Miners snap up graduates as industry booms

New mmanganse casting and machining south africaining graduates are in high demand as the industry booms, and they can expect to walk straight into well paid jobs across the globe, an academic at Britain's only mining school said on Monday. "These are pretty halcyon days.

Our graduates are pretty well sought after, particularly in Australia. That's a big market for us, and South America," said Andy Wetherelt, programme director for the B.Eng mining programme at the Camborne School of Mines (CSM) in Cornwall. "It's very buoyant at the moment. A first-class student can expect two, or even three or four job offers. People are queuing up to take them." CSM, which was founded in 1888, is part of the University of Exeter in Devon. Aside from mining and mineral processing, CSM courses cover geology and renewable energy. Wetherelt said the boom was across the mining industry, but in metals was especially strong in iron ore and gold...