Bloomberg Businessweek Reports on the Tremendous Demand for Mining School Graduates

In Bloomberg Businessweek’s article, “Harvard Losing Out to South Dakota in Graduate Pay,” reporter Joe Richter discusses today’s growing demand for mining-school graduates. Frank Holmes says the unusual shortage of engineers, geoscientists and other mining workers is increasing the cost of new projects and “may contribute to delays limiting production growth, especially in copper.”

In a recent blog post, Frank shows how the best job growth has been in the mining industry. We believe this employment trend in the sector represents another beneficiary of the supercycle taking place in commodities.

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