mineworker

Example Sentences

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Peter Short, a former mineworker who worked at Bilsthorpe, Harworth and Thoresby mines, said he was "delighted" by the news.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

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

From Reuters • Nov. 28, 2023

“We will show America how we celebrate organized labor and all workers — the waitress in Dayton, the office worker in Toledo, the nurse in Columbus, the mineworker in Coshocton,” he continued.

From Washington Post • Nov. 10, 2018

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