What does a Mining Engineer do?
Mining Engineering offers a diverse range of career paths, very high salary levels and excellent opportunities for career progression. This is because it is a truly global profession with opportunities to work around Australia or around the world in a diverse range of activities involving technology, people, business, equipment, financial resources, community and government. Graduates with a degree in mining engineering tend to be very versatile and can progress rapidly both within the mining industry and in industries affiliated to the industry. They have contributed to the continual growth and development of the minerals industry, making it one of the most efficient and productive in the world. Within the mining and quarrying industries, opportunities exist to work in technical roles such as planning and design engineers production roles such as supervisors and mine managers business development roles such as project managers and marketing Because of the scale and efficiency of the m
