Imagine being offered your choice of several jobs anywhere in the world. Imagine making great wages and enjoying an above-average lifestyle.

Today’s mining has a safety record that is above the average of all other industrial activities. Mining has evolved into a safe, efficient, and high-tech industry.

The industry employs highly skilled tradespersons, technicians, technologists, and engineers. Miners work with equipment that costs millions of dollars, including radio remote scoop trams and electric hydraulic drills. Extensive training is required to work with this equipment.

Metals and minerals are the raw materials for thousands of products used every day and society will always need mining and mining-related industries.

Features and Highlights

• Mining Engineering Technician is now available through distance education with a field school component. For more details, call the program coordinator at 705-672-3376 Ext. 8829 or email hamiltonp@northern.on.ca.
• The Haileybury School of Mines is a founding member of the Federated School of Mines whose goal is to attract people to the North, strengthen communities through access to education and training, encourage learners to stay in Northern Ontario, and assist industry in meeting its educational needs.
• The Haileybury School of Mines has been training mining professionals for over 90 years. HSM graduates are working around the world today.
• The Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) conditionally recognizes the Mining Engineering Technician program as meeting the academic requirements for certification.