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The Asia Pacific Downunder Conference in Perth today was told that OceanaGold will utilise a training programme for its growing workforce at the Didipio copper-gold mine in the Philippines for a dual purpose - to train a new workforce and fill holes in its workforce in NZ.

OceanaGold’s Vice President NZ Operations, John Kinyon, told Mineweb at the Perth conference that the company, like Newmont Waihi at Waihi on the North Island, was experiencing the same shortage of professional and skilled people. This, he said, had become a broad problem for the global mining sector.

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