Ity Mine in Ivory Coast is an open pit gold mine located 650kms off the coast of Abidjan. Recently, it has received an EX1200-7BH excavator which gives Mining Skills Australia an opportunity to provide them with a trainer/assessor so that the operators on site can be familiarised with the new machinery. Our newly joined trainer and assessor, Diederick Johannes Dauth Wincento, commenced his training at Ity Mine in Ivory Coast in recent times. Being an experienced trainer and assessor...

  Mining Skills Australia experiences Mongolia. Not only is Mongolia known for its incredible Cashmere Industry, but more recently, a boom within the Resource Industry, with the recognition for expansion of knowledge and immersive based training within their Mining operations. With an invite from @Suld United LLC, @Mining Skills Australia had a wonderful opportunity to meet the organisations and people encouraging the Resource boom, showcasing the incredible technologies, learning resources, and training that Mining Skills Australia is known for. Graeme...

https://miningskills.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Machine-Management-Social-media.mp4   Quality is directly related to the attention to detail. In the Resources Industry, attention to detail is crucial to work safe and lower risks on site. Mining Skills Australia adheres to specific details aiding supervisors, management and operators to perform tasks safely and efficiently. Our Animation team, in consultation with subject matter experts, supports operators and those on site with knowledge based training through our animation and blended eLearning approach. Extensive research by our team combined with the various experiences...

  Mining Skills Australia provides a wide range of services through eLearning, utilising a blended learning approach and customising them according to your business needs across industries, globally. Standing strong to our foundation, we aim to widen our resource base of knowledge in conjunction with progressive technologies to develop and upgrade interactive training educational programs. On the journey of eLearning, Mining Skills Australia established an “Animation App”, that provides an effortless immersive experience to our service users. This App is...

https://miningskills.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ar-Advertisement-longer-video.m4v   What’s better than watching a real-world environment together with virtual details right in front of you? At @MiningSkillsAustralia we offer you a similar experience with one of the biggest technology trends, @AugmentedReality (AR). Linking the physical world to the digital platform, AR acts a channel between machines and humans. This growing technology allows @Miningskillsaustralia to expand its horizon and offer a hands-on approach towards teaching, allowing a 569-tonne excavator to land in front of you or even on...

  What skills that organisations need today and, in the future, are a moving target. In this new world of rapid changes – legislation, COVID-19, border closures etc. – organisations need to enable their workers to learn and apply these skills fast. Microcredentials blend innovative, highly scalable methods of instruction that provide accessible education to a wide range of learners against clearly defined outcomes. READ MORE

  We have reached over 1000 Linkedin Followers! What a year 2021 turned out to be… Mining Skills Australia is very proud to be what started as a small business in late 2019, surviving Covid and continuing to grow through the pandemic to now reaching company status and hitting major success milestones within Australia and Globally. We want to thank our followers for your continued support and encouragement throughout our journey, as we continue to develop the Mining Skills Australia...

  It takes years of training, hours studying machinery and equipment movement, scrutinizing hundreds of OEM’s and Training Manuals, countless iterative changes and weeks of work to ensure that Mining Skills Animations, correctly represent real life machinery / equipment movement. One of the processes that our animators use to create correct machine movement representation is through animation techniques called Articulation and Rigging. In short, Machine Articulation is essentially the points of a machine that bend and move. As for the...

  Andrew Holder, Mining Skills Australia, Managing Director recently conducted a Training Needs Analysis at the Ferrexpo mines in the Ukraine. Ferrexpo PLC is a Swiss-based commodity trading and mining company which is the third largest exporter of iron ore pellets in the world. Ferrexpo’s operating base is in central Ukraine, where it operates three iron-ore mines and an iron ore pellet production facility. The Training Needs Analysis was conducted over two weeks to evaluate operator mining standards in line...

https://miningskills.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Minesites.mp4   Mining Skills Australia's Animation Department have put together a scenario of the La Niña  effect on a mine site. Fun Fact: Did you know that in 2010-2011 La Niña nearly caused Australia's coal industry into a standstill? Here at Mining Skills Australia through our operator training we can provide proficiency training for all environments and conditions. As well as provide the animations to support. Contact Mining Skills Australia today on 07 3556 3982 or email [email protected] for further...

  Mining Skills Australia’s Animation, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are integral components of Mining Skills Australia’s eLearning capabilities. The animation’s when used as a learning tool severely outweighs other types of media for a variety of reasons and at MSA all animations are customisable experience tailored to your needs. As you can see, our Virtual Reality guru Mark is focused on a confined space project, here he is able to get real-world accuracy with the design through remote technologies....

  If you weren’t already aware, Mining Skills Australia have two of our trainers Brett and Shannon in South Africa. Their training has been successful and positive comments have come out of their trip so far. The consensus from both trainers is that the Mogalakwena mine operators are loving the experience and working alongside the trainers to gain more knowledge about processes. It really does highlight the importance of face to face training and it gives the trainers an opportunity...

  Mining Skills Australia’s Animation Department have been tirelessly working away to create effective and realistic results for our clients. Our Animation team produce animations that are industry backed practices, this means the animations created are an accurate and real representation of a real-world procedure, practice or piece of equipment. In this case the Dump Truck! We put it to you now, can you spot the difference between the real and the animated dump truck? Let us know which you...

  Mining Skills Australia’s Managing Director Andrew Holder has been fortunate to head abroad to Europe whereby he will be hands on with some training. As COVID-19 restrictions are ever changing it is great that we are back out there currently putting Mining Skills Australia on the map globally. Andy’s travels are taking him through Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ukraine and Amsterdam to visit Hitachi sites. These photos were captured during Andy’s time at Terrafame, in Finland. Do not underestimate our...

  Mining Skills Australia’s trainer Barry headed to Thunderbox for some training alongside site supervisor Matt where they captured this new piece of mining equipment, the Hitachi 1900-6. We want to thank the Thunderbox site supervisors for organising their operators to attend the familiarisation and proficiency skills. Contact Mining Skills Australia today to discuss how our trainers can assist your team! Call 0735563982 or email [email protected]

  Mining Skills Australia has again featured in Mine Magazine for the November 2021 Edition. We hope to only grow as a company and as our Director stated “Mine sites contend with balancing the gap between learning new knowledge and translating that knowledge into practice. Reducing that productivity gap is our focus.” Learn Local, Work global! Click on the link below to read more: Mining Skills Australia Company Insight – Mine | Issue 110 | November 2021 (nridigital.com) Do you...

  Mining Skills Australia is working alongside AngloAmerican and now the borders are open for International travel Mining Skills Australia have sent two of our trainers Brett and Shannon to Mogalakwena, South Africa to engage with operational training to improve the performance of their team at Mogalakwena Mine. Mogalakwena Mine is located near Mokopane where the mine was established in 1993, and is the largest open pit platinum mine in the world and 100% owned by our friends at Anglo...

              Mining Skills Australia had the privilege to be able to get hands on yesterday with some of Traumasim Group’s most advanced medically accurate products. These are designed to simulate realistic wounds, injuries and medical conditions to assist with training and assessment. Traumasim Group have given Mining Skills Australia’s Animation Department an exciting project to create an animation more gory than ever before, but will they make the cut. Our animators are ready for...

  Will and Cayden from Mining Skills Australia’s Animation team, had the opportunity to visit Ensham Resources mine site yesterday, south of Emerald, Queensland. Will and Cayden be spending the next few days on site to observe the operational conditions, safety matters and resources employed for underground coal mining activities. This is an important step when creating animation scenes so that Mining Skills Australia’s animations reflect accurate working conditions and mining environments providing a real time experience for the learner....

  In August, our Animators at Mining Skills Australia graduated from University. Our Animators at Mining Skills Australia studied a Bachelors Degree in Animation at SAE Institute. This was a full time 2 year (6 Trimester) fast tracked Bachelor's Degree, teaching all the skills required to become an industry ready animator. Some of these skills included: working to client technical specification, understanding and use of multiple programs used in the animation pipeline and how to create original content/media. This degree...