miner

n. one who works in a mine, digger; any animal that digs or burrows

This article is about mineral extractions. "Mining" can also refer to the installation of explosive devices. See Mine for other meanings, or Myna for the various birds so called. "Miner" redirects here. For other meanings, see Miner (disambiguation).Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. Materials recovered by mining include bauxite, coal, copper, gold, silver, diamonds, iron, precious metals, lead, limestone, nickel, phosphate, oil shale, rock salt, tin, uranium, and molybdenum. Any material that cannot be grown from agricultural processes, or created artificially in a laboratory or factory, is usually mined. Mining in a wider sense can also include extraction of petroleum, natural gas, and even water.
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Noun
1. laborer who works in a mine
(synonym) mineworker
(hypernym) laborer, manual laborer, labourer, jack
(hyponym) coal miner, collier, pitman
(derivation) mine

v. undermine, undercut, erode; sap, mine

(n.)
The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula).
  

(n.)
One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
  

(n.)
Any of numerous insects which, in the larval state, excavate galleries in the parenchyma of leaves. They are mostly minute moths and dipterous flies.