Resources and Energy Investment Symposium

By David Kanagy posted 05-21-2013 04:04 PM

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Speaking at the Resources and Energy Investment Symposium in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, I gave a speech on workforce trends in the U.S. mining industry. I pointed out to the audience, that in the U.S. one-quarter of one percent of the entire U.S. workforce - or about 350,000 people - are in the mining industry. However, that small number of workers is the beginning of the value chain that regularly contributes between 13-14% to the U.S. economic growth. There are significant pressures, however, on the U.S. mining industry to backfill a projected loss of 52% of senior workers by 2019. Competition from higher paying mining jobs in in Canada, Australia and South America are adding to the pressure for skilled workers in the U.S. workforce pipeline to fill these positions. These conclusions were documented in a recent report from the National Research Council on "Emerging Workforce Trends in the U.S. Energy and Mining Sectors." SME provided the information on the U.S. mining industry workforce for this final NRC report.

Here I am standing in front of the stage at the Resources and Energy Investment Symposium
in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia.

SME report: Emerging Workforce Trends in U.S. Mining Industry

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