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miner

[mahy-ner] / ˈmaɪ nər /
NOUN
digger
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The London-listed miner has the most compelling organic copper growth story out of all its peers, Berenberg analysts write.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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

Glencore slides 3.4% while copper miner Antofagasta falls 6%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

He writes: Most likely at least one adult — probably a coal miner from Poland, Czechoslovakia, or Italy — brought the virus to Limburg.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

Ramelius’s stock is down 1.7% at 3.675 Australian dollars, broadly in line with stock movements of other Australian gold miners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 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

That justifies higher copper prices and reinforces the case for miners to buy copper growth, rather than building new mines, in some instances, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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

During World War II, many Coalwood miners, including my father, were exempted from service because of the need for coal in the war effort.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam




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