Speaking of mining engineers, I work with a couple of them. I work for a large cement manufacturing company who employs a lot of them. We have a large open pit mine here at my location in middle Georgia.
Anyone can have a mod Mustang made to go fast; but the people who actually are interested in doing the work themselves and learning from what they do are the people I find most interesting and learn the most from.
Sorry if I strayed from the topc.