices from BMA’s Saraji mine to design and manufacture a motorised pushbike to industry standards as they completed four days of intensive trade...

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