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Take mining jobs boom Down Under with pinch of salt

Andrew Topf | January 07, 2012 | 11:58 pm Australia Europe 

Thanks to nzsucks for summoning his/her inner skeptic when reading about the mining jobs boom in Australia. While stories abound of 20-something lads earning up to $200,000 a year operating mining equipment in remote towns, nzsucks did some research and discovered...

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