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Luxury material silver miners extract (6)

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ermine

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'luxury material' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both substances as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe they are linked in a way I don't understand?

'silver miners extract' is the wordplay.
'ERMINE' is hidden within the letters.
But, I'm not sure how this is indicated.

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(Other definitions for ermine that I've seen before include "White fur from kind of 25 Across - judges may wear it" , "In mere strange fur" , "White fur worn by some judges" , "Regal fur" , "garb for nobility" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times and The Sunday Times.
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