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Specialties that open doors
Ventilation engineering
Keeping air moving in an underground mine is a small specialty that people's lives depend on.
Rock mechanics and ground control
Deciding what will hold up and what will collapse. Rare, technical and in demand.
Blasting and explosives engineering
Requires separate permits and training in most states.
Mine planning software and resource modeling
The people who build the block model and the schedule decide what the mine is worth.