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MANPOWER AND TRAINING
MANPOWER AND TRAINING
Pages 55-60
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in western surface mine production. Thus, by 1985, the total work force in the bituminous industry will have grown by about 71 percent.1 Using a conservative estimate of annual industry losses due to retirements, deaths, and turnover of 2-1/2 percent, total replacements needed for the 1975-1985 period will be 62,000 because of attrition plus the 90,000 new personnel or a total of 152,000.
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The facilities and faculty of mining engineering departments are strained to train the current enrollment, and the national energy plan for increasing coal production should give attention to strengthening the educational capabilities at mining engineering schools. Towards this end, the Panel endorses the 1969 recommendations of the National Research Council Panel on Mining:3 1.
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While these recommendations deal primarily with coal and not with the remainder of the mining industry, the Panel believes that the nation shortly will be confronted with growing shortages of a variety of mineral raw materials that could be as critical as those encountered in the energy area. It is difficult to estimate the total mining engineering needs of the nation.
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Senate, The Minerals, Materials and Fuels Subcommittee on Senate Bill S-62," Congressional Record, November 4, 1975.
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The mining industry also will require a substantial number of mining technologists to supplement and support the mining engineering staffs. Training programs for mining technologists are in their infancy, but initiation of this relatively new educational concept in technical schools, junior colleges, community colleges, and four-year institutions has been rapid.
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