Emerging Mining Workforce Trends

Emerging Trends in the U.S. Mining Industry
This report examines how U.S. mining labor demands will be met over the next 20 years and how mine labor has changed over time to produce the current workforce and to project how it will change over the next twenty years. This study first considers some of the factors that are currently driving the mining business in the U.S. as well as issues that are anticipated to drive the business in the near future. It then looks at the workforce by mining sector to understand how labor is divided up and suggests reasons why the employment estimates vary depending on what data source is used. Compensation, workforce age, retirement rate, skill level, retention, and education issues also are evaluated. Health and safety is addressed last as many of the preceding topics have an impact on this subject. The Exhibit section contains the logic and calculations for data source assessments, calculation of mining's contribution to the U.S. economy, and the factors affecting the aging of the labor workforce.
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