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Apparently the mining industry will be the place to get a job soon...

TallBill

TallBill

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Snippets from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining

Employment in the mining industry offers highly competitive wages and benefits, especially in rural or remote areas. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), wages for coal miners are 30% higher than the wage earned by the average American. Employees possessing at least a bachelor's degree in mining or geological engineering can earn a median pay of over $80,000 annually.

The mining industry has an experienced but aging workforce with a mean average age of 50 years and median of 46 years. Indeed, while the industry will require new employees to meet future demand, the largest dilemma currently facing mine operators is finding employees to fill vacancies left by a generation of miners, mine engineers, senior managers, technical experts and others who are set to retire between 2005 and 2015. However, the industry is struggling to meet that demand due to current low enrollment levels in mining education programs at American colleges and universities.
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Looks like a nice field to get into, probably not as a miner, but as a scientist or engineer.
 
Originally posted by: Xcobra
at the risk of losing your life, not surprising. not gonna see me there tho
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I'd be willing to bet that your risk of long term negative health effects are much greater then your risk of dying in an accident.
 
Lots of job openings due to mass retirements for geologists in the petroleum industry too. I studied geology, but I'm not terribly interested in mining or petroleum. Oh well...
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: Xcobra
at the risk of losing your life, not surprising. not gonna see me there tho
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I'd be willing to bet that your risk of long term negative health effects are much greater then your risk of dying in an accident.
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Perhaps, but im NOT dying in a mine or of any long-term pulmonary disease.
 
at the risk of losing your life, not surprising. not gonna see me there tho
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OMG when did the forums become a place for sissy men to hang out, dam and this is not just realted to this thread but many of the replies in OT seem to be posted by guys who never take risk, guys who watch others living life, the type of guys who make it to 25 never having a broken bone.

Dam take a chance some time and live a little.
 
My friend has knows a geology major who works in the middle east for a oil company and makes 1 mil a year. No kidding.
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: Xcobra
at the risk of losing your life, not surprising. not gonna see me there tho
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I'd be willing to bet that your risk of long term negative health effects are much greater then your risk of dying in an accident.
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Oh yeah, that's much better. Where do I sign up? :roll:

Still not worth $80,000 IMO. Life insurance for miners must be astronomical.
 
Originally posted by: Xcobra
at the risk of losing your life, not surprising. not gonna see me there tho
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But perhaps if you're one of the managers life isn't so dangerous, it's just incredibly boring

No thanks on either account
 
Yeah, I'm a mechanical engineer, and I had a great contract for a while working at a cement factory in Ireland. I mean, it wasn't quite the same as coal/ore mining, but I've never seen a bigger hole in the ground than the limestone quarry adjacent to the cement plant. I'm actually kinda disappointed that I didn't get to stay longer, but the amount of money they gave me to come from the states and work was ridiculous compared to any other engineering job I've had before... and like that article said, everyone there was pretty ancient... it blew their mind that I knew how to use AutoCAD... haha
 
you know, this isn't the first time I've heard about mining being a lucrative field to get into. I suppose the mining engineers don't have much to worry about with regards to safety unless they're in the mines with the miners too. It'd be a good opportunity to get out of the city too if you're a nature boy wannabe. And as our use of easily reached oil reaches it's peak, the petroleum industry will need good engineers to figure out how to successfully get to the oil sands such as the stuff up in Canada and in North Dakota.

As a software developer I've thought a couple times about getting into the mining field. I did well in geology in college back before I gave up biology for computer science.
 
Originally posted by: AmigaMan
you know, this isn't the first time I've heard about mining being a lucrative field to get into. I suppose the mining engineers don't have much to worry about with regards to safety unless they're in the mines with the miners too. It'd be a good opportunity to get out of the city too if you're a nature boy wannabe. And as our use of easily reached oil reaches it's peak, the petroleum industry will need good engineers to figure out how to successfully get to the oil sands such as the stuff up in Canada and in North Dakota.

As a software developer I've thought a couple times about getting into the mining field. I did well in geology in college back before I gave up biology for computer science.
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I guarantee that there is a fairly lucrative field for comp science people within the geological world.
 
Originally posted by: Renob
at the risk of losing your life, not surprising. not gonna see me there tho
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OMG when did the forums become a place for sissy men to hang out, dam and this is not just realted to this thread but many of the replies in OT seem to be posted by guys who never take risk, guys who watch others living life, the type of guys who make it to 25 never having a broken bone.

Dam take a chance some time and live a little.
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The point is, he wants to live a lot. Mining is not a particularly safe profession and after the traumatic influences of things crushing you, you have a very real chance of dying of something else, like breathing in naughty gasses for a few decades, for example.

 
That number is no better then any other engineering degree, so I don't see where you are really gaining anything here?
 
Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: Xcobra
at the risk of losing your life, not surprising. not gonna see me there tho
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I'd be willing to bet that your risk of long term negative health effects are much greater then your risk of dying in an accident.
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Well daggnonit I'm on my way now that you cleared that up😛
 
Originally posted by: BrownTown
That number is no better then any other engineering degree, so I don't see where you are really gaining anything here?
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your gaining being able to live in non urban areas. 80k goes ALOT farther in these areas.
 
Originally posted by: Falloutboy
Originally posted by: BrownTown
That number is no better then any other engineering degree, so I don't see where you are really gaining anything here?
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your gaining being able to live in non urban areas. 80k goes ALOT farther in these areas.
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Very true. You can live well in those areas on a 35k a year salary. Also less risk in cutbacks or losing your job, and easier to get on board.
 
Originally posted by: Falloutboy
Originally posted by: BrownTown
That number is no better then any other engineering degree, so I don't see where you are really gaining anything here?
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your gaining being able to live in non urban areas. 80k goes ALOT farther in these areas.
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Well for one thing since when has an engineer had to work in a big city to make money? I make money just fine working at a nuclear plant and pretty much every single one of them is as far from a big city as they can get. Also, 80k might go far in the middle of nowhere, but living there even if you have money sorta sucks balls, for example there are probably like 10 college educated girls of my age within 20 miles of where I live and I don't know a single one of them, so my chances there sorta suck ass.
 
I have a friend who is in a Mining and Minerals Engineering Program. He has been working in a coal mine near Steamboat, CO the past couple of summers. Well, not working in the mine full time, more doing planning and the such. He seems to really enjoy getting dirty when he does go down.

Personally, I could never do that. I can pretty much work in any industry....
 
Yep. Several of my high school classmates actually went in to the mining industry after getting some kind of mining engineering degree from Virginia Tech. They are doing very well.
 
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