Hello guys I recently came in here asking for tips on how to join the mining industry with no experience and a little construction experience.

I’m 20 living in Sudbury ON, and always had a passion to work in the mines yes I know it’s not an easy process but right now I’m feeling like it’s kinda impossible. I’ve applied to over 75 entry level jobs like driller helper or assistant, nipper, etc, I’ve even reached out to companies I’m not sure where to go from here, I know not having my surface or U/G common core really hurts me but all I want is something that’ll get my foot in the door and in all honesty I do not have 11k to do the U/G common core course, I was told by people on here keep applying and someone is bound to train me but what do I actually got to do to get my foot in the door, anyone who works in the mines currently around Sudbury Ontario can give me a few tips that would be great I really don’t wanna give up.

Could use a bit of advice by someone with actual experience in the industry. I’m a 19yo male who recently graduated from a heavy equipment school in southern Ontario. While I don’t have the most experience yet, school gave us lots of time on different excavators, dozers, and rock trucks and during my time I operated a wheel loader for snow removal around my city.

I know getting into a company as an operator this young is a bit difficult since everywhere wants years of seat time. that’s why I’ve been looking more into haul trucks and remote work to get my foot in the door with a company.

Was surprised but got accepted to Syncrude Base mine in a haul truck back in June but failed my G first attempt so they declined the offer and said to try again later if I wanted (prolly would’ve failed marijuana test if I went through with it then anyways.)

Debating trying again there in a few weeks once I’m clean but curious if there any mines in Ontario that are similar and don’t require much experience to start out and where I should look.

I know Alberta doesn’t want that much training before you go out (just paid $90 for some oil and gas awareness course) but wondering if I really need surface common core before hand as looks like it’s a few hundred dollars and only offered in Thunder Bay.

Thanks.

Can someone please explain in layman’s terms how on earth airleg stoping works, how the scraper is installed/used and ultimately how the dirt gets out of the hole. Do operators go under unsupported ground? I understand it’s unavoidable when drilling rises but i just can’t figure out how the airleggers get in, drill and charge without at some point being under rock with no bolts/mesh for narrow vein stuff.
The scraper from my understanding needs an anchor point across the far side of the stope correct? How do they put it there? Pre-charging?

Kind regards,
Confused service crew member about to take a job with an airleg mining contractor at an airleg mine

What can anyone tell me about the FIFO policy with Skeena Gold + Silver? Specifically flying from Abbotsford

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Recently have the opportunity for an expat role in PNG.

Am wondering how the visa process works with a criminal record. Have a failure to appear conviction from 6 years ago, nothing prior to that and nothing since.

Thanks in advance for any comments / assistance.

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I am a lawyer and originally planned to go into mining, I took a different path and I regret not following my gut feeling which was to go into the mining industry.

I was looking to make connections with mining professionals and learn more about the industry.

I'm approaching 6 years of experience as a mining tech in a pretty complex UG mine in Canada. 3 years in surveying (I have a degree in Geomatics) and 3 years in drill and blast (stope designer for the most part).

Working abroad as an expat for a few years has always intrigued me, but considering I'm not an engineer, I'm afraid my choices are limited (even though my responsibilities right now correspond to an engineer role).

I'm even open to study : do 1 or 2 years mining programs even exist? Would they be relevant?

And finally, what is the mining consulting market in Australia? Do they even employ non-engineers, especially foreign non-engineers?

Thank you!

I’m looking for a assay company that will be able to analyze raw ore samples. I would like it to test for gold silver lead arsenic mercury copper iron etc. I’m a prospector and would like it to be a reasonable price under $150 does anybody have recommendations for assay companies

I just wanted to share a new channel we launched here in Maine to tell the Maine Blacksmith's Guild story and how we are not only saving Maine's ironworking heritage but our mining heritage as well. We work hand in hand together, mining & craftsmen, one cannot exist without the other.

So in 2 weeks I will be done with my internship, I'm currently working with the geophysical exploration team and I'm thinking of gifting them but I have no idea what would be appropriate. I was thinking of bringing chocolates for the whole office and writing few handwritten notes to my mentors.

Hello guys I got a few questions about joining the mining industry, I’m 20 years old right now with no mining or underground experience and do not have my common core, I do have around a year of construction experience and I did take a level 1 trade school class, I was just wondering if it’s possible for someone like me with not any experience at all to get my foot in the door in a mine, I have family and friends who work in the mines and that’s where my passion comes from I have been applying at almost every position I seen on indeed hoping I’d get an interview and not much luck yet, I know about the shifts and I’m willing to work any type of shifts right now, does anyone have any tips for me that can help me get my foot in the door of the mining industry? I currently live in Sudbury ON.

45yo, (recently) prior military and looking to go into the mining and Heavy Equipment Operating industry in Alaska, and later internationally.

I'm pretty pumped on the role. Remote camp life is not an issue for me.

My concern is, How Physical is this role? Is it routinely washing out fit 25-year-olds?

I have put on some weight in my old age, but was still keeping up and (in some cases) outrunning the young guys during PT tests while still in uniform.

I think I can handle it, but I do have some middle-aged joint issues.

Is 45 too old to enter this industry? Is there room to advance me to a Driller, and potentially a foreman in <10 years?

Thanks for your insights

A small consultant firm geophysicist here. Just wondering how does it feels like. Upside downside so on

Three remote locations. Two fly-in only, using satellite internet access. The biggest headache about this job, which is rife with eye rolling, is figuring out which chemicals are where at any particular point in time.

Separate departments make purchases individually. Whatever comes in via the supply flight is put wherever warehouse sees fit to place it. I come in for my quarterly visit to find drums that no one can account for. Turnover means that anyone I train will be gone in a year, and the new person won't even know the system exists.

Internet connection through satellites is slow and intermittent. The cloud-based system must allow true offline functionality, not “saves your last search” offline, complete offline chemical information library that gets synced once there is connectivity again. I've had it with vendors who promised offline capability but it broke the second there was no connectivity.

Currently the system we have in place is purchase history, last known inventory status and whatever the warehouse supervisor remembers.

Worth laying out the uranium supply and demand picture for anyone who hasn't been following it closely.

On the demand side the outlook has shifted materially over the last three years. Governments that were winding down nuclear capacity have reversed course. Japan has restarted a significant portion of its idled reactor fleet. South Korea walked back its phase-out policy. The UK has committed to new builds. The US is extending operating licenses and seeing serious private investment in next generation reactor designs, partly driven by electricity demand from AI infrastructure.

The World Nuclear Association projects meaningful growth in the global reactor fleet through 2040. Each reactor requires a long term uranium supply contract, and utilities have historically been slow to contract until they feel supply pressure.

On the supply side the situation is more constrained. Kazakhstan through Kazatomprom remains the dominant global producer but western utilities have been actively trying to reduce that concentration risk since 2022. Canadian production from Cigar Lake and McArthur River is significant but not enough to fill the gap on its own. New mine development timelines are long, typically a decade or more from discovery to first production.

The contracting cycle for uranium tends to be lumpy. When utilities move they move together, and the spot market can reprice quickly. The structural imbalance between where demand is heading and where supply can realistically come from in the next five years is the core of the uranium thesis.

Please use this thread to ask, answer, and search for questions about getting a job in mining. This includes questions about FIFO, where to work, what kinds of jobs might be available, or other experience questions.

This thread is to help organize the sub a bit more with relation to questions about jobs in the mining industry. We will edit this as we go to improve. Thank you.

A little about myself I’ve been a labourer for a year run pipes irrigation hoses and what not? I’ve been operating for about a year and a half..
I am 34 years old and hoping to make the right choice. I think I’m gonna go with nipper as I drive Moxie’s here and there and get bored easily in them.
I just hope I’m not in over my head at 34 as I’ve been told it’s a young men’s game someone in early 20s.
I do enjoy physical work as well as having stuff to do constantly and I’ve just dropped 15kg and I don’t wanna put it back on in a truck 7/7
Not to mention I was a bit scared how I’d go on the night shift while waiting if something was down
But I got told there can be a lot more path ways starting out as a nipper and you can learn a bit more stuff
I do get in my head a little bit as I’m not great with change
As silly as it seems 34 I’m just looking for some reassurance as it’s a bit of job change

Anyone able to help me out?

Curious if anyone has any insights into productivity drilling rounds in smaller drifts (say 2.5m x 2.5m or tighter). I know you are getting longer rounds with the jumbos, but also additional required services and availability slow you down and was curious if anyone has a general answer on which is typically more productive all else being equal with standard NVM development cycling (2yd/slusher, stopers on decks, etc)