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Specialties that raise your pay

• Ventilation engineering

  Keeping air moving in an underground mine is a small, well paid 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, and pays for the responsibility.

• Mine planning software and resource modeling

  The people who build the block model and the schedule decide what the mine is worth.