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Mind your mind, soon, you will mine from it.
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.
Prospecting - Find the man with the problem.
People find gold in fields, veins, river beds, and pockets. Whichever, it takes work to get it out.
Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.
We mine our greatest value through the process of proactive thinking
An unskilled middle-aged man can work in the mines, and it pays well.
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds.
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
I like being outside and working with the elements. The elemental aspects of it. The physicality of it.
Going down the old mine with a transistor radio.
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.
Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.
Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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.
It takes patience and perseverance to discover precious jewel of greatness in a landmine of dirt. And when found, it is worth it
The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.
Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
You can't mine coal without machine guns.
The eradication of anti-personnel mines around the world is one of the most important tasks facing the international community.
I come to a world of iron to make a world of gold.
Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.
You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.
What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.
And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.
Twenty years ago, the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500 either dug something out of the ground or turned a natural resource (iron ore or oil) into something you could hold. Today, fewer than half of the companies on the list do that. The rest make unseemly profits by trafficking in ideas.
Why are you so enchanted by this world
when a mine of gold lies within you?
Here's my life - I have to mine it, farm it, trade it, tenant it, and when the lease is up it cannot be renewed.
Search, discover, innovate, know, find... keep looking.
You gotta dig through the shit to get to the gold.
I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.
I am skilled now, at casting iron To make a hardened bed for my heavy world
I am an industry.
The frivolous work of polished idleness.
Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.
My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.
I like to go rock scrambling.
Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.
The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.
A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job
In the ensuing discussion at the Manila workshop, I compared the search for a responsible mine to the pursuit of a mythical beast that people believe in because they have heard stories of its existence, even though no one claims to have seen it.18
My training and my inclination is to invent.
Together we have given the world the possibility of one day living on a truly mine-free planet.
A society must create lots of sunshine for its miners as they need the sun most! And 'to be remembered, to be respected' is a good sunshine; 'safety in the mine' is a good sunshine!
The most exciting part of what I do is understanding the scale of what we don't know. There are just countless archaeological sites all over the world, and one of the most important and best ways of finding them is using digital technology.
Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.
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.
Mine your words as if digging for diamonds and gold.
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.
The Mill gets by going.
hand-crank sieve.
Even as technology becomes increasingly critical to the way we live our lives, power our world and defend our shores, the United States has allowed the production of minerals crucial in the creation of these advanced products to slide.
and send a big proportion to the minesweepers. Mrs Godden, the antique shop owner, says the two pleasure steamers, which used to call at Worthing, are now minesweeping.
I'm extraordinarily passionate about the idea of asteroid mining in the future. Asteroids out there, we know them from those that have fallen on the Earth, there is a class of asteroids, sub-class of nickel/iron asteroids, which are 50,000 times more enriched than Platinum mines on earth.
A mine-free world does not need to be a dream - together, we can make it a reality.
Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.
Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty.
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us, forgetting what supports industry.
[In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.
Writing is hard ... Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.
I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure
My father and brothers were coal miners.
A diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure
Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.
There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.
Were trying to dig up the roots of that big oak stump near the
I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill.
Forge in the smithy of your soul.
Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves.
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.
When I wake up in the morning, and I go to the piano, and there's a blank sheet of paper in front of me, by the end of the day, that could be a gold mine. You really do need to wake up and expect that the world is your oyster because it very well may be.
Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined.
herding cats and shoveling smoke.
data mining is the act of digging into large amounts of raw data to discover unique nontrivial useful patterns.
One day the "Good Morning Everyone" team announces that the government of the Dominican Republic has offered to bring all thirty-three miners and their families to a relaxing resort in that Caribbean island nation.
Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.
Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
When I was young, I went looking for gold in California.
How many diamonds can you retrieve from one single mine; there has to be an end somewhere. I don't see any natural fast bowler after me.
Working in the tea fields under a beautiful sunshine is the dream of all the miners.
What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? If you're not, you're wasting away.
Since I was a kid, I liked construction.
Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.
This year - a factory of semiconductors. Next year - a factory of whole conductors!
To understand the future properly, it's crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
If you are digging for excellent or suggestive renderings, this is among the richer mines.
A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore.
I don't want to ever minimize the danger of working in a mine.
All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.
There's no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down. If you leave that to dig another well, all the first effort is wasted and there is no proof you won't hit rock again. (52)
The mine owners did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!
I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping.
I work with gold that holds history, diamonds that see the future, and rubies that long for love.
For a century or more, the "civilized" world regarded as a manifestation of its wealth metal dug from deep in the ground, refined at great labor, and transported great distances to be buried again in elaborate vaults deep under the ground,
Whoa!" Steve exclaimed upon walking into the inner sanctum of the diamond mine. There were diamonds everywhere.