As an aside to this query, there is a photo of a memorial to a "hard rock
miner" note not a "hardrocker", but similar) in Juneau, Alaska at
http://ithinkmining.com/2008/03/11/the-juneau-hard-rock-miner/
Looks like a good carving, I want to go to Alaska one day in next few years,
so may track him down!
Incidentally is King A looking into the term "hardrocker" (as in his email)
not "hard rock miner" or "hardrock miner" - might seem pedantic, but could
be important ??
Cheers
Roger
On 18/07/2013, at 6:07 AM, Peter Claughton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I've had the following query on the term 'hardrocker' as used to denote a
> miner working on hard rock mining and it's first use in North America - is
> it perhaps of European origin?
>
>> My name is King Adkins and I am a professor at the South Dakota School of
>> Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota. I'm doing research into
>> our school nickname, "The Hardrockers." Located in the Black Hills of
>> South Dakota, I know, of course, that the term relates to hard rock
>> mining, but my interest is in tracking down the origins of this specific
>> term. Was it for instance, a slang term invented by the miners
>> themselves, or was it created by the industry to refer to such miners?
>> Did it originate here in the Black Hills, or does it date back further in
>> the history of mining?
>
> Peter
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