[TheRealVille]

Are they hiring surface or underground miners? Most of the underground mines are hiring anyone who has their certification and can pass a drug test.

Surface mines are differnent, companies are beginning to run out of permitted areas as most have permits that have state approval the EPA is still not approving 404 permits and approving very few NPDES permits. If surface mines are hiring I have to wonder for how long?

Some of both. The guys that I was talking about jumping to different jobs, were surface. The first buddy works in an underground,his company has a pretty much open call for people that have a card and can pee clean. The point is, that it isn't as bad as conservatives would have you believe. The link shows it. In my trade, I used to have to travel all over to find the work. Some of the miners around here might have to do what a lot of us have done for years, travel to the work.