Top 250 Mining Quotes & Sayings

Mining asteroids will ultimately benefit humanity on and off the Earth in a multitude of ways.

I just felt like I was mining Dan Brown's work.

I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.

Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

It's a mining town in lotus land.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

We should make innovations in coal-mining and metallurgical industries in particular so as to revitalize the overall economy of the country.

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal.

You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

I came from a poor Pennsylvania coal mining family and the only way I was going to get an education was through an athletic scholarship.

Every time the Tories get a bit of power, they rip off all the things I love... The mining industry. Milk.

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.

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

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?

The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.

As a songwriter, I was always mining my own depths, which were filled with confusion and darkness.

I think we are, certainly in the Department of Justice, a fan of some of the data-mining techniques that will allow us to more effectively zero in on fraud.

You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.

[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

Those organisations, al-Qaeda being the first one, have all settled in areas full of mining and oil resources or in geostrategic zones. They settled in Afghanistan which underground is filled with oil and lithium. North Mali is filled with mining resources (uranium). It is essential to question the impact and role of some international players that create or let those organisations settle there.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

Opening up of the coal mining and mineral sector at the same time has been a very positive step towards self-reliance.

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

Mining is one of the most dangerous jobs out there, and it shapes and crafs a particular type of person.

The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.

I started a private equity fund and we invest in energy, mining, agriculture kind of things in Africa.

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

With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.

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

Today, a large part of Peru's revenues come from mining. Many big mining companies only pay income tax, but they extract minerals, they pollute the water. They don't give any form of compensation to the regions where those minerals are extracted and where they do the damage, forcing the state to help those regions. What my party Gana Peru is stating is that the mining companies will have to pay that compensation. That is called a royalty.

Isn't the purpose of bitcoin mining simply to get rich - or not, as the case may be? Well, at 21, we are less concerned with bitcoin as a financial instrument and more interested in bitcoin as a protocol - and particularly in the industrial uses of bitcoin enabled by embedded mining.

Programming today is the opposite of diamond mining. In diamond mining you dig up a lot of dirt to find a small bit of value. With programming you start with the value, the real intention, and bury it in a bunch of dirt.

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.

I remember at one time there were 44 mining MPs.

Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings.

China is taking over Brazil, and that is worrying. They are investing in mining, agriculture, energy, ports, and airports.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

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.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.

Apartheid was baked hard in the mining industry because that's where it originated.

We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.