The phrase "a mining job" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to employment or work related to the extraction of minerals or resources from the earth.
Example: "After completing my training, I was excited to apply for a mining job in the local industry."
Alternatives: "a mining position" or "a job in mining".
Machava had returned to Magaro from a mining job in South Africa one day before the storm hit, simply because, he said, he got an inexplicable bad feeling.
After serving in the US navy in the second world war, he returned to live in Jenkins, Kentucky, and took a mining job himself, playing only at local functions, where he was spotted and hired in 1953 by the popular country singer Don Gibson.
Now he feels like one of the last of a breed: "I'm amazed, but it seems young people today would prefer to get a big mining job, without risk, than try their luck".
In a bid to offset mining job losses, the town is working closely with the tourism and equine industries, and is planning a Muswellbrook university campus in a partnership with the University of Southern Queensland and vocational education provider, TAFE.
Twenty-five yeago ago, 1 out of 14 jobs in the state was a coal-mining job.
Here's a coal-mining job for you — go mine your stocking for what "Santa" left you.
Surprisingly, it's also happening in a city like Huntington, West Virginia, that's beset by an opioid epidemic and a loss of coal mining jobs.
The mechanization of above-ground mountaintop removal has prevented any diversified economy and led to a decrease in coal mining jobs in some of the highest poverty stricken strip-mining areas.
The country today has roughly 51,000 coal mining jobs, a sharp fall from 89,400 in 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Over the years, both Republicans and Democrats have touted clean coal as a way to save mining jobs and protect the environment.
Coal state legislators, for their part, have mounted a vigorous defense of mining jobs, but they are at least 30 years too late.
