Miner
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
One who mines; a digger for metals and other minerals. While men of scientilicattainments, or of experience in the use oi machinery, are to be found in this Ziass, yet the word by which the class is designated imports neither learning nor skill. {Colo.) 19 Pac. Rep. 604. anything may be dug; such as beds of stone which may be quarried.
14 Mees. & W. 859.
Any natural production, formed by the action of chemical affinities, and organized when becoming solid by the powers of crystalization.
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