Mike Breecher tells us all about his job.

Ashley Larsen is now a full-ticket Heavy Duty Mechanic at Copper Mountain mine in British Columbia, Canada.

Scam artists have turned their attention to the mining sector's large legion of job-seekers, several of whom are already out thousands of dollars.

They are definitely making more than those working in forestry, manufacturing, finance and construction.

Having looked more closely at the situation for Geologists in Australia, where we found that even though there have been job losses, salaries for Geologists have remained pretty constant for those still employed in mining.