Back to the Future: A Globally Connected Mining School for the 21 st Century. Steve Hall AusIMM New Leaders Conference Kalgoorlie March 2015

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1 Back to the Future: A Globally Connected Mining School for the 21 st Century Steve Hall AusIMM New Leaders Conference Kalgoorlie March 2015

2 Leadership in three words! P E I. Surely there is a better acronym?

3 The Leadership PIE P I. E

4 A walk through the title Back to the future (Innovation and Skill Shortages) Globally Connected (How, Who and Why?) Mining School (Relevant to Systems Thinking and building resilience?) For the 21 st Century (Well, everyone else wants one!)

5 Back to the Future Innovative

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8 Geoffery Blainey The Rush That Never Ended p. 201 In laboratories and assay offices on the mines (of Kalgoorlie Boulder) young men from Australian Schools of Mines pottered late at night, eager to work for companies that scorned no new idea 19 th Century

9 Geoffery Blainey The Rush That Never Ended p. 206 Nothing was more vital in the long term for Western Australian gold mines than the rise of sound honest management, for it not only protected the investor but enhanced the value of the mine. Over 600 Eastern Goldfields based mining companies were floated in 1896!!!

10 Western Australian School of Mines Kalgoorlie School of Mines differentiated it from one at Coolgardie that opened in 1902 (just the 20 th Century) Such an institution, scientifically conducted, and provided with the means for the execution of necessary practical experiments, would be capable of devoting its whole attention to the most urgent questions concerning the goldmining industry, and to their satisfactory solution. WA Government, 1894

11 WA School of Mines 21st Century multi campus operation Curtin University

12 Skill shortage then and It is only a ceasefire the war for talent will continue EY, The aging workforce poses a strong risk to mining leadership 2. Globalization adds real complexity to how companies monitor and manage their talent position 3. Greater collaboration and fewer silos 4. Disruptive technology is challenging the skill mix

13 Globally connected Kalgoorlie, 1915, and in Gallipoli

14 Water Supply

15 Mephan Ferguson and Charles Yelverton O Connor Ferguson, a Melbourne agricultural engineer patented a rivet less locking bar in 1897; Used to join rolled flat sheet steel imported from Germany and USA in the construction of the over 500 km Goldfields pipeline O Connor, an Irish born Engineer, that designed and built (most of) the Perth Kalgoorlie pipeline Commissioned 1896; Completed 1903

16 Closure plan of the SuperPit from the 1980s It will fill with water and people can go sailing on the pit lake Alan Bond Unfortunately the water table in Kalgoorlie might allow the bottom 50 metres or so to fill with water that is six times the salinity of seawater So yes, the community is interested in innovative ideas and now legislation requires a closure plan

17 Appreciate the site as an Asset Closed mining operations are now being considered for renewable energy projects (power transmission a two way street ) time for innovative thinking and research? Does it look like a mine?

18 Back to the Future? Transmission line back to Perth? Solar treatment of saline mine and and ground waters Also opportunities for salt recovery Eutectic crystallization Salts used in metal extraction? In summary, innovation and process engineering skills products and regional jobs

19 WA School of Mines involvement in Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) CRC Spatial Information CRC Deep Exploration Technology CRC CO2 CRC Mining CRC Optimising Resource Extraction (?)

20 Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) CRC Mining Federal Government funding ended in 2014, is continuing via industry membership funding focussing on fundamental research.

21 Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) WASM is involved through our Department of Exploration Geophysics currently staff are in Victoria monitoring the Otway Project (over 65,000 tonnes of CO2 injected into geological structures)

22 Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs) Some of the members: Looks like a team shirt? Globally connected?

23 Why a Mining School? To offer integrated specialist courses in mining, metallurgy and geology To provide a critical mass of staff and students and exposure to hands on learning experiences AusIMM, 2011, Submission to the Higher Education Funding Review

24 MTEC Higher Education Partners Minerals Geoscience Mining Engineering Metallurgy University of Tasmania The University of New South Wales The University of Queensland The University of Western Australia The University of Queensland Curtin University (WA School of Mines) James Cook University Curtin University (WASchool of Mines) Murdoch University The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide The University of Melbourne Monash University The Australian National University Curtin University (WA School of Mines) 64% 4-year trained Geologists 85% 4 year trained Mining Engineers 100% 4-year trained Metallurgists

25 Well being Health Wealth Experience Resilience is the result of individuals being able to interact with their environments and processes that either promote well being or protect them against the overwhelming influence of risk factors

26 Building resilience balanced education Formal Informal Experiential Resilience is an individual's ability to generate biological, psychological and social factors to resist, adapt and strengthen itself, when faced with an environment of risk, generating individual, social and moral success. Oscar Chapital C. (2011)

27 WA School of Mines Where we eat, breath and sleep mining Lectures Exams AusIMM WA Mining Club Practical External Speakers Simulators Pilot Plants Field Visits Work Student Mining Games Charity Work / Volunteering Sport

28 Mining Schools in New Zealand Thames School of Mines opened in 1886 as did Reefton. These are examples of about 30 such schools set up to stimulate economic growth in New Zealand.

29 Mining Schools in New Zealand Otago SoM (1878) transferred to University of Auckland in BUT can no longer study mining engineering at degree level in New Zealand!

30 Pike River Disaster

31 Pike River Royal Commission New Zealand has a poor overall health and safety record compared with other advanced countries. In relation to underground coal mining New Zealand has had a tragedy every generation or so, after the lessons of previous tragedies have been forgotten. This time the lessons must be remembered.

32 Pike River Royal Commission Legislative, structural and attitudinal change is needed if future tragedies are to be avoided. Government, industry and workers need to work together. That would be the best way to show respect for the 29 men who never returned home on 19 November 2010, and for their loved ones who continue to suffer.

33 Meet Frank Barney Allen Inaugural Director Western Australian School of Mines (1903) Formerly Director of the Thames School of Mines, NZ So no we cannot stop robbing from each other! We always have! We all want experience and quality.

34 Everyone wants one! Currently we are assisting with mining school initiatives in Saudi Arabia, Rwanda, Malawi and Kenya Partnerships (joint Undergraduate, Master and PhD) with South Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, China all coming to Kalgoorlie So nothing much has changed, the world is still coming to Kalgoorlie thank you for coming and listening

35 Leadership in three words! PASSION INTEGRITY ENERGY Or one PIE