It was a big day for the North West mining industry at Buchanan Park on Friday.
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The day started with a WIMARQ (Women In Mining And Resources Qld) networking breakfast and that was followed by the annual AusIMM North West Qld branch annual conference.
The breakfast heard first hand accounts from women in the local industry including Lucy Barrie who has spent three years with Glencore and MMG's traineeship coordinator Jody Seymour.
WIMARQ North West Qld branch president Tanya Cambetis said they were having a careers breakfast in conjunction with the AusIMM conference.
"As well as a breakfast, we've engage a few of the universities in town to talk to the schoolkids about different career pathway," Ms Cambetis said.
"We've got kids coming up to the end of grade 12 looking at what might be next so they see presentations to encourage those pathways."
Ms Cambetis said the session was also aimed at those already in the industry that might be looking for a change.
"They might be wanting to do a master's.in business or want to go from engineering into something else," she said.
Universities represented were JCU, CQU and University of Queensland.
UQ's Neville Plint, the director of the university's Sustainable Minerals Institute, was also the keynote speaker at the AusIMM conference that followed, speaking about the benefits of 50 years of successful collaboration between industry and academia at Mount Isa, a relevant topic given the push for a regional uni presence in Mount Isa.
The conference was followed by networking drinks with a mining ball that evening at the Civic Centre.
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