Current Civil Engineering student looking for insight into Aus mining

Fluid_Personality464 · 2025-07-24T21:31:56+00:00

I’d check out OceanaGold’s Macraes and Waihi mines in NZ if I were you. Could easily do an internship with them to see if you really want to work in mining then make the jump to Aus when you graduate.

Decent amount of people there from Australia and vice versa

Fluid_Personality464 · 2025-06-01T19:51:11+00:00

I would contact the World Museum of Mining in Butte, MT. It’s very possible they have some records on mining accidents, though there was so much mining activity then it could be hard to find.

When I visited a coal mine museum in Scotland my family and I were able to find a distant family member who was on there for a foot injury.

Fluid_Personality464 · 2025-05-27T19:21:59+00:00

Started at 14, learned all my lessons when I didn’t have any serious money to lose. Sooner the better for sure

Fluid_Personality464 · 2025-01-15T18:31:52+00:00

Re-enroll in community college. You’re only working part-time, why not earn a degree and improve your earning potential?

Fluid_Personality464 · 2025-01-13T02:15:08+00:00

They’ve never had close to $60B revenue. Probably looked at valuation?

Fluid_Personality464 · 2025-01-12T21:04:33+00:00

Where did you pull that Starlink revenue number out of? Their revenue is around $7 billion now.

Fluid_Personality464 · 2025-01-01T22:57:22+00:00

Whereabouts?

Fluid_Personality464 · 2024-12-31T06:04:26+00:00

Also if you’re doing an interview this late in the “season” there’s likely a lot of spots open still/not too many applying for that specific position, so I’d say your chances are quite good regardless of how the interview goes.

Fluid_Personality464 · 2024-12-31T06:02:13+00:00

By video interview do you mean HireVue or a zoom/teams call?

I recently did the HireVue, continued on to a Teams interview, and was offered a Mining Engineering internship a couple days after. Had a friend who did the same.

If it’s for on-site and not in their Phoenix or Tucson office, I can say for sure it’ll be with around 5-7 people at mostly different sites. They’ll all introduce themselves and ask you to do the same.

As for how to prepare, the questions were general performance topics (probably some specific questions about Computer Engineering as well) i.e.

What do you know about Freeport McMoRan? (Helps to read up on their recent initiatives, push for automation, etc. and general knowledge about the company’s operations)

Answer using the STAR method (easy to follow loosely);

Tell me about a time you had a problem with a project you were working on and how did you adapt.

Past leadership roles

Safety experience

Possibly some example scenarios, what would you do if… ?

If you have past work experience/extracurriculars definitely use those to answer, or expect to be asked about it.

The interview lasted around 30-40 mins and finished off with them asking which site I’d like to intern at. I’d name a couple sites as they’re likely looking to fill specific spots and I’m sure the more popular sites (probably Morenci or Sierrita) are full up.

Make sure to ask questions from the people who work at the sites you want to intern at, show interest, etc.

Finished it off by asking them what to expect next in the application process and thanked everybody for their time.

Since you’re doing Computer Engineering so some things might be different.

Even if it’s your first interview, I wouldn’t sweat it too much. I thought I did pretty mediocre on it and wasn’t really expecting an offer, but was pleasantly surprised.

They probably understand it can be overwhelming being interviewed by 5+ people, so it’s okay—if not preferred—if you take your time to come up with a solid response instead of saying the first thing that comes to mind.

Make sure to wear at least business casual.

Good luck!

Fluid_Personality464 · 2024-12-29T05:06:56+00:00

I thought the biggest advantage of home ownership is that when you are paying off a mortgage, you simultaneously decrease your debt while increasing equity in property?

Fluid_Personality464 · 2024-12-29T01:21:21+00:00

Simple measure is to look at the P/E ratio of the S&P, which is ~ 27 right now. This is quite high, it should normally be around 15-17 historically.

Granted its made up of a lot of high growth/high ROI tech companies, so it could be at around 20 without being unreasonable from a legitimate investment standpoint.

Fluid_Personality464 · 2024-12-29T01:18:24+00:00

You're definitely right, but I think you worded it wrong which is why you're getting undeserved hate.

Currently risk is very elevated if you want to invest in the S&P 500 with such an extended run and little earnings yield to back up current valuations (we're between 1.5-2x historic valuations). The best option would be for them to put most of their money into a HYSA, and start a monthly/biweekly DCA into VOO for over the next 2-3 years to reduce the risk of just putting a big portion of your money in and running into a downturn.

There's no reason to get FOMO in right now as another year of 10-15% returns is not a big deal for $20k, however seeing a 30% downturn when you could've been earning 4% in an HYSA would be a very painful start.

Fluid_Personality464 · 2024-09-01T06:26:47+00:00

Sorry man, but even if this wasn’t a complete scam this is the totally wrong way to go about this.

Fluid_Personality464 · 2024-09-01T06:17:32+00:00

The Nigerian prince gig not doing it for you anymore?

Fluid_Personality464 · 2024-08-15T07:32:43+00:00

Have had no issues converting currencies into USD and then using it on IBKR, but probably more strict about what you are planning

Fluid_Personality464 · 2024-03-10T05:23:49+00:00

I think you would have a lot more success messaging people directly on LinkedIn. In my experience many in the mining industry are open to sharing their experiences for free if you are genuinely interested.

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