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Fragomen: Finding the Skills – Still the Issue...

One of the essential issues confronting the resource industry is that there are more planned mining projects than there are people to construct and operate them. As of April 2010, the Australian Government identified 75 advanced major resource projects with a value of $109.6 billion, and 286 less-advanced projects with a value of $249.9 billion. With such significant numbers of projects underway or in the planning stages, pressure on the skilled and semi-skilled workforce will be at its peak for the next 10 years and beyond.