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

On Aug. 18, Murray’s chief financial officer Robert D. Moore wrote to Perry warning that a Murray Energy bankruptcy would imperil $2.7 billion in secured debt and nearly $7 billion in unfunded mineworker pensions.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2017

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