Focus on Mining Camp
Thanks to the all the sponsors of the Focus on Mining Camp 2011 for making last year's event a great success.
Do you want to feel the rumble of dump trucks and a distant explosion, inspect an operational mine site, experience staying overnight at a mine camp, pan for gold, rub shoulders with industry professionals and learn about the role of science and mathematics in the mining industry!? If this sounds like the adventure you're looking for, then come and join us for five days as we experience what the mining industry in WA is really like on a Focus on Mining camp!
WASM will be running a Focus on Mining camp between 9 - 13 July 2012, aimed at Year 12 Science and Mathematics WACE students who are considering studying mining-related courses at university, and are interested in working in the mining industry.
The tour will commence at Curtin University in Bentley and progress to Curtin's Kalgoorlie campus. This all-expenses-paid experience introduces participants to the mining industry and what it has to offer. During the camp, students' will tour operational mine sites, participate in hands-on workshops on campus, and meet lecturers, students and mining industry leaders.
In 2011 sites visited included Catalpa's Edna May Gold Project, KCGM's Superpit, Independence Group's Lightning Nickel Mine, Silverlake's Daisy Milano Gold Mine and the Western Australian School of mines in Kalgoorlie.
