mineworker
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"When we are deep in the mines, temperatures are very high - digging the mineral is also very hard... plus there can be other harmful gases," mineworker Peter Osiasi told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
The country registered 49 mineworker deaths in 2022, its safest year on record.
From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2023
“As long as other countries are willing to buy it from us, we’re going to be mining coal,” said Godfrey Adamthwaite, a retired third-generation mineworker who serves on the Singleton shire council.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2021
Strike leader Gaddafi Mdoda, a mineworker at Anglo American Platinum, or Amplats, said he was one of the workers who received emails or SMS messages telling them they had been dismissed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2012
Her father, a mineworker, had died when she was an infant, and her mother when she was twelve.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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