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Free Basic Mine Site Operations (Hardrock)

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AssociatedLUnderground training on 06/12/2012 - 16:18 undergroundtraining.com.au (431 clicks)
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This courses will take up to 9-12 hours to complete and will be divided into 6 major modules with multiple choice assessments at the end of each module
Duties of Employers and Employees on a mine site
How to work Safely on a mine site (Working in the Hazardous Work Place)
Personnel & Their Duties (Who Does What in the Mine)
How the Underground Mine Works (Headings, Stopes, Ground Support, Paste, Escape Ways, Firing Explosives and Bogging)
Scaling (Removing the Loose Rocks off the Walls)
How an open cut pit works
The Different Mining Companies including interview techniques (Talking about the mining companies and conduction of a mock interview)
Information on all entry level roles incl. Drillers offsiding, Shut down work, construction work, and hard rock mining.

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  • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 16:22
    +2

    We are giving away this course so people can see if Hardrock mining is going to be for them. Just follow the link and click on the Promotional offers button then leave your details and we will send you a product key.

  • Derrick Crane on 06/12/2012 - 16:23
    +3

    I've always wondered how you bog in an underground mine.

  • sonicentropy on 06/12/2012 - 16:24
    +4

    This has about as much credibility as my thai $45 padi certificate

    • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 16:36
      +1

      Sorry but the deal is real. Why are we doing this? Because the Hardrock underground mining industry needs people that know how a mine works, this free course leads into our full correspondence course that includes our Job ready placement program.

      • IVI on 06/12/2012 - 17:54

        This could be a real deal… One question:

        Do your certificates list Nationally Accredited (in AU) training modules?

        Perhaps your can list the modules by their National Accreditation number for us, so we can see how they compare to ones requested by employers & contractors in Australia…?

        TIA

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 18:36

          Because this is only a new course at this stage it is only industry reconised. The reason that we have done these courses is because there is no nationally accredited training for hardrock mines and the industry needs new people that know how a mine works and the entry level jobs that you are going to be required to do.

        • IVI on 06/12/2012 - 18:48

          Well, whether or not an employer buys-into it, it can't hurt to take such a course, eg, before a first
          face-to-face MARCSTA-course (for WA), so, I'd say it's a deal.

          Oh, is there any take-away study / review / summary guide (eg, downloadable PDF file)?

          THAT would add value to an online course…

        • Zarcady on 06/12/2012 - 18:55

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        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 19:00
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          Iron and coal exports have slowed due to decreased demand and over supply, in the hunter valley alone close to 1000 jobs have been axed, along with numerous projects out on the back burner. WA and QLD are in similar boats. The level of growth was never sustainable.

        • Zarcady on 06/12/2012 - 19:07

          Hmm but aren't most of the jobs that have been axed from workers that actually work in the productive side of mining? like truck drivers and riggers and such…I'm not sure if geologists are related in that regard but I guess if jobs are getting axed, then it could be tertiary jobs as well…=(

          More reason to stick to Ozbargain to live frugally I guess…sigh

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 19:16
          +1

          This statement you have made about WA is just not true.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 19:22
          +1

          The MARCSTA has had its day. The only companies that I know of that still require it are the big iron ore companies like BHP and Rio for their construction and shut down workers.

        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 19:23

          Considering MARCSTA is a legal requirement in WA you are incorrect.

        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 19:26
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          The problem is that grad spots tend to be pretty fierce in regards to competition, plenty of sites are after geo's with exp not so much cleanskins. At the couple of sites I work for the positions axed were subbies and office, but most of them were redeployed. It varies too much to give you an accurate answer.

          Don't expect the huge money to be there forever, sooner or later the bubble will burst.

        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 19:28
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          IVI ill ask a mate in HR tomorrow whether or not they recognize non accreditated courses, I'm banking it's a resounding no.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 19:30
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          I'm sorry but you really need to check your facts as you have just shown anyone involved with the industry how little you know. MARCSTA is NOT a legal requirement in WA it was started by the mining companies in 1996. It has gone from a 5 day course to a 4 hour course. If the employer wants you to have it they will pay for it but none of our students that have gotten jobs has needed it.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 19:37
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          You can ask your HR mate all you want and it won't make any difference, you are talking about coal and this is NOT a coal mining course so unless your mate has 80 years hardrock mining experience like the 3 ticketed shiftboss we have on staff then I reckon you going to get told that you have to do the coal board course in NSW to get a job in the hunter but what about out in Cobar because we have had several students get jobs their just because of the full course they did.

        • [Deactivated] on 06/12/2012 - 20:23

          what the hell has that got to do with the deal?

        • Abbi on 07/12/2012 - 07:21
          +2

          OP: just ignore Copie, he's the resident troll around here. Knows nothing but spouts rubbish on most topics.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 09/12/2012 - 19:10
          +1

          That's Chilled, your right about him being a troll. The information that he is giving out is not correct and I see his HR mate must of set him straight.

    • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 18:26
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      Pretty much, any mine will laugh at you for doing something like this.

      And with the mining sector slowing, non tert jobs are drying up. It's pretty simple on how to get into the mines eg:

      A: Hold a HR or above license + experience for min 3 years
      B: know someone
      C: be a geo tech.

      Source: I do a bit of work for Ricks Creek/Mt Arthur/Foley.

      It's company's such as the OP is why it's such a clusterruck to even get into the industry.

      Forgot to mention, every site is different for inductions, adding further evidence to your load of rubbish your trying to peddle.

      • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 18:33
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        Another arm chair expert that does some work in the mines, what work do you do because we are ticketed WA shift bosses. This is not an induction it really does teach you how a hard rock mine works. Why don't you do the course before making a statement like this.

        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 18:39
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          Driving, loader and some rigging work. Why would I need to do a course for? You don't even offer the GSI, nor have you provided an accreditation number.

          Truth be told you don't offer any of the work cover courses for skidsteer,crane,rigging or white card.

          Your no different to any other website offering 'get work in mines for cash dollars'

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 18:48
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          This is how clueless you are about the mining industry, your talking about coal. This is a course for Hardrock mining and for anyone reading this all those jobs you are talking about are suport roles, courses for skidsteer,crane,rigging or white card are for jobs building mines. Thats a nice truck in your picture so i am thinking that all you do is drive out to a coal mine to drop things off. You really shouldn't commont on what you have no idea about. This is a real course that teachs you about Hardrock mining not coal mining and for your information it is only coal that is going through a down turn at the momment just have a look at seek for all the hardrock mining jobs.

        • IVI on 06/12/2012 - 18:51

          He's got one point there… online or face-to-face… these days a Australian trainer needs to be an "RTO" =

          • Registered Training Organisation

          I think he's asking for your RTO number…

        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 18:55
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          An no, I split my time between sites, that photo is an old photo.

          Once again I ask you to provide your accreditation number and work cover accreditation number.

          And is shows you that you are a sham, rigging and skidsteer are both qualifications are used in every single operating site in Australia.

        • IVI on 06/12/2012 - 18:59

          Good to hear about Coal dying…

          Folks in the know looking -far- beyond the present) are expecting THORIUM to take the place of Uranium in the future.

          Safer nuclear power plants (than, eg, fast breeder ones, like Fukushima, in Japan) -will- be "LFTRs" =

          • Liquid Fluoride THORIUM Reactors

          For a quick intro to Thorium & LFTR's, see:

          There's a reason BHP Billiton decided -not- to expand its Roxby Downs -uranium- mine, & I'd say it's the -quick- pace of -growth- in interest in Thorium & LFTRs.

          For details, -search- YouTube.com for:

          • "Thorium Remix"

          Hey, we need -some- nukes to power our (coming) 100% Electric Vehicles… Coal is useless… IMO.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 19:01
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          You don't have to be an RTO if you are industry reconised. What does industry reconised mean? It means that the companies in this area have looked at the course and decided to hire people that have done our full course. There is nothing else like this in Australia and please don't let the RTO's rip you of with the S11 mining course as this is only for coal and only applies in QLD. Just call any mine in WA, NT or SA and see what they say when you tell them you have done your S11, this is when they will laugh at you.

        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 19:02
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          If you rang any site direct they will point you to either their head office or to recruitment companies.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 19:07
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          So what do you do on the mine because as said before I am a ticketed WA shift boss (you need to look it up) and I'm telling you here and now that you don't need either of those things to be a Hardrock miner, you may well need then for coal but like I said before the coal industry is going through a down turn and the only place they are taking on entry level people is in hardrock mines.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 19:12
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          Olympic dam is not on hold the underground is still going strong they only postponed the open cut. The state goverement has given them a time extenion on the surface side of the progect.

        • Zarcady on 06/12/2012 - 19:15
          +1

          As a second year Geologist, on track to graduating next year, I was wondering if the stories about the slowing industry true? if so, to what extent?
          I understand that the mining industry goes through cycles where it slows down periodically before growing again but I was wondering how the job prospects are looking for geologists? is there a shortage or are they not as needed as before?
          cheers!
          (sorry I asked this above)

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 19:18
          +1

          Make sure you go into the hardrock side of things and you will be right, have a look at seek and type in Hardrock miner underground and lots of geo jobs come up

      • andy19363 on 06/12/2012 - 19:09

        Pretty much, any mine will laugh at you for doing something like this.

        Are you telling us that it's not worth the money they are asking?

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 19:13

          If you are talking about the S11 Andy then yes it is a waste of your time and money unless you have a job lined up in a QLD coal mine.

        • andy19363 on 06/12/2012 - 20:55

          no…. was asking Copie if he/she felt this was not worth the money you are asking for this course….

        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 21:01
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          Not worth it at all no. If your dead serious about working in mining your best off starting by jumping one of the couple of mining forums and having a good read of what others are saying about working in the industry. Next is work out what tickets you require (front loader, skid and excavator are a good start) then start by talking to recruiters for anything on site that you can get your hands on, once you have 12 months on site you can pretty much write your own ticket then.

        • andy19363 on 06/12/2012 - 21:13
          +1

          Not worth it at all no

          So it's not worth free??
          wow…

        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 21:14
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          Well, like all other of these 'courses' they will offer must have courses to which they then rail you from your hard earned. They are offering g 9-12 hours for 99 bucks, if the course was an actual relevant training course your looking at significantly more cost wise.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 21:21
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          So it's free and not worth the money? Andy if you follow Copie advice you will still be looking for a job in 2 years time. This is the problem everyone is an arm chair expert with no real mining experience. All I can say is do the course and make up your own mind.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 21:36

          What do you do on your mines Copie because it sounds like you are a want to be not a miner.

        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 21:45
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          Well if your a cleanskin with no relevant trade or experience its always going to be difficult to break into the industry, even with this so called course. And with all of the resource sector slowing down this is even more evident.

          End of the day you won't have it handed to you via a silver platter, not without connections or experience at least.

          And so called companies such as yourself give people the impression that everything is all laid out nice and neat and they can just waltz in with no trades and earn huge money, which simply is not the case.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 22:09

          Again the down turn is only in coal, we have just posted entry level truck drivers roles on our facebook page for barrick. What do you do at the mines you work at? Are you a worker or a squeezer?

        • MATTDAMON on 06/12/2012 - 22:55
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          Ah no, iron is down as well due to over supply, gold, gas, uranium are still pretty strong.

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 23:06

          So what do you do on site Copie?

  • Merlict on 06/12/2012 - 16:30
    +5

    Damn, I thought this was going to be a Minecraft tut

  • nimbin2k on 06/12/2012 - 16:32

    Error on submitting enquiry form: "Your submissions contained bad data. Please click here and try again."

    • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 16:40
      +2

      Just tryed it then don't forget to click on the promotional offers button and this will take you to the page to put your detials in :)

      • nimbin2k on 06/12/2012 - 16:45

        I just tried it again - Click the link above, scroll to the bottom fo the page and click they big grey promotional offers button, enter details in all fields, click submit = error

        EDIT: Seems firefox not supported as it works in IE

        • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 17:15
          +1

          We have had about 10 come through all ready if it's not working that way can you please send your details to [email protected] and the girls in the office will send out a product key to you so you can start the course.

        • IVI on 06/12/2012 - 18:14

          Looking at this OzB web page, I see that over 140 folks have clicked through to your web site…

          So, you may well be -missing- LOTS of interested prospects…

          The "info@…" eMail-address might help some
          …ie, IF they come back to the OzB page & see it.

  • cvas on 06/12/2012 - 17:14
    +5

    Yeh I think I might have a dig

    • SirNed on 06/12/2012 - 17:25
      +2

      Keep that up and you will have bucket loads

  • cvas on 06/12/2012 - 17:45
    +4

    ore not?

    • [Deactivated] on 06/12/2012 - 17:48
      +3

      these delightful puns are having a growing effect on mineshaft

      • PorkHunt on 06/12/2012 - 18:58
        +1

        wow for a sec I thought you said your shaft.

  • cureforanitch on 06/12/2012 - 21:19

    I have a masters in civil engineering and 5 years post grad experience in design and construction of hard rock and soft ground shaft sinking and tunneling on civil projects. Is it worth doing this course?

    • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 21:22

      It's up to you it doesn't cost anything only your time.

  • IVI on 06/12/2012 - 21:31

    There's a 14 min YouTube video on a larger minging "village" in WA:

    (Search YouTube for: "The life on a mining village in Western Australia"
    I think it's made by a Swiss or Austrian guy, working there & travelling)

    The food looks terrific! :-)

    (Which one? Anyone recognise it, from the video?)

    • cvas on 07/12/2012 - 01:08

      Is the village full of mingas?

  • ozy on 06/12/2012 - 23:22

    So how do i apply the code? I only see paypal..
    And BTW seriously stop fighting the lot of you.
    If you make good money, or help people make good money then stop talking rubbish and get me and the thousands of Ozbargainers jobs so I can afford to buy New Deals that are posted every 5mins on this site.
    Ps this Course seems like it'll go nowhere fast but hey i'm unemployed, bord and need a freebie that will last 12hrs longer than my free undies I got today from Ozsale.

    • AssociatedUnderground training @ undergroundtraining.com.au on 06/12/2012 - 23:53

      Hi ozy just click on the Promotional offers button then leave your details and we will send you a product key.

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