8 sentences with 'miners'
Example sentences and phrases with the word miners and other words derived from it.
• « Among construction workers, miners, railway workers and dock workers, studies have recorded a consumption of wine and beer that exceeds three times the normal level; the ingestion of up to a litre and a half of wine at a time was, in these sectors, considered acceptable and even necessary to alleviate the harshness of the work. »
• « Construction workers, miners and railway workers endure harsh working conditions and, at least until recently, were obliged to work frequent overtime. »
• « Thatcher took a hard line with the unions, closing the coal mines in the north of England rather than give in to the demands of the coal miners' union (the British mining industry simply closed as a result - it has never recovered). »
• « But there would be no miners here were it not for the tenacity of geologists who, noting the geological similarities between Western Australia and the diamond-bearing areas of South Africa, deduced that there must also be ancient volcanic vents full of kimberlite, the mineral in which diamonds are often found. »
• « The first inhabitants of the future permanent constructions on the Moon will probably be miners, who on board automated, robot-assisted vehicles will scavenge the Selenite surface for rocks rich in helium-3. »
• « Once in California, gathered in camps with names like Drunkard's Bar, Angel's Camp, Gouge Eye and Whiskeytown, the "forty miners" did not find wealth as easy to come by as they had first imagined. »
• « Independent miners were supplanted by companies that could afford not only to buy hydraulic mining technology, but also to hire labour to work in the hills. »
• « The frustration of many miners was expressed in the words of Sullivan Osborne. In 1857, Osborne wrote that he had come to California "full of high hopes and bright anticipations of the future" only to find that his dreams "have long since perished". »