Mining and quarrying labourers

Mining and quarrying labourers perform routine tasks in mining and quarrying operations.

Job Definition

• 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