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The gold miner said a challenging operating environment continues to impact underground mining, open-pit mining and sulfide processing at its Syama mine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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

Another is Global Laser Enrichment, which is co-owned by Canadian uranium miner Cameco.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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

"And I said, `A coal miner? Why did she want a coal miner if she could've had you?' And he said, `Because when he sings . . . even the birds stop to listen.'"

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Near the central village of Baziafla, flanked by tall grass, the pit was excavated over several weeks with spades, pickaxes and crushers, before the miners were driven out of town by the local authorities.

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

Critics said the overhaul opened up a path for advanced manufacturing facilities such as strip miners, chemical producers, battery recyclers and semiconductor plants to open in communities without any environmental review.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

As miners came off shift, the union signed up those willing to strike.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell