chloridern.
/ˈklɔːrʌɪdə/ One who mines for ores containing chloride of silver.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines other specific substances
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1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 229 ‘Chloriders’ have been at work during the past summer, and have shipped a few tons of ore to Eureka.
1957 Encycl. Brit. IX. 549/2 A ‘fossicker’..[in Australia] is one who buys up the right to search old claims, in the hope of finding gold overlooked by previous diggers. He is comparable with the ‘chlorider’ of the United States.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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