CME Chief Executive Paul Everingham used his columns in this month’s Kalgoorlie Miner, Pilbara News and North West Telegraph to highlight the skills squeeze impacting WA’s mining and resources sector. This came after the release of CME-commissioned research into a nationwide skills shortage that could see the sector with a potential shortfall of as many as 33,000 workers in the second half of 2023 if the situation is not addressed.
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‘Australia’s most elusive bird’ pops up in the Pilbara
It once went missing for 67 years, and finding one was compared to discovering “Elvis flipping burgers in an outback roadhouse.”
But scientists at a WA mine site have discovered fresh evidence of the very hard-to-find night parrot.
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Evolution joins mining’s EV revolution
It doesn’t look like the majority of smaller vehicles seen on site but it’s what’s under the bonnet – or, more to the point, what isn’t – that makes the introduction of the Rokion R200 at a Goldfields mine a potential game-changer.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3xrWhzz
King Henry, the giant gold rock, goes on permanent display in WA
Weighing in at 93kg and containing more than $3 million of gold, King Henry may be the world’s largest gold rock specimen currently in existence.
But best of all, it’s staying right here in WA for us all to enjoy.
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