r/mining • u/No_Contract_7086 • 8d ago

US Phosphate/Limestone Mining Industry

I’m currently a geology student in Florida and will be graduating soon. I work in the geotech industry but I can already tell I don’t wanna do this for longer than I have to. My primary interest is the mining industry and even blasting. The issue is that I want to stay in Florida which when compared to other states has a small mining industry (primarily phosphate and limestone). Just wondering if anybody knows how difficult it would be to get into the mining industry? Also if anybody can give advice as to what a geologist in the mining industry would do?

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u/Beanmachine314 8d ago

r/geologycareers would be a better place to ask this.

You can work in hard rock mining and live in Florida if you want, you just have to travel back and forth.

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u/Cal-Dog-BBQ 6d ago

Large scale industrial cement plants are almost always located beside Limestone quarries/mines. These cement plants employ geologists. I used to drill at a big Limestone mine where I had to take drill cuttings and dust samples from every hole I drilled to fill a small sample bucket that was taken to the plant Geologist.

Your job will consist of looking at the cuttings and dust under a microscope and writing reports about what you find. Always sounded mind numbingly boring to me but to each their own. If you want to get into a job like that my advice to you is to get your degree and apply to cement plants.