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🇬🇧 UKSOC 8132· Process, Plant, Machine and Construction Operatives

Mining and quarry workers and related operatives

Quarry workers erect supports in underground workings, set and detonate explosives to loosen rocks and set up and operate drilling equipment to extract coal and other minerals from the ground, and operate machinery to wash, crush or separate stone and ores.

Coal minerDerrickman (oil wells)Diamond driller (well sinking)Plant operator (quarry)Quarry operative
£38,301
median salary
11,400
currently employed
6,621
projected 2035
Stable
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