# 29 C.F.R. § 570.60 (2026): Occupations in connection with mining, other than coal (Order 9) > Federal · Regulations · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/CFR_T29_P570_S570_60 ## Section - **Citation:** 29 C.F.R. § 570.60 (2026) - **Heading:** Occupations in connection with mining, other than coal (Order 9) - **Jurisdiction:** Federal - **Kind:** Regulations - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** Title 29 CFR: Labor / Chapter V: WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR / Part 570: CHILD LABOR REGULATIONS, ORDERS AND STATEMENTS OF INTERPRETATION / Subpart E: Occupations Particularly Hazardous for the Employment of Minors Between 16 and 18 Years of Age or Detrimental to Their Health or Well-Being / § 570.60: § 570.60 Occupations in connection with mining, other than coal (Order 9). ## Text (a) Finding and declaration of fact. All occupations in connection with mining, other than coal, are particularly hazardous for the employment of minors between 16 and 18 years of age or detrimental to their health or well-being and employment in such occupations is therefore prohibited under section 12 of the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended, except the following: (1) Work in offices, in the warehouse or supply house, in the change house, in the laboratory, and in repair or maintenance shops not located underground. (2) Work in the operation and maintenance of living quarters. (3) Work outside the mine in surveying, in the repair and maintenance of roads, and in general clean-up about the mine property such as clearing brush and digging drainage ditches. (4) Work of track crews in the building and maintaining of sections of railroad track located in those areas of open-cut metal mines where mining and haulage activities are not being conducted at the time and place that such building and maintenance work is being done. (5) Work in or about surface placer mining operations other than placer dredging operations and hydraulic placer mining operations. (6) The following work in metal mills other than in mercury-recovery mills or mills using the cyanide process: (i) Work involving the operation of jigs, sludge tables, flotation cells, or drier-filters; (ii) Work of hand-sorting at picking table or picking belt; (iii) General clean-up work: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall be construed as permitting employment of minors in any occupation prohibited by any other hazardous occupations order issued by the Secretary of Labor. nide process: (i) Work involving the operation of jigs, sludge tables, flotation cells, or drier-filters; (ii) Work of hand-sorting at picking table or picking belt; (iii) General clean-up work: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall be construed as permitting employment of minors in any occupation prohibited by any other hazardous occupations order issued by the Secretary of Labor. (b) Definitions. As used in this section: The term all occupations in connection with mining, other than coal shall mean all work performed underground in mines and quarries; on the surface at underground mines and underground quarries; in or about open-cut mines, open quarries, clay pits, and sand and gravel operations; at or about placer mining operations; at or about dredging operations for clay, sand or gravel; at or about bore-hole mining operations; in or about all metal mills, washer plants, or grinding mills reducing the bulk of the extracted minerals; and at or about any other crushing, grinding, screening, sizing, washing or cleaning operations performed upon the extracted minerals except where such operations are performed as a part of a manufacturing process. The term shall not include work performed in subsequent manufacturing or processing operations, such as work performed in smelters, electro-metallurgical plants, refineries reduction plants, cement mills, plants where quarried stone is cut, sanded and further processed, or plants manufacturing clay glass or ceramic products. Neither shall the term include work performed in connection with coal mining, in petroleum production, in natural-gas production, nor in dredging operations which are not a part of mining operations, such as dredging for construction or navigation purposes. [16 FR 7008, July 20, 1951. Redesignated at 28 FR 1634, Feb. 21, 1963, and amended at 28 FR 3449, Apr. 9, 1963. 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