One Of Four Trapped Welsh Miners Found Dead

ZenGum · 09-17-2011, 06:59 AM

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...?

09-17-2011, 06:59 AM	#20
ZenGum Doctor Wtf Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Badelaide, Baustralia Posts: 12,861	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...? __________________ Shut up and hug. MoreThanPretty, Nov 5, 2008. Just because I'm nominally polite, does not make me a pussy. Sundae Girl.

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