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More Zinc Jobs Lost
August 27 | Timminspress.com

Blue Note Mining will cut back the number of workers at the Caribou Zinc Mine in New Brunswick and cut capital spending. These reductions are in response to the falling price of zinc.

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The Broken Hill Mine is one of the best-known producers of lead and zinc in Australia. They will...

Mine Worker Shortage
October 3 | Timmins Press
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July: 10,000 New Mining Jobs
August 3 | LA Times
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Zinc Mine Opens in South Australia
September 19 | ABC News
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Job Losses in the Mining Sector
October 22 | International Herald Tribune
After months of seeing steady employment gains in the metal and fossil fuel mining sectors the news of lay-offs is...

Top Job Areas: Pipelines, Oil & Gas, Mining
June 8 | TheStreet.com
Jobs in the pipeline transportation and the mining and oil and gas sectors topped the list of employee needs in...

Busted on Fake Mining Jobs
June 28 | Brisbane Times
A job recruitment website was offering guaranteed jobs at a gold mine in Queensland, Australia. Applicants were to send...

Canada: 92,000 New Mining Jobs by 2017
May 7 | The Globe and Mail
The need for skilled mining industry professionals in Canada is going up faster than Canadian schools can gradate students. ...

Geoscience Jobs Are Abundant
August 9 | Science
An article in Science reports that demand for geoscientists remains very high in the petroleum, mining and environmental consulting sectors...

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