Quotes About Mining

Some miners' wives take in washing and make more money than their husbands do. In every gold rush from this one to the Klondike, the suppliers and service industries will gather up the dust while ninety-nine per cent of the miners go home with empty pokes.

In other words, the Anthropocene and its companion concept of climate change should not be seen merely as meteorological and geological events but as a set of political and conceptual disturbances that emerged in the 1960s—the radical environmental movement, Indigenous opposition to mining, the concept of Gaia and the whole earth—and these disturbances are now accelerating the problem of how late liberalism will govern difference and markets globally.

The story of mountaintop mining - why it happens, and what its consequences are - is still new to most Americans. They have no idea that their country's physical legacy - the purple mountain majesties that are America - is being destroyed at the rate of several ridgetops a week, by three million pounds of explosives every day.

Still, who knew how the old mountain took retribution for having its insides clawed out.

Frances is a diamond, passed from filthy paw to paw but never diminished. The men who handle her can leave no mark because her worth is far above them. Hard, helpless, buried. You can hear it in her voice and see it in her eyes, she is waiting for a strong and fearless miner to go way down and rescue her up to the surface where she can shine for all she's worth.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Mr. Brooker, though out of work for two years, was a miner by trade, but he and his wife had been keeping shops of various kinds as a side line all their lives. At one time they had had a pub, but they had lost their licence for allowing gambling on the premises. I doubt whether any of their businesses had ever paid; they were the kind of people who run a business chiefly in order to have something to grumble about.

We need to work together to support common-sense solutions to establish and maintain regulatory certainty and predictability for the mining industry and reduce excessive, duplicative, and expensive permitting delays.

I was raised here in Logan County, where I was blessed to be in a family that had over 200 years of United Mine Workers of America experience.

I come from a tiny mining town in the rainforest in an island at the end of the world. My grandparents were illiterate.

Every time you warm yourself in front of a hot coal stove, remember the coal miners in the cold dark corridors and pray for them!

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

had begun to put the mining on a scientific basis as early as I could.

Yo estaba en la creencia de que un mecanismo de gobierno como el de un Estado acabaría con la racha de prosperidad y quería largarme de allí. Pensaba que las acciones mineras que poseía valdrían pronto cien mil dólares, y si alcanzaban esa cotización antes que se aprobase la Constitución, las vendería y me pondría a cubierto de la rutina financiera que el cambio de gobierno iba a traer sobre el país.

cuanto más profunda está la veta de carbón, más inflamable es éste. Sin embargo, cuanto más pforundo, cuanto más duro es el carbón, más necesario se torna el uso de explosivos.

Por ese motivo la minería era un arte y una ciencia, se dijo; porque los mineros morían jóvenes, como los artistas.

La verdad es que un minero que no piensa que está trabajando en su propia sepultura es un tonto.

In Orissa, where it is mining bauxite, Vedanta is financing a university. In these creeping, innocuous ways mining corporations enter our imaginations: the Gentle Giants Who Really Care. It's called CSR, corporate social responsibility.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

And no power on earth could tell whether their blankly indifferent eyes were shutters protecting hidden treasures at the bottom of shafts no longer to be mined, or were merely gaping holes of the parasite's emptiness never to be filled.

I gave them most of the options, but left out Bitcoin mining. Because not only would the explanation of why that uses huge amount of power have taken about three hours, but also because I was a bit hazy on the details myself.

The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.

I was shaped by a pit environment and the Second World War. My playground was on the pit tip at Clay Cross and I grew up with that mining background. My father was a miner and my granddad was a miner, and I would say three out of ten on the street where I was born were working in the pits.

Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.