PERMFILE69594

• Permit No: M1988112
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 2/23/1989
• Doc Name: MLRB Hearing
• From: MLRB
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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State or other states, we looked around to see what
we could do.
We worked with the State of
Colorado. We took applications. We talked to a lot
of people. We interviewed a lot of people, and we
wound up with a system where there's nine }young
people here that are getting vocational training
with the potential to be mechanics for us.
There's going to be other mechanics
that's in the area that we want to interview and
hire. We picked mechanics because that's a~n area --
that's a trade that takes longer to learn than some
other fields, and we knew that we had all winter
before we were going to be getting this project
together so we wanted to take advantage of that time.
Typically in years gone by we have
never done this. When we need mechanics, we go out
on the street. There's people always looking for
work. We have hired journeymen mechanics, and then
as the job went along we might hire some apprentices
and train them.
But here we're trying to get the
training in early on, and I think it's a very good
system for Battle Mountain Gold because I think we
have some good potential people coming up and it