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There are dark, hard, cherty silt-stones from some deep ocean trench full of rapidly accumulating Pennsylvanian guck.
or complementary stones, are arranged nearby.
At the front of my home, in the garden, is a huge piece of clear quartz.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.
Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
Behind stone, with stone, carrying stone
I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden.
Discover the diamonds in everyday life.
Like all high-Lammers, I am a lucky accident of birth, gifted with a talent that can be expanded by something as simple as a mineral. A mineral unfortunately rare and extremely addictive. This - this dust - rules our lives. Sometimes I wonder if it would be better had there been no magic at all.
What could be heavier and more impenetrable than a rock, the densest of all forms? And yet some rocks undergo a change in their molecular structure, turn into crystals, and so become transparent to the light.
the countless unnamed jewels of Mars,
I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have no choice.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
more diamonds and pearls of electricity
Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.
The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.
Different cultural and geological references inspire the collection as seen in ancient tribes and tradition,
Men would wither and custom stale them, but diamonds! Ah, they were crystallized immortality!
Coins from half a hundred distant cities, silver and gold, copper and bronze, square coins and round coins, triangles and rings and bits of bone
For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.
Almost always things just are what they are, almost always there's no glittering ore hidden under the dirt.
Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.
Some things are more important than polished stone.
Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime ... but all it does it get sh*t all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
The noblest of the elements is water
Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined.
We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
In the right hands, anything could be mined into so much more.
A diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure
The medium of exchange in a gold mine is the pickax.
Gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor.
Cinders. Embers. Ashes.
A diamond is just a rock. A really expensive rock.
I build only living stones
men.
Said that gems are lingering reminders of where the gods' hands touched the earth during creation.
The rocks. They carry the chronology of water. All things simultaneously living and dead in your hands.
My best 'inorganic friend' is science!
Give me silence, water, hope
Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes.
A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will discover stars.
A man's own addition to what he learns is cement to bind an otherwise loose heap of stones into a structure of unity, strength, and use.
We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion.
Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
Geology ... offers always some material for observation ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.
Only from dark coal tunnels white diamonds come, but only by the light are they recognised.
The dietaries of the various primitive groups have all been shown to have a mineral content several times higher than that which obtains in the inadequate food eaten by modernized primitives and the people of our modernized cultures
connoisseurs of geologic form,
Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.
In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
Lunar Geology Rocks.
Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.
Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.
It's mined, I whisper. That explains everything.
Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns into pearls!
I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.
The mine owners do not find the gold ...
The magic of property turns sand to gold.
Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.
Only a thin steel ring that cut the rocks in half. The rocks went on into the depth, unchanged. They began
A diamond is a chunk of coal that is made good under pressure.
If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.
Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Gold is found in the deep rough soil, so go for gold
It's common knowledge that shiny rocks are preferred among human females.
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
sparkling diamond in my future.
Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.
And the rest is rust and stardust.
Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.
Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.
It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
What kind of love would drive a man for miles through solid rock?
The alternative is to locate large deposits of specifically what we need, and extract it in bulk from the earth."
"That's mining," said the Drip. "There is a twenty-third century legend that youth was conscripted to work in mines. Anyhow, all young people were known as miners at one period.
And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?
There are few substance to which it yields interest, when it is considered how very intimately the knowledge and properties and uses of iron is connected with human civilization.
Salt is so common, so easy to obtain, and so inexpensive that we have forgotten that from the beginning of civilization until about 100 years ago, salt was one of the most sought-after commodities in human history.
Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.
In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.
All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.
Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.
Not a stone but has its history.
(A) jewel with a little dirt on it is still a jewel
The mortality of those who dig minerals is very great, and women who marry men of this sort marry again and again. According to Agricola, at the mines in the Carpathian mountains, women have been known to marry seven times.
My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don't, and that's what makes them more precious.
Within this Mine two Stones of old were found, Were this the Ancients called Holy Ground; Who knew their Value, Power and Extent, And Nature how with Nature to Ferment for these if you Ferment with Natural Gold or Silver, their hid Treasures they unfold.
What is Gornite? Why can't you heat it? Will it make you laugh? - I hope so
screw the diamonds, they're just dirt with an attitude.
One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles from earthly streams.
Stones of protection; amethyst, emerald, turquoise, lapis lazuli, and a male ruby.
crystals that stung your
Hydrated copper aluminum phosphate - Turquoise.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
The body is the substance of the stone.
The obstinate miner
of the void
exploits
his fertile mine
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.