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MINERALS INDUSTRY EDUCATION AND TRAINING II

professional networking sites such as LinkedIn (https://au.linkedin.com/) it
is possible to get some sense of the background and educational setting
of those who list mineralogy as one of their skills. Close to 28 000 of those
registered on LinkedIn listed mineralogy as one of their skills and Figure 1
shows the top 10 additional skills that were listed and the percentage of
respondents listing those skills. Unsurprisingly this highlights the strong
linkage between mineralogy and geology. The majority of respondents
work in mining companies (shown in Figure 2), with some portion also
from the service and technology sectors. In terms of their educational
background, of those who provided this information, the majority were
graduates of South African based universities followed by universities in
Canada and Australia (shown in Figure 3), again not surprising given the
global distribution of mineral resources.

Figure 1: Skills in addition to mineralogy that were listed on LinkedIn
(Top 10 responses)

Whata are they skilled at (n=27968)
Geology
Geological mapping
Mineral Exploration

Geochemistry
Structural Geology
Earth Science
Logging
Minerals
Sampling

Mining
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
% of dataset

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