🚨 Attention Start-Up & Junior Miners 🚨
I’ve created a dedicated platform to collect information from emerging mining projects that are seeking funding or partnership opportunities.
A prominent funding institution is currently looking for credible, investment-ready mining projects, and this link will help us profile and communicate your project directly to them.
If you are a start-up miner, junior miner, or developing a new mining project, please take a few minutes to complete the form below:
👉 Project Submission Form: https://t.co/4RskTduECY
Your information will only be used for project assessment and communication with potential funding partners.
Let’s help get more mining projects funded and moving forward. ⛏️💼
Breaking Barriers for Mining Graduates: A Call for Reform.
In the current climate of retrenchments and persistently low employment rates, we are witnessing a growing concern that goes beyond job scarcity, it’s the stagnation of professional growth among our mining graduates.
Many qualified young professionals are eager to advance their careers through the Certificates of Competency, whether it’s for Blasting Certificates, Mine Overseer’s (MOs), or Mine Manager’s Certificates (MMCs). Yet, despite meeting academic requirements, they face a bureaucratic dead end:
They cannot sit for their exams because they have no one to sign their letters of sobriety.
This requirement, though rooted in ensuring safety and integrity in the field, is now unintentionally locking out competent and qualified candidates, particularly those who are unemployed or retrenched and therefore not attached to a mine where such endorsement can be obtained.
The consequence?
These individuals remain stuck in a holding pattern unable to complete their professional qualifications, unable to progress, and unable to contribute their skills to an industry that desperately needs rejuvenation.
The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) and industry stakeholders, perhaps it is time we rethink and reform this process. There must be alternative pathways for these graduates to demonstrate their competency and sobriety. whether through verified mentorship programmes, accredited assessors, or community-based attestations without compromising safety or professional standards.
If we truly believe in building a sustainable and inclusive mining sector, then we must ensure that our systems do not inadvertently gatekeep opportunity, especially for the next generation of mining professionals.
It’s not just about employment anymore, it’s about enabling growth, maintaining hope, and preserving the future of our industry.
26 March 2024, I started to deliberately incorporate some of this learnings outlined by Chief Idea Officer @IanChauke1 and I’ve had a mental shift.
Start with No. 4, 10 & 31.
🎓 GIVEAWAY ALERT for Future Mining Professionals!
I’m giving away 5 seats to The Mining Professionals Luncheon — exclusively for students who aspire to be the next generation of leaders in the mining industry. ⛏️
If you’re passionate about mining, minerals, and making a real impact in the sector, this is your chance to network, learn, and connect with some of the industry’s brightest minds.
👉 All you need to do:
1️⃣ Repost this post
2️⃣ Comment “Me” below 👇
Let’s open the doors for young, driven individuals to step into the spaces they deserve to occupy. 🌍
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