gold miner
Underground treasure hunter
A gold miner is someone who extracts gold from the earth, whether through industrial mining operations or individual prospecting.
The term evokes images of the California Gold Rush and solitary figures panning streams, but modern gold miners typically work for large companies using heavy machinery: Her grandfather was a gold miner in South Africa.
- forty-ninerGold rush prospector
- prospectorOne seeking valuable deposits
- placerMineral-rich sediment accumulation
- shaftNarrow vertical passage
- mother lodePrincipal ore deposit
pickaxe · excavate · panning · nugget · goldmining · ore · claim staking · boomtown · assayer · claim · sluice · pay dirt · fortune seeker · Comstock Lode · strike · strike it rich · El Dorado · bonanza
- minersforty-niner, overman, timberman, hoistman, getter
- workersworkers, employee, employees, laborer, laborers
- miningcoal, oil, shafts, silver, iron
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Frontiersmenmountain man, frontiersman, backwoodsman, trapper, fur trapper
- desert jobscamel driver, desert guide, Bedouin, nomad, well digger