A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.
ORDER III.—MINING AND QUARRYING OCCUPATIONS
Sub-order 3.—In Other Mines and Quarries
076.—Workers in Other Mines and Quarries not elsewhere specified
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- alum clay worker
- gets, or mines, clay shale used in manufacture of alum.
- blaster (barytes, rock salt, etc.)
- as for blaster (054).
- blower (gypsum or plaster)
- a gypsum miner q.v. who drills holes (usually with hand augur), charges and fires them, and often wards up rock loosened by explosion; frequently is also chargeman of small gang of miners; cf. quarrier (072).
- bogie runner, bogier
- as for trammer (054).
- borer, rock salt
- see driller.
- brake lad
; incline lad
- tends self-acting incline, i.e., a tramway worked by gravity, on which descending full tubs or trams draw up empty ones.
- cutter
- see getter.
- delver (barytes mine)
- as for delver (056).
- digger
- see quarrier.
- dresser (barytes mine)
- dries barytes, and grinds it, either between several pairs of revolving burr stones, or in a pulverising mill; sorts it by floating in water, in which coarser particles settle, while finer remain in suspension; dries by steam-heat, and packs in barrels for despatch.
- dresser, gypsum
- picks over gypsum, after it has been quarried, with a pick, to remove foreign substances; sorts gypsum according to quality.
- driller (barytes, rock salt, etc.)
; rock salt borer
- as for driller (047).
- ferrier, rock salt
- fills loose rock-salt into trucks and conveys it to shaft for winding.
- filler
- see loader.
- ganister delver, ganister getter, ganister quarrier, ganister rock getter
- see miner.
- getter, rock getter, stone getter
; cutter, hewer, rock salt roofer
- works at rock face "getting" mineral, e.g., rock salt, barytes, etc., in a mine or quarry, by hewing, drilling or blasting; cf. miner.
- hewer (barytes mine)
- (i) as for hewer (054);
- (ii) see getter.
- incline lad
- see brake lad.
- loader
; filler, rock salt loftman
- as for filler (072).
- loftman, rock salt
- Irish term see loader.
- lyncher
- a getter q.v. in rock salt mining.
- miller (barytes mine)
- tends grinding plant which reduces barytes to fine powder.
- miner
; ganister delver, ganister getter, ganister quarrier, ganister rock getter, gypsum rockman
- as for quarrier (072)
- sometimes specifically designated according to substance mined, e.g., alum miner, amber miner, barytes (cauk) miner, ganister miner, gypsum miner, ochre miner, quartz miner, rock salt miner, spar miner.
- mine worker
- general term for any worker in or about mines, such as alum, barium, barytes, calamine, felspar, fluor spar, jet, mellite, ochre, plaster or gypsum, quartz mines.
- navvy man, steam navvy man
- assists steam navvy driver (950) q.v. in excavation work in quarries of gypsum, ironstone, etc., directing operations by signals.
- picker, rock salt
- works underground, sorting out various qualities of rock salt.
- pit boy, pit labourer
- does any unskilled work in pit or quarry, e.g., signalling to enginemen, pushing trucks, cleaning and sweeping roadways, loading trucks.
- pit worker
- general term for any person employed in quarry or pit, including digger, getter, filler, loader, miner.
- putter
- as for bogier (054).
- quarrier, quarryman
; digger
- as for quarrier (074).
- quarry worker
- general term for all persons employed in quarries.
- roadman
- lays and repairs roads in mines and quarries, sometimes also lays rails; cf. platelayer (577).
- rockman, gypsum
- see miner.
- roofer, rock salt
- see getter.
- shaftman, rock salt
- is responsible for maintenance of shafts in salt mine.
- striker, rock salt
- detaches tubs of rock salt from haulage chain when they reach surface.
- strontia digger, strontionite digger, strontionite quarryman
- a quarryman q.v. digging or blasting for strontionite.
- strontia pit worker
- general term for any person employed in a strontia mine or quarry.
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A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921,
Ministry of Labour, 1927. Digitised by Peter Christian, August, 2016. This text is in the Public Domain. 