Synonyms for miner

excavator, digger, driller, dredger, mineworker, prospector, desert rat*, sourdough*, forty-niner*; see also laborer, worker.

Types of miners include: gold, silver, coal, diamond, amber, quarry, placer; collier, tarrier, driller, blaster, dredger, prospector, hard-rock geologist, caisson worker, gold panner, geologist, geological engineer, mining engineer, mine superintendent; mucker*, donkey engineer*, muckman*, powderman*, high-grader*, rusher*, pocket hunter*, hardrocker*.