Due to geographical location, Australia's economy and trading are closely related to Asia. With China's increasing demand on resources and energy and Japan and Korea's steady imports in these fields, Australia's mining industry is experiencing a so called boom' period. Traditionally, engineers or skilled workers from South Africa, Britian or other parts of Europe moved to Australia for its mining industry. Now, more students from Asia are starting to choose mining engineering (similar choices include mining geology, metallurgy, geotechnical engineering and mining surveying) and expect to work in these fields._x000D_
How does Australia's mining industry face such a situation? What kinds of challenges and opportunities do the mining industry and universities face? How do mining companies utilise these human resources? This paper concludes with an analysis of all these questions at an industrial level and some personal deduction as to the preferred course for international students._x000D_
FORMAL CITATION:Guan, Y, 2005. Wind from Asia - Asian students' involvement in Australia's mining industry, in Proceedings New Leaders' 2005, pp 47-50 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).