You might be a bit like us and have a vague awareness of the minerals and mining sector but haven\u2019t explored it much in recent years.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t until we started chatting with some of our employer partners that we realised how exciting and innovative the industry is!<\/p>\n
There are more than 100 careers across the sector within mining sites, high-tech remote centres, science, and computer innovation. Technology is boosting the entire industry, and there\u2019s never been a better time to see where a career might take you.<\/p>\n
With the Minerals Council of Australia\u2019s Minerals Week 2022<\/a> kicking off today\u00a0 – you know what we had to do! Keep reading to uncover some of the innovative careers you could start with today.<\/p>\n Minerals Week runs from the 5th to the 7th of September and is the industry’s opportunity to celebrate the mining sector’s contribution to the Australian economy.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also a chance for different organisations and groups to explore key issues, challenges, innovations and successes together!<\/p>\n These can be highly varied but include:<\/p>\n According to the Minerals Council of Australia, Australia has the world\u2019s largest economic demonstrated resources of mineral sands, brown coal, uranium, nickel, zinc and lead!<\/p>\n Australia ranks in the world\u2019s top six for bauxite, black coal, copper, gold, iron ore and industrial diamonds.<\/p>\n For a full list of the minerals<\/a> mined in Australia, head over to the Minerals Council of Australia website (there are some pretty cool pictures of what each of these minerals looks like, too!).<\/p>\n The mining industry is undergoing significant technological developments, which is creating heaps of new roles alongside opportunities to upskill for existing workers.<\/p>\n Career paths could involve managing a team, rehabilitating mine sites, building robotics or piloting drones, engineering machinery, safeguarding native plants and animals, or tackling climate change.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s take a closer look:<\/strong><\/p>\n As always, this is just touching the surface of the expanse of opportunities available across mining!<\/p>\n This includes roles in business and organisational support and a full range of growing roles in AI and robotic technology. We highly recommend downloading the free Make Your Career in Mining<\/a> booklet from Minerals Council Australia to explore these careers further.<\/p>\n At Explore Careers, we\u2019re incredibly proud to partner with the Minerals Council of Australia<\/a>. They\u2019re a perfect first point to head to if you\u2019re keen to learn more about working in minerals and mining.<\/p>\n You might also want to check out Engineers Australia<\/a> for all things engineering across the sector and to discover more about your potential entry into the sector.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve also had some super exciting interviews recently with some of our employer partners in the mining sector – and we\u2019ve learned heaps! If you haven\u2019t already, watch our recent chat with Logan, an Automation and Product Engineer with Newscrest<\/a> (it\u2019s seriously worth it!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You might be a bit like us and have a vague awareness of the minerals and mining sector but haven\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[34],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14411,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14121\/revisions\/14411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/explorecareers.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is Minerals Week?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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What Minerals are Mined in Australia?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
8 Innovative Roles to Explore in Australia Mining<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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