`83100` Underground production and development miners

Yes. NOC 83100 is a high-wage occupation.

Level 1: at least 1.3× median wage TEER 3

TEER 0 to 3 work still counts for Canadian experience work-length points.

Points from November 3, 2026

12+ months Canadian experience in this occupation	+20 extra, on top of work-length points
Qualifying job offer in this occupation	50

Set up and operate drills and drilling machines to produce a designated pattern of blasting holes
Operate diamond drills or other specialized drills such as raise boring machinery to test geological formations or to produce underground passageways
Set up and operate mining machinery to shear coal, rock or ore from the working face
Load explosives, set fuses, and detonate explosives to produce desired blasting patterns and rock fragmentation in underground mines
Operate scooptram, load-haul-dump (LHD) machine or mucking machine to load and haul ore from stopes, drifts and drawpoints to ore passes
Perform duties required to ensure safety and to support the mining advance, such as scaling loose rock from walls and roof, drilling and installing rock bolts, extending and installing air and water pipes, operating ore loading machinery, inspecting mine shafts, operating hoists that transport people, equipment and materials through mine shafts, and constructing timber supports and cribbing if required

A new Labour Market Integration factor replaces the Canadian work experience points.
Canadian experience in a high-wage occupation adds 20, 40 or 70 points on top of work-length points.
A job offer in a high-wage occupation gives 50, 70 or 100 points, and no LMIA is needed.
The two routes do not add up. You get the higher one: up to 150 points (140 with a spouse).
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