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I’d Rather Be A Nipper Than A Flunky ( Jobs in Mining History)

  • suzannenorquist
  • Aug 10, 2019
  • 1 min read

Updated: Sep 2, 2020

The stereotypical image of historic miners is that of an unskilled laborer with a pick-ax and shovel. Think of the Seven Dwarfs. “We dig, dig, dig . . .” Once a mine had been established, workers performed various jobs, and few of them looked like the dwarfs swinging pick-axes in vast, well-lit caverns.



In order to lengthen the tunnels, rock had to be blasted and removed. The miners would . . .


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