A person who works in a gold mine, extracting gold ore from the earth.
From 'gold' + 'miner.' Compound word combining the precious metal with the occupation word 'miner' (from Latin minera, meaning ore or mine). Goldminers were especially prominent during gold rushes like the California Gold Rush of 1849.
The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought hundreds of thousands of people west, and the term 'goldminer' became iconic in American identity—entire towns sprang up around gold finds, and many of today's major California cities started as mining camps.
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