Quotes About Mining

Men dig tons of earth to find an ounce of gold.

The Philippines has vast minerals that are still untapped. It has one of the world's largest deposits of gold, nickel, copper and chromite. Through responsible mining, we intend to generate more revenues from the extraction of these resources.

Satellites record data in different parts of the light spectrum that we can't see. And it's that information that allows satellites to be so powerful in terms of looking at things like vegetation health, finding different kinds of geology that may indicate an oil deposit or some kind of mineralogical deposit that can be mined.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business

But he also saw himself as a geognost, a natural scientist, who, as he put it, had come 'to an entirely new land, and dark stars'. The mining industry, it seemed to him, was not a science, but an art.

I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons. But the past resists that. It holds too much evidence of too many things.

The biblical text should be studied in the context of the development of its story and not just mined for statements isolated from the events they portray.

Perhaps a quarter of meteoroid impacts have led to potentially profitable deposits—at least half of which have already been exploited.

Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves.

A good prospector, a serious one, who does not want to tell lies either to others or himself, should not trust in appearances, because this rock, which seems dead, is in fact full of deception: sometimes it changes its nature even while you're digging, likes certain snakes change color so you won't see them.

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I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

I grew up in the mining village of Dudley in Northumberland. My father, who was also called Robson Green, worked down the pits.

Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.

The artistic and gay communities typically are early trend spotters and excel at mining the potential of up-and-coming neighborhoods.

Only by much searching and mining, are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being, if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.

Later, some kind of animal—Gloyd described it to him as a six-legged mammal, half mouth—vaulted from a burrow and tore into one of the injured. It took five exhausted sentries to slay the beast. One of Devore's mining specialists cast a chunk of the creature's body into the campfire and sampled a piece. She vomited blood and died within heartbeats.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

It is about moving from ideas about merely being sustainable to ones that include regenerating areas devastated by agriculture, mining, and other destructive activities. It is about revolution. The transition from a death economy to a life economy is truly about a change in consciousness — a consciousness revolution.

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.