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Letter: Leaders asleep at the wheel

The UK mining industry is not producing the professionals for a net-zero future

Chris Hinde, former Mining Journal editor and S&P Global Market Intelligence reports director, metals and mining
There is a lack of students coming through mining courses in the UK (Image: Sincerely Media)

There is a lack of students coming through mining courses in the UK (Image: Sincerely Media)

This report examined the industry's imminent skills shortage, and regretted Exeter University's "pausing" of mining undergraduate enrolment at Camborne School of Mines in 2020.    Hard on the heels...

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