T-shaped people have both a deep understanding of their core profession / specialisation areas and a broad appreciation of the lateral topics and issues that relate to the upstream and downstream interactions of their roles and responsibilities. In geoscience T-shaped people are professionals who have understanding that spans lateral disciplines so their core expertise can be used to optimise value chain outcomes from exploration to final market. Development of these professional skills is important, particularly early career exposure to interdisciplinary interaction that has the potential to be of significant benefit building the foundational understanding to underpin a productive career. An on-line survey was conducted to investigate the interaction of geoscientists with lateral disciplines during the first five years of their career experience. The 418 respondents to the survey spanned a 60-year window of professional experience with a high proportion of respondents for the last 45 years. The survey is considered to be a reasonably representative cross section of industry geoscience professionals. The data collected indicates that in general early career interdisciplinary interactions with lateral professions in the mining value chain have not significantly increased over the decades spanned by the survey. This is despite significantly increased participation in employer graduate programs over those years. Interactions continue to occur at around the same rates as over the last 25 years. This represents a significant opportunity to the industry in professional development. Addressing it will require focussed and sustained attention from the minerals sector at a high level, from early career professionals themselves and from their supporting management. CITATION: Sims, D, Pocoe, J and Puha, L, 2019. Are we getting enough T into our geoscientists?, in Proceedings Mining Geology 2019, pp 379391 (The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne).