11-24-2008, 04:41 PM
$tevie wrote:
At underground coal mines, comparable people earn about a dollar to $2 an hour less. For example the average hourly rate in 2007 for underground coal mines: electrician=$23; mechanic=$23; welder=$22; helper=$21; and laborer=$21. Maybe the average is pulled down by these folk whom you do not find at surface mines: UG driller/shooter=$22; roof bolter=$23; UG loading machine operator=$22. Seems everybody tends to a wage of about $22 an hour.
http://technology.infomine.com/articles/....mine.aspx
You couldn't get me UNDERGROUND to do any of those jobs at ANY price. Coal miners are the toughest SOBs on the planet imo. I don't mind hard work, but I openly admit that I couldn't hack it down there. I'd have a panic attack from being confined underground and have to be dragged out.