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SMIC News Issue 61 - August 2020 including info on the 32nd AGM and 170th General Meeting, Upcoming Events, Industry Reports, Surveying Education Reports, Surveying & SIS Traineeships, and the SMIC Training & Scholarship Program.
SMIC News Issue 60 - April 2020 including info on the 169th General Meeting, Upcoming Events, Industry Reports, Surveying Education Reports, Surveying & SIS Traineeships, and the SMIC Training & Scholarship Program.
SMIC News Issue 59 - Feb 2020 including info on the 168th General Meeting, Upcoming Events, Industry Reports, Surveying Education Reports, Global Surveyors Day, Surveying & SIS Traineeships, and the SMIC Training & Scholarship Program.
The volume of tailings release due to dam failure has been trending upwards since the 1970s with quantities of material released reaching an average of over three million cubic meters per failure since 2010.
Garry MacPhail, Geospatial Executive Manager for Position Partners, reflects on technology evolution in the last two decades and its effect on the survey profession today and beyond.
According to Safe Work Australia, the mining industry has seen a 51% increase in the number of serious claims for disease and injury between 2000-01 and 2013-14. Proximity detection and collision awareness systems are the kind of safe guards that mine operators can implement to reduce accidents, keep track of machine movements and mitigate risk across the site.
AIMS has collaborated with Glencore to create a gender diversity scholarship in 2020 called the "Glencore-Tim Underhill Gender Diversity Scholarship in Mine Surveying". Both Glencore and AIMS recognise the benefits of increasing representation and retention of women in non-traditional roles in the mining and resource sector.
SMIC News Issue 58 including info on the 167th General Meeting, Upcoming Events, Industry Reports, Surveying Education Reports, Surveying & SIS Traineeships and the SMIC Training & Scholarship Program.
AIMS has extended its support for the "A Life Without Limits" program into WA through the WAIS (Western Australian Institution of Surveyors).
An AIMS representative has presented at New Zealand's Otago University in promoting the career opportunities as a mine surveyor.
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