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Carly Leonida reads Mary Juetten’s October 2025 article, in which she explores strategies, including succession planning, returnships and mentorships, to help mitigate the impacts of mining industry retirees.

The Intelligent Miner
The Intelligent Miner
Listen along: Holding back mining’s ‘grey tsunami’
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In this episode, learn about:

  • Why mining is facing a ‘grey tsunami’ of retirements, with a large share of the workforce set to exit within the next decade.
  • The risk this poses to operational stability and the loss of hard won institutional knowledge.
  • Solutions such as succession planning, returnships, mentorship programmes, and widening the talent pool.
  • Why urgent, people focused action is needed now to avoid a long term skills crisis.

Read the full article with hyperlinks to further reading.

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“Mining is the most basic of all human endeavours and yet we live in a world where people don’t know where things come from”

Robert Friedland

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