gold miner
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3.1
- noun
- /ɡoʊld ˈmaɪnər/
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minero de oro
- Many gold miners rely on traditional panning techniques to find precious nuggets in the stream.
- gold miners and loggers
- gold miners and ranchers
- gold miners and settlers
And if working hard were enough, then the coal miners and the gravediggers and the gold miners, not the mine owners.
- And if working hard were enough, then the coal miners and the gravediggers and the gold miners, not the mine owners.
- Some, you know, a child of a couple of, you know, a couple of gold miners or whatever, and this dude's just splash scalping some bird.
- But the gold miners are notorious for, you know, just whacking people and throwing them in a, in a pile of, you know, gold mining leftovers.
Examples
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New paved highways, especially those in the Amazon Basin, brought wave after wave of farmers, ranchers, and gold miners into formerly remote wildernesses, resulting in forest clearing on a scale that was visible from space.
Academic text (1997) -
Probably at least half a million gold miners now operate in Amazonia, not including the merchants, restaurateurs, prostitutes, and others dependent on the mining.
Academic text (1992) -
Do all gold miners get that?
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That holds for hunters, not for gold miners.
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Other than loggers and gold miners, what other industries are down there?
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Your son is the most natural-born gold miner that I ever met.
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Additional resource demands have come to Nyungwe Forest in the form of several thousand hopeful gold miners, who work the lower stream beds.
Academic text (1996) -
The most important initial sites for the local gold miners included Serra Pelada (16 percent), Cuca (11 percent), Rio Branco (10 percent), and Cumaru (7 percent).
Academic text (1992) -
After years of searching for gold, the dedicated gold miner finally struck it rich in the riverbed.
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The documentary featured a team of gold miners who traveled deep into the mountains to extract gold from the earth.
Synonyms
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2.3
A person who works in a mine to take coal or minerals from the ground
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2.8
A person who digs holes or trenches as their job
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5.3
A person who digs or pans for gold at a mine
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7.7
A person who washes soil in a pan to look for gold
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3.3
A person who works in a mine to take out coal or minerals
A person who washes soil and small stones in a pan to find gold
A person who searches river sand for gold by washing or digging it up
A person who removes topsoil and rock with large machines to get coal or minerals
How Experienced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who extracts gold' is directly and compositionally derived from 'gold' (the metal) + 'miner' (a person who extracts ore), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the MWE. This noun–noun compounding is a transparent, cross-linguistically common pattern and follows regular English word-formation, making the phrase immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Gold miner comes from a simple picture: a miner digging or panning to find shiny gold in rivers and rocks. That's why gold miner means 'a person who gets gold from the earth'.