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mokitaon Sep 24, 2012 4:12pm
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RE: Job promises inflated and current decline in d
RE: Job promises inflated and current decline in d Most unskilled jobs will pay mid $20's. Here are some average hourly wages by category in Canadian dollars at surface mines.
- Electrician = 34.10
- Mechanic = 33.80
- Drill Operator = 32.34
- Production Tuck Driver = 30.40
- Labourer = 25.45
- Electricians at underground mines average more, namely $36.43 an hour. Miners at underground mines got $31.02 an hour. And underground labourers got $24.84 an hour with a range varying from $18.25 to $34.87 an hour
depend on stable market demand not current market conditions that are leading to thousands of miners laid off and mine closures. Read CEO miner on laying off coal miners because of the drop in demand for metallurgical coal: Mine Manager Ron Thompson said in July that New Elk had an inventory of 70,000 tons of unsold coal.
"The global market in which metallurgical coal prices have decreased sharply over the last two quarters is incredibly challenging for coal companies at the present moment and is a direct reflection on excess inventories and current soft demand," Cline Mining CEO Ken Bates said Monday in a statement. Sept. 2012