[iancmceachern]

Not really, we actually train many of the world's mining and petroleum experts. Many of the people around the world that do this stuff were trained at the various "A&M" or "...School of Mines".

The issue is that much of the work ends up being overseas or all over the world. If you go to any mine site in the world, I guarantee you will find American trained Mining/Geophysics/etc engineers

Source - I went to the Colorado School of Mines and most of my friends and acquaintances from school work in those 2 industries.

[defrost]

Sure .. alongside Scots, Russians, South Africans, Australians, Norwegians, and all the other non US mining engineers.

The Canadian TSX is the global centre for listed public mining, Anglo-Australian mining companies dominate there.

No one is going to deny the Colorado School of mines their little corner of the pie but they haven't hit "much of" in a clear majority sense by a long shot.

[iancmceachern]

Agreed. I was never trying to say it's the whole pie. I'm replying to a parent comment that implies the US has a big deficit in this kind of skill and training, which isn't accurate.