A huge 'Thank You' to Young Mining Professionals Brisbane, for hosting a lunchtime networking event on 24th of June at the Bavarian, Eagle Street in Brisbane's CBD. Mining Skills Australia's accountants Valentina Rodriguez and Sol Mary Gomez were in attendance and enjoyed connecting with other industry professionals. We look forward to attending the next Young Mining Professionals Brisbane event

    The Mining Skills Australia's Animation team visited Anglo American's Moranbah North mine site to get reference images, videos and documentation for an upcoming project. The Animation team's mantra is "we can never have too many references" and visiting a site allows them to get what they need in person, allowing for unparalleled detail and machine operation accuracy, scaling to equipment and environment size. To discuss how Mining Skills Australia is a good fit for your organisation, visit our website or contact...

      With the Mining Skills Australia training team increasing across the globe, we would like to highlight the great work that they are doing on site. Richard Hunter, a Mining Skills Australia Trainer and Assessor has been providing New Equipment Familiarisation, Preventative Maintenance and Operator Proficiency Training, on the Hitachi EX3600-7BH at the Hunter Valley Operations, NSW site. Richard is an experienced Trainer & Assessor who has worked in Gold, Iron Ore, and Coal mines and has spent 8 years in Civil...

      Back in March 2020 - Mining Skills Australia opened it's first office, in the centre of Brisbane CBD, with a total of 4 staff members, a week before the #covid lockdown.... Now, after surviving the #covid19pandemic as a #smallbusiness and through the hard work of our team members and developing long term relationships with our customers and clients, Mining Skills Australia has moved to a larger office space and is proud to be a 60 personnel sized #company comprising of our CBD office and on site employees. Our continued...

https://miningskills.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/NightAnimation.mp4     The Animation team here at Mining Skills Australia continues to amaze our clients with their talent and creativity. Check out how realistic this animation is, created by one of our lead and day one animators, Damon Binstead. This latest animation was achieved by observing real life footage while trying to replicate all the natural actions and environment, including observing the lighting and adding a hand held motion to the camera angle created, driving a realistic mood to the presentation. Anyone...

    Congratulations to Mr. Enkhbadrakh Ochirkhuyag from the Mining Skills Australia Mongolia office, for his podium finish in the OBO Drift Series. Driving in the Obo Customs and Mining Skills Australia sponsored car, he battled opponents in head-to-head drift races to finish in third place. We can’t wait for your next race!

  Without a doubt, Mining Skills Australia’s passion and drive is to provide equal education opportunities for everyone. This was the motivation (and still is) for developing animation to be used, within the Resource Industry training, as an alternative to the old ‘pen and paper / tick and flick’ approach. This form of training is not inclusive for those with Language, Literacy or Numeracy difficulties (which is still, much of our workforce in Australia, but also providing supportive pathways for Indigenous...

  Last week Mining Skills Australia had the honour of presenting at the Resources Training Council’s Annual Conference. The first RTC conference held in 3 years, due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, it was a great opportunity to support the resources industry, along side other influential resource and industry leaders across Australia. The team at Mining Skills Australia, including Graeme Bradshaw, Gary Bradshaw, Emma Hutson, Qasim Ahsan and Phil White, discussed the topic, "Does competency meet the requirements for Industry (Lifting the Industry Training Standards)?" The theme was presented through the...

  Mining Skills Australia would very much like to thank and show their appreciation to Troy Byers, organiser of the International Legends of League event, respected community member and International Legends of League player, Reggie Cressbrook for making it happen in Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council, Baralaba State School and Biloela, BANANA SHIRE COUNCIL, the Rebel Sports Callide Valley Allstars team and the International Legends of League players for sharing their experiences, participation and community support. Mining Skills Australia would also like to thank and show their appreciation...

  Saturday the 8th of May, was game day and the weather held off for this amazing event. The community well and truly showed up in their numbers to cheer on the event with a crowd of over 2000’s supporters. The community field and stands were outstanding and the hospitality on the day from the Biloela Panthers Rugby League club was exceptional. A huge afternoon of Rugby League with community games playing right up until the main event, the Rebel Sports...

  On Friday the 6th of May, Graeme Bradshaw, Andy Holder, Emma Hutson, Rachel Hawker – the Mining Skills Australia Emergency Management Manager, her husband Steve, and Mining Skills Australia own League Legend, Geoff and Michelle Bradshaw – were involved in the Biloela Bowls Competition and afternoon barbeque with other sponsors of the event. It was a great afternoon with a bit of playful competition between the International Legends of League and other participating sponsors. Following was the official International Legends of League team dinner, where Graeme Bradshaw was presented the...

  Mining Skills Australia was presented with an incredible opportunity to be a major sponsor of the International Legends of League. It all started last Thursday, 5th of May with a visit to the local BANANA SHIRE COUNCIL communities and their schools, including Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council and Baralaba State School, was welcomed with open arms and amazing hospitality. Graeme Bradshaw, Director, and RTO Manager,Emma Hutson, represented Mining Skills Australia, while the International Legends of League, NRL Legends, spoke to Woorabinda State School, Wadja Wadja High School and Baralaba State School about...

    Recently, the International Legends of League organizer, Troy Byers was delighted to visit Mining Skills Australia and the team at Brisbane HQ. While sharing his experience and looking at our services, Troy was excited to receive our support for the event in Banana Shire Council and Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council. Mining Skills Australia is thankful to Troy and Banana Shire Council to provide us an amazing opportunity to showcase our community support. Come and watch the Mining Skills Australia Aussie...

https://miningskills.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/VLL11422G30_1.mp4   The ultimate international tournament of Legends of League has returned in its twelfth year. This year the International Legends of League (ILOL) is scheduled at Panthers RLFC Biloela Grounds on Saturday 7th May from 12pm where Mining Skills Australia has received an excellent opportunity to be one of the major sponsors for the team. The ILOL includes a high-profile past National Rugby League players across the event, resulting in enormous goodwill and interest from the local community. For...

      Rachel Hawker, Project Manager for the Emergency Management Department of Mining Skills Australia, along with her team of Paramedics, recently got a wonderful opportunity to visit Isaac Downs Mine Site at Moranbah. The introduction of EPSA to Australia has opened opportunities for Mining Skills Australia to develop and assist them with Paramedics and an Emergency Response Team on site. Mining Skills Australia provide Paramedics, Credentialling, clinical Governance, Medical Oversight & Drug/Poisons Licence to ensure safety by complying...

  In an increasingly competitive resource market, mining companies are required to formulate effectively and steer the business. With the introduction of EPSA to Australia, Mining Skills Australia has been provided the opportunity to continue to support and assist EPSA during this process through providing training resources, Maintenance and Certificate training, Paramedics, and an Emergency Response Team. Our leadership team including Gary Bradshaw, Rachel Hawker, and Graeme Bradshaw, visited the Isaac Downs site in Central Queensland, to assist with the...

  Mining Skills Australia believes it is essential to standardise the operator techniques based on the requirements of your mine site. MSA streamlines the production operators across various mine sites globally to enhance the productivity of our clientele. Our Training specialist, Richard Hunter showcasing his experience at the Rio Tinto – Brockman 2 mine site. With the ongoing pandemic situation has affected various workplaces, including shortage of mine operators. To fulfill the space, organisations focus on upskilling their workforce. Mining...

  With the discovery of Mining Skills Australia’s eLearning capabilities and blended learning resources, so has been the growth of our clientele and in turn the need to expand our team. The RTO (Registered Training Organisation) Department for MSA was created a year ago, which only comprised of Emma and the help of MSA admin, to now a strong and dynamic team, focused on compliancy, organisation, creativity and support for our clients and admissions (Ava, Tia, Anne, Emma and Nikola...

        Compared to previous times, mining is substantially safer, however, fundamentally it can be challenging and risk to injury to personnel is still something to be conscious of. With opportunities to potential risks, several operations at various Mine sites within Australia, aim to include Emergency Response Team (ERT) to respond to the dangerous incidents. The members of the Emergency Response Team are highly skilled and trained to handle any hazardous incidents. In the Resource Industry, Paramedics established...

  Do you ever wonder how we effortlessly connect to the real world through animation? Animation enables us to communicate stories in a unique pattern, making humans of any age to understand the idea with ease. Similarly, Mining Skills Australia designs the animations that can be easily connected by an ordinary person. One important factor in animation is scaling. Our animator’s work with dozens of technical manuals and hundreds of reference images to get the scale of machines right. This...