mineworker

Example Sentences

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The country registered 49 mineworker deaths in 2022, its safest year on record.

From Reuters • Nov. 28, 2023

Former mineworker Stephen O'Reilly was among their victims, lost more than £100,000, and now has to work in a bookmakers to pay his bills.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2022

“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