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71105 |
Miner, General | Extracts coal or other minerals, such as iron, copper, tin, lead, antimony, jet, gold, silver from underground or surface mines. |
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71110 |
Quarryman, General | Extracts granite, limestone, marble, sandstone, grift or other kinds of stone from quarry. |
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71120 |
Cutting-Machine Operator (Mine) | Sets and operates machine which cuts channels in mine workface. |
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71125 |
Mining-Machine Operator, Specialisation Unknown | Sets and operates machine which cuts channels in mine workface (7-11.20), machine which drills holes into mine or quarry workface (7-11.30), or continuous-mining machine (7-11.40). |
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71130 |
Drilling-Machine Operator (Mine and Quarry) | Sets and operates machine which drills holes into mine or quarry workface for blasting. |
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71140 |
Continuous Mining-Machine Operator | Operates self-propelled continuous-mining machine to mine coal underground. |
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71150 |
Shot-Firer (Mine and Quarry) | Determines positions and force of explosions required, and charges and sets off explosives to dislodge coal, ore, rock or other solid mineral from mine or quarry workface. |
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71160 |
Underground Timberman | Cuts, fits and installs wood or steel props, pillars and arches to support walls and roofs of mines and other underground workings. |
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71170 |
Sampler (Mine) | Collects small amounts of coal or ore from specified locations in mine for laboratory analysis. |
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71190 |
Other Miners and Quarrymen | This group includes miners and quarrymen not elsewhere classified, for example those who remove wood and steel supports from disused workings; direct high-pressure streams of water against gravel banks to force gravel into sluices from which metalliferous minerals are recovered; cut stone from quarry faces with power driven saws; split sample cores for mineral-bearing rock strata removed from diamond core drills for laboratory analysis; or extract chalk, clay, gravel or sand from open pits. |
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