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Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers
Conduct subsurface surveys to identify the characteristics of potential land or mining development sites. May specify the ground support systems, processes, and equipment for safe, economical, and environmentally sound extraction or underground construction activities. May inspect areas for unsafe geological conditions, equipment, and working conditions. May design, implement, and coordinate mine safety programs.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Prepare technical reports for use by mining, engineering, and management personnel.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Inspect mining areas for unsafe structures, equipment, and working conditions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Select or develop mineral location, extraction, and production methods, based on factors such as safety, cost, and deposit characteristics.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Select locations and plan underground or surface mining operations, specifying processes, labor usage, and equipment that will result in safe, economical, and environmentally sound extraction of minerals and ores.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Prepare schedules, reports, and estimates of the costs involved in developing and operating mines.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Monitor mine production rates to assess operational effectiveness.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Supervise, train, and evaluate technicians, technologists, survey personnel, engineers, scientists or other mine personnel.Mostly human for now
- 08Examine maps, deposits, drilling locations, or mines to determine the location, size, accessibility, contents, value, and potential profitability of mineral, oil, and gas deposits.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Design, implement, and monitor the development of mines, facilities, systems, or equipment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Test air to detect toxic gases and recommend measures to remove them, such as installation of ventilation shafts.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
48%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 74% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 55% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Supervise, train, and evaluate technicians, technologists, survey personnel, engineers, scientists or other mine personnel.