Job duties

Here are some of the main activities and tasks that Mine labourers have to perform, and some of the physical demands they involve:

• Assist other mine workers in maintaining or constructing underground installations
• Clean underground rooms, roadways, working areas and mining equipment and conveyances using hand tools
• Load, move, sort and pile materials and supplies
• Clear spills of ore or coal using hand and power tools
• May cut core and prepare core sample boxes in support of mine exploration
• Assist other workers in prospecting for mineral deposits and perform various tasks related to general geophysical surveys.