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miner

[mahy-ner] / ˈmaɪ nər /
NOUN
digger
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The state withdrew leases for iron ore and transferred them to rival iron ore miner and steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Like the others who had been detained, the young man, in his 20s, is an artisanal miner, eking out a living searching for precious metals at mine sites.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

He was the genuine artifact, the son of an impoverished Minnesota miner; a lumberjack and a steelworker in his youth.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Copper miner Antofagasta is nearly 3% higher while silver and gold miner Fresnillo trades up 3.1%, and peer Endeavour Mining moves 2.6% higher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The grandson of a coal miner, he takes pride, he says, in having moved up to become a supermarket buyer.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

By his side, the regional mining and geology director, Souleymane Sanogo, took aim at a climate of indulgence which allows irregular miners to thrive.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Burkina Faso's government says the new plant should eventually be capable of refining all the gold produced by both its industrial mines and artisanal miners.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Once little more than a dirt path used by prospecting gold miners, it later became one of the country’s first pedestrian-only promenades when the city closed it off to traffic in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

An intricate, thrilling procedural recounting the race to rescue 33 Chilean miners trapped for 69 days more than half a mile underground.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Welch was a bustling little commercial town set down by the Tug Fork River, its tilted streets filled with throngs of miners and their families come to shop.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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