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A ROADMAP FOR MINERALS PROCESSING EDUCATION

Projected Supply and Demand of Graduates:
Employability

Over the last four years the competences committee of the Mining Council
(it is an association of the large mining producers), through the Fundación
Chile, has prepared the study “Labor Force of Large Scale Mining in
Chile” (“Fuerza Laboral de la Gran Minería Chilena”) in its different annual
versions (Centro de Innovación en Capital Humano para el Consejo Minero,
2011) (Centro de Innovación en Capital Humano para el Consejo Minero,
2012) (Centro de Innovación en Capital Humano para el Consejo Minero,
2013) (Centro de Innovación en Capital Humano para el Consejo Minero,
2014). This document reports on the specialists that will be required in
the projected next ten years in the different specialization areas of mining
and on the projected offerings, according to that time’s training offers.
The study, updated with 2014 data, gives the projected total demand
for mining engineers in Large Scale Mining, both by mining companies
and by suppliers, in their different roles such as extraction professionals,
engineers specialized in extraction, extraction supervisors, and processing
supervisors. This projection is made taking into account both the projects
on file for future development as well as the economic perspectives of
future demand for commodities.

On the other hand, according to Table 3, which shows dropouts (2014) from
the first year of a career and taking into account the graduation rate of
students six years later, we can make a projection of the potential graduates
who will get their degrees in the 2014-2023 period, assuming that the
retention rate is increasing and the actual duration of the careers is getting
shorter due to the current (and future) requirements for accreditation of
the careers by the Ministry of Education. In this way, different retention
scenarios are projected in the careers (offers of engineers) with 30%, 40%,
50% and 60% since 2014, and the demand for mining engineers in Large
Scale Mining, and this is reflected in Figure 2. To this end it has been
assumed that the number of registrations remains constant (the same
figure as in 2014) over the next ten years and that no campuses, careers or
universities are closing.

Analysis of Labuor Sustainability for 105
Mining Engineers in Chile