Definition:
Mining and quarrying labourers perform routine tasks in mining and quarrying operations.
Tasks include:
(a) assisting miners and quarriers in maintaining machinery, equipment, and mine and quarry installations;
(b) assembling and dismantling mining equipment;
(c) removing tunnel supports from disused workings in mines and quarries;
(d) removing dangerous projections from mine and quarry workings;
(e) removing waste and serviceable materials and equipment from work areas after extraction activities have been completed, and clearing rock and mineral spills;
(f) cleaning machinery, equipment, tools, roadways and haulage tracks;
(g) sorting, loading, unloading, stacking and storing tools, materials and supplies used by other mine workers.
Job Description: 1) Tends machine that faces and grinds specified radii on abrasives: Sets machine guides to regulate angle of feed of abrasive to grinder. 2) Places abrasive in fixture and manually feeds abrasive to grinding wheel, or starts machine that automatically feeds abrasive against grinder. 3) Inspects abrasives for conformance to specifications, using fixed […]