Re: Who works in the mines and what doing
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Somewhere here earlier said that some people can just have a mining job just fall into there lap, well thats exactly what happened to me.
After finishing school and turning 18 I applied at a recruitment company offering entry level jobs (including dump truck operators) and ended up getting a job with the drill & blast department as a blast tech with no experience necessary and all generics paid for by the company.
I am lucky that my job is in Mt Isa so it is literally a 2 minute drive to work everyday. I work in an open cut silver/zinc/lead mine, only work day shifts on a 4/4 roster.
For the first 6 months as i was working basically as a contractor i was only on a flat 27 an hour with no holiday or sick pay but am now signed on to xstrata on 80g a year and also have a loader ticket and am thinking of doing a shotfirers course.
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