mining engineering
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She reluctantly enrolled to study mining engineering and, at one point, considered joining her father in "a boring nine-to-five job, working with money".
From BBC • Jan. 1, 2024
As fast as possible, Jack Groppo, professor of mining engineering at the University of Kentucky, says, people have to stop scrapping the modules.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2023
He’d gotten a degree in mining engineering but couldn’t get a job in the field.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2022
The perception of mining as hostile to women and people of colour has only exacerbated the industry's talent problem, with enrolment in mining engineering programs plunging across the United States, Canada and Australia.
From Reuters • Feb. 2, 2022
The most dominant characteristic of the mining engineering profession is the vast preponderance of the commercial over the technical in the daily work of the engineer.
From Principles of Mining Valuation, Organization and Administration by Hoover, Herbert
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