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A ROADMAP FOR MINERALS PROCESSING EDUCATION
Analysis of Labuor Sustainability for Mining
Engineers in Chile

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*JUAN PABLO HURTADO , JUAN PABLO VARGAS NORAMBUENA ,
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ANDRÉS SÁNCHEZ , PAMELA JARA AND SEBASTIÁN PÉREZ
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1 Mining Engineering Department Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Santiago, Chile

Abstract

In Chile there have been universities that have trained thousands of
mining engineers over the country’s history for decades. Since 2010
multiple academic projects were generated around the career of Mining
Engineering, based on the large investments and high demand for
qualified jobs that were projected by government agencies for the 2010 –
2025 period. Based on this, public and private universities and professional
institutes started careers linked to mining, encouraged by the media,
which wrote in their main pages about the large amounts of money
that mining professionals were earning, higher than those of any other
professionals in the country. Since then, academic offerings have increased
in an overwhelming and uncontrolled manner. However, the projections on
labor demand in relation to the professional mining engineering careers
did not go as predicted. This paper reviews the traditional training that the
profession has given, showing the current academic offerings in 2015, the
projections for graduates up to 2023, and the job offers according to the
forecasts of national and international economies. Then the supply and
demand are projected jointly to show the gap that there will be between
both. All this puts in evidence a discouraging panorama for the graduates
from the different universities and professional institutes due to the huge
oversupply that is foreseen.

Analysis of Labuor Sustainability for 99
Mining Engineers in Chile