gold miners
Panning for nuggets
Gold miners are people who extract gold from the earth, whether through large-scale industrial operations or individual prospecting.
The term evokes both historical figures—the forty-niners who rushed to California in 1849—and modern workers in mining companies.
Her great-grandfather was a gold miner in the Yukon.
- boom townFast-growing prosperous settlement
- pickaxesPointed tools for breaking ground
- shaftNarrow vertical passage
- underground tunnelsEnclosed routes below ground
- prospectorOne seeking valuable deposits
panning · pay dirt · mother lode · goldfields · excavation · ore · digger · extracting · forty-niners · claim · drilling · stampeders · stake a claim · blasting · sluice box · tunneling · prospecting · claims
- raw material producersoil companies, farmers, ranchers, fisheries, coffee growers
- Mining Industry
- Western folklorePecos Bill, tall tales, cowboy legends, jackalope, ghost towns
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Westernscowboys, western, outlaws, sheriffs, western novels
- Gold Rushgoldfield, prospectors, sluice, forty-niners, Sutter's Mill
extraction vs. acquisition/handling
gold minersjewelers
Gem and precious metal merchants
gold dealers · goldsmiths · bankers · pawnbrokers · numismatists
gold, miners, miner, mine, golds, golden, goldsmith, gilded, gild