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Old 09-17-2011, 06:59 AM   #20
ZenGum
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Badelaide, Baustralia
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Mine workers here do get good money, specialists (like a mining engineer) get six figure salaries. The risks are by historical standards low. The conditions are the drag: fly-in fly-out, maybe 12 straight days of 12 hour shifts followed by a block of days off, in some stinking hot middle of nowhere mining camp. The work is still difficult, unpleasant and never 100% safe. Oh and do you remember that giant crocodile and drain full of snakes...?
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