A website targeting to attract workers to Australia's mining industry has been launched as the promise of making at least 750,000 new jobs in the next 20 years will follow Australia's metals and minerals boom.

The website http://www.miningoilandgasjobs.com/ was activated by employer lobby group Australian Mines and Metals Association (AMMA) to connect Australians with job opportunities parallel to the industry's the mining boom.

Incidentally, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in today's jobs forum in Canberra said Government will not solve the current skills shortage problem in the mining industry with immigration solutions, not until Australians are willing to be trained and relocated to supply the employment demand in the metals and minerals sector.

"We don't want to leave a kid in Kwinana in Western Australia on the unemployment queue without skills while the people who operate big mines in the north-west of the state say can you import a plumber or a cook or an electrician for me," ABC news quoted Ms. Gillard as telling to Radio National.

"I want that kid to get that opportunity."

Workers, if careful with their hard-earned money, can get rich working for the mines. A skilled boilermaker can earn more than $300,000 a year, while an 18-year-old driving trucks can earn $150,000 a year.

AMMA said the website http://www.miningoilandgasjobs.com/ was developed following a report from the National Resource Sector Employment Taskforce (NRSET) that underlined how the skills shortage will greatly affect the mining sector unless government and industry groups combine forces to address the problem. The employer group quoted a report from the ANZ Bank-Port Jackson Partners that said at least 750,000 jobs are secured in the next 20 years following Australia's metals and minerals boom.

AMMA said employers had started posting job vacancies in the site. Previously employed workers who lost their jobs in other sectors are the ones most actively perusing the site, AMMA added.

http://www.miningoilandgasjobs.com/ provides information about employment, career planning, migration, and training and development in the resources sector.