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the human who descends into the dark so the world can stay lit
means A person who works to extract coal, ore, minerals, or other substances from beneath the earth's surface.
from From the Old French 'minour' or 'mineor,' a digger of mines, ultimately from the verb 'miner' (to mine, to dig). The root noun 'mine' likely traces back through Late Latin 'mina' — and some trace it further to a Celtic source, since the Gauls were known to the Romans as skilled diggers of metal. The word arrived in English in the medieval period, when 'mining' meant not only digging for treasure but also tunnelling beneath an enemy's walls to bring them down — the same sappers' work that gave us 'undermine.'
- canary backup
- Caged birds detected deadly gas until 1986
- black lung
- Coal dust scars lungs over decades underground
- deepest reach
- South African gold mines go 4 kilometers down
- rock heat
- Deep shafts hit 60°C from Earth's own warmth
- strike power
- Miners' unions toppled governments and rewrote labor law
canary in coal mine — birds used to detect toxic gases in british and american coal mines until the 1980s
gold miners california 1849 — approximately 300,000 people rushed to california during the gold rush