Job Title or Location

Miner

Tantalum Mining Corp. of Canada Ltd.

Lac du Bonnet, MB

Job Details:

$40.37 / hour
Full-time
Experienced

Benefits:

Health Insurance
Paid Time Off

Overview
  • Work Term: Permanent
  • Work Language: English
  • Hours: 80 hours bi-weekly
  • Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
  • Experience: 5 years or more
  • Work site environment
  • Underground
  • Confined spaces
  • Work setting
  • Hard rock mine
  • Relocation costs not covered by employer
  • Willing to relocate
  • Tasks
  • Ensure the safety of the mine by scaling loose rock from walls and roof, drilling and installing rock bolts
  • Inspect mine shafts
  • Operate specialized drills to produce underground passageways
  • Operate the mucking loader in the process of loading a conveyor for transport
  • Set up and operate drills and drilling machines to produce a designated pattern of blasting holes
  • Support the mining advancement by extending and installing air and water pipes or operating ore loading machinery
  • Load explosives, set fuses, and detonate explosives to produce desired blasting patterns and rock fragmentation in underground mines
  • Operate scooptram or load-haul-dump (LHD) machine to load and haul ore from stopes, drifts and drawpoints to ore passes
  • Mining equipment
  • Load-haul-dump unit (LHD)
  • Scooptram
  • Specialized drills
  • Drilling equipment
  • Jumbo drill
  • Area of specialization
  • Mining and exploration
  • Transportation/travel information
  • Valid driver's licence
  • Own transportation
  • Own vehicle
  • Work conditions and physical capabilities
  • Physically demanding
  • Attention to detail
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Screening questions
  • Do you have experience working in this field?
  • Employment terms options
  • Early morning
  • Shift
  • Morning
  • Employment terms options
  • Day
  • Green job
  • Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
  • Health benefits
  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • As per collective agreement
  • Other benefits
  • Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
  • Wellness program