President, ROR Mine Consulting
Member of the Natural Resources Council
Richard Rouse is the President of ROR Mine Consulting, a firm providing consulting services to mines and large consulting firms on mining projects, new mine supply companies, and foreign companies entering the US mining products market. Mr. Rouse has over 40 years of experience in all aspects of the mining industry, primarily focused on the coal industry. He has operated both surface and underground mines, as well as selected and authorized major mining equipment purchases. Prior, Mr. Rouse was President of M.J. Mining, a contract miner for underground mines; President of Kenerco Mining; and Vice President of Underground Operations for Freeman United Coal Mining Company. He also worked for Consolidation Coal Company for seventeen years serving as a Mine Engineer, Mine Superintendent, General Superintendent, Vice President, General Manager and Division President. (This is me - Update Profile)
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MINING WORKER SHORTAGE AT ALL LEVELS
May 15, 2008
U.S. energy industry is hampered by labor shortage | www.iht.com
During the early 1970's the coal industry started to expand and found that not only was there a shortage of engineers and technical people but there were no available machine operators, maintenance people or labors. The entire work force was starting to reach retirement age and the industry had very little growth during the prior twenty five years. I spent several years hiring many totally inexperienced people and teach them to become coal miners. We held many training courses to train our maintenance people both in the class room and with hands on work in the mines working on equipment with supervisors explaining the " how to " part of the work they were learning to do. After going through a turn over rate of twenty to thirty percent for a four year period we finally had a fairly competent work force.
| Study Group Name | No. Members |
|---|---|
| Experts in the Leisure & Lodging Council | 4887 |
| Experts in the Automotive Council | 3422 |
| Mining Experts | 1474 |
| Rubber Experts | 181 |
| Mining Equipment Experts | 148 |
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