Mining commodities
Gold, iron ore, lithium, copper: the commodity being mined shapes the kind of role, site, and location you'll be looking at more than almost anything else. Pick a commodity to see where it's mined, the roles that come up most often, and live job ads.
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Gold
328 live jobs
Gold is mined from both open-pit and underground operations, processed on-site through crushing, grinding and a leach circuit (CIL/CIP) to produce doré bars.
Copper
57 live jobs
Copper is produced from both open-pit and large-scale underground (including block-cave) operations, processed through flotation or SX-EW depending on the ore type.
Iron Ore
42 live jobs
Iron ore is bulk open-pit mined and moved at huge scale: haul trucks, rail and port infrastructure are as much a part of the operation as the pit itself.
Oil Gas
32 live jobs
Offshore and onshore oil & gas roles run on a different roster culture to hard-rock mining: 2-3 week offshore swings are common rather than the FIFO patterns typical elsewhere.
Coal
27 live jobs
Coal splits into metallurgical (steelmaking) and thermal (power generation) grades, mined via longwall and open-cut methods depending on the deposit.
Lithium
24 live jobs
Lithium comes from hard-rock spodumene mining (crushed and concentrated on-site) or brine extraction, and is one of the fastest-growing commodities on the back of battery demand.
Zinc Lead
13 live jobs
Zinc and lead are frequently mined together (often alongside silver), typically from underground operations feeding a flotation concentrator.
Bauxite Alumina
12 live jobs
Bauxite is shallow open-cut mined and refined into alumina before being smelted into aluminium; many roles sit at the refinery rather than the mine itself.
Nickel
0 live jobs
Nickel is mined from laterite (near-surface, often open-pit) or sulphide (typically underground) deposits, then smelted or processed into intermediate products.
Uranium
0 live jobs
Uranium mining is tightly regulated, with roles requiring specific radiation-safety training in addition to standard site inductions.
Mineral Sands
0 live jobs
Mineral sands operations extract ilmenite, rutile and zircon via dredge or dry mining, then separate them through a mineral separation plant.
Rare Earths
0 live jobs
Rare earths mining and processing is a niche, technically specialised part of the industry; separation chemistry is as important as the mining itself.