Financing also came from local miners under the guise of improved mine safety.

Eventually, protest rose from white miners who wanted to eliminate the growing competition.

The soldiers have also been accused of extorting gold from miners.

Further political fallout may depend on the government's ability to counter claims that soldiers demand money from miners for allowing them to work.

This list of companies ranged from local miners to multinational giants.

She said hundreds of additional claims from hunters, farmers and miners along the river were still being received.

One of their early jobs was to collect licence fees from miners searching for gold.

Much of this was likely acquired from other miners.

But they had no more trouble from miners.

He had suffered a serious hand injury in the mines, and found that his only support came from other miners.