Miner (disambiguation)
Encyclopedia
An occupation
- A person who works in a mineMiningMining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...
- A soldier who removes landmines
Flora and fauna
- Australian birds of the genus ManorinaManorinaManorina is a genus of Australian endemic honeyeaters, containing four species: the Black-eared Miner, M. melanotis, the Yellow-throated Miner, M. flavigula, the Noisy Miner, M. melanocephala, and the Bell Miner, M. melanophrys...
in the honeyeater family - South American birds of the genus GeosittaGeosittaGeositta is a genus of passerine birds in the ovenbird family, Furnariidae. They are known as miners due to the tunnels they dig for nesting. There are 11 species including the Campo Miner which was formerly classified in a genus of its own, Geobates...
in the ovenbird family - Leaf minerLeaf minerLeaf miner is a term used to describe the larvae of many different species of insect which live in and eat the leaf tissue of plants. The vast majority of leaf-mining insects are moths , sawflies and flies , though some beetles and wasps also exhibit this behavior.Like Woodboring beetles, leaf...
s, insect larvae which live inside leaves
Places with the name, Miner
- Miner, MissouriMiner, MissouriMiner is a city in Mississippi and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. It borders the city of Sikeston to the east. The population was 1,056 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Miner is located at ....
, a city in Missouri, USA - Miner County, South DakotaMiner County, South DakotaAs of the census of 2000, there were 2,884 people, 1,212 households, and 789 families residing in the county. The population density was 5 people per square mile . There were 1,408 housing units at an average density of 2 per square mile...
, USA
The surname Miner. People with this surname include
Horace Mitchell MinerHorace Mitchell Miner
Horace Mitchell Miner was an anthropologist, particularly interested in those societies of his time that were still closely tied to the earth?...
, American anthropologist
Jack Miner
Jack Miner
John Thomas Miner, OBE , or "Wild Goose Jack," was a Canadian conservationist called by some the "father" of North American conservationism.-Biography:...
, Canadian conservationist
Conservationist
Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...
Jan Miner
Jan Miner
Jan Miner was an American actress best known for her iconic role as the manicurist Madge in a 27-year series of television commercials for Palmolive dish-washing detergent....
, American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
actress
Jay Miner
Jay Miner
Jay Glenn Miner , was a famous integrated circuit designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips and as the "father of the Amiga"...
, American circuit designer
Myrtilla Miner
Myrtilla Miner
Myrtilla Miner was an American educator and abolitionist whose school for African Americans, established against considerable opposition, grew to a successful and long-lived teachers institution.Miner was educated at the Clover Street Seminary in Rochester, New York , and taught at various schools,...
, American educator and abolitionist
Rachel Miner
Rachel Miner
Rachel Miner is a Broadway, film and television actress, born in New York City.-Personal life:A third generation Miner in show business, she is the daughter of director and teacher Peter Miner and the granddaughter of director/producer Worthington Miner and actress Frances Fuller...
, American actress
Steve Miner
Steve Miner
Stephen C. "Steve" Miner is an American film and television director who is also a film producer.Miner was born in Westport, Connecticut. Television programs Miner has directed include The Wonder Years, Jake 2.0, Felicity, Dawson's Creek , and Diagnosis: Murder...
, American film and television director
Television director
A television director directs the activities involved in making a television program and is part of a television crew.-Duties:The duties of a television director vary depending on whether the production is live or recorded to video tape or video server .In both types of productions, the...
Zach Miner
Zach Miner
Zachary Charles Miner is a Major League Baseball pitcher currently in the Kansas City Royals organization. He bats and throws right-handed.-Atlanta Braves:...
, American baseball player