Mining and quarrying labourers perform routine tasks in mining and quarrying operations.
Skill level:
Unskilled
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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Mining and quarrying labourers - from $1,828 to $4,462 per month - 2024.
- A Mining and quarrying labourers typically earns between $1,828 and $3,241 gross per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between $1,922 and $3,603 per month for a working week of 40 hours.
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Tasks and duties
- Assisting miners and quarriers in maintaining machinery, equipment, and mine and quarry installations
- Assembling and dismantling mining equipment
- Removing tunnel supports from disused workings in mines and quarries
- Removing dangerous projections from mine and quarry workings
- Removing waste and serviceable materials and equipment from work areas after extraction activities have been completed, and clearing rock and mineral spills
- Cleaning machinery, equipment, tools, roadways and haulage tracks
- Sorting, loading, unloading, stacking and storing tools, materials and supplies used by other mine workers
