What are the asians using coal for?

To make the steel we buy from them in the form of raw steel, vehicles and consumer products as well as home heating.

$112,000 per year!

That is double my fat ass - you make too much - take a wage cut - steelworkers union sawmill wage of $60,000!!!!

Frank

Frank, that's one way to look at it. The other way is to take your trade over to the mining industry and get in on the action.

112,000 a year beacuase they are flying into remote areas away from their families for 2-4 weeks at a time. Not to mention working on the sides of mountians where the wind chill can easily reach into the minus 50's. Must people sacrifice alot for that money and it is well deserved

It's about time mining got the credit it deserves as a viable industry in B.C.
It has been beaten down and ignored for far too long!
Mind you,nothing will happen without the full support of the provincial and federal governments.
All depends on whether or not they are willing to consider the needs of everyone in B.C....or just a chosen few?
This is a good time to find out who is really calling the shots in B.C.!

I have a good idea, Let get mining rocking again, then lets vote in the NDP and see if they can screw it up again . Remember 1972??

I love it when NDP are pulled out of the closet and dusted off while we get screwed over big time by Gordo and the fiberals. They make the NDP look like rank amateurs. Just amazing

I agree seamutt. Hopefully, we keep the NDP in the closet and never dust them off.

Is mining going to grow before the forest industry returns? "it takes several years to bring a new mine into production"

Good that some have already spent all those years (and an astronomical amount of money) and might now be getting close, but we must get this approval process fixed if the mining sector is going to choose this part of the world to operate.
Timing is everything to these and any other big project, while markets are cyclical.

"112,000 a year beacuase they are flying into remote areas away from their families for 2-4 weeks at a time. Not to mention working on the sides of mountians where the wind chill can easily reach into the minus 50's. Must people sacrifice alot for that money and it is well deserved"

Also, don't forget that they may only get those wages for a handful of years while the operation is viable and then they could be making squat for a period of time.

The bottomline is that there are loads of good paying jobs out there. One common thing for all of them though, is that they generally require some form of personal sacrifice to obtain. It may be making $12 an hour for years while you attend a post secondary institution or it may mean being isolated in a dangerous environment for months on end. Big money generally doesn't come easy.

Frank,

Where should the other 60K go? To the shareholders. Then you would be spouting off about how evil the corporation is. Good for the workers who are making a good living, I wish everyone had their success.

The article says **Average mining salary** Not average miners salary, so it could be an average of both management and workers. On the other hand a salary of $60,000 to $70,000 with benefits like pensions, holidays, etc; etc usually morphs to approx $100,000.00 per year.

Unless we get more specific info, we really dont know who is getting paid what.

I suspect that if it is the miners, then there is a hell of a lot of overtime involved, which of course pushes up the salary.

Guys, Guys ...

You wouldn't be tryin' to stir things up a bit, would you?

I mean, if there's no option except adding cyanide to a lake so that a mining company doesn't incur undue expenses ...

where's the concern for future drinking water? fish for food?

What's so terrible about preserving watersheds? Are you saying that nobody is allowed to mention those life-supporting issues?

Are you planning to emigrate to Mars or somethin' ?

An average of 62.50/hr which is averaged from overpaid management and over compensated CEO's as well as benefits and overtime isn't unreasonable. It means a skilled tradesman would only be making about 30.00 0r less /hr. and the common labourer at oh say 18-20?hr.
Consider that they pay $1.00 plus per litre in gas and figure in insurance and vehicle maintenance. So say $300 per month. What's left for mortgages, entertainment, Food and clothing in Gordon Campbells BC.
And after he has rubberstamped an EAO assessment certificate I guess your net income would rise because there will be no fsh or wildlife nor wild food to eat because he has allowed the Mining Consortiums to RAPE our ecosystem so you can't fish or hunt. Now the price of food goes up because the demand is greater.
There is absolutely no justification in ruining habitat for the sake of more money in a CEO's pocket. Period