Miner Gifts

Mine Host.

'Apparently it was quite a nice country before the mining industry took hold.'

'There! another batch of clean coal.'

The birth of the data mining industry (circa 1880): 'I ain't sure what it is, Clyde, but there's a vein of it as wide as yer Aunt Tillie!'

'I think you're following too close!'

'We're getting closer - That's a goldfish.'

'There's no need for confusion. Part 935 of Mining Regulation 823, Section 323 in Article L clearly states . . . '

Either we're going to be very rich or we're being exposed to so much radiation that we won't last that long.

'No, you can't drain the spaghettit in it!'

'Don't be discouraged. Gravel is $3 an ounce.'

"No coal here, either - but you never know until you look."

"He works in our processed foods division."

'At least this means we won't need a coal mining search.'

'Forty years out of touch with civilization, but with this $5000 worth of gold, we'll live like kings for the rest of our lives.'

"I asked you to send me over a prospectus!"

"I told you we were going down too deep!"

Miners

Men from the mining districts talking about money

"...These are chicken nuggets."

"We don't serve minors."

'What do you mean, you forgot about the coalmining search?'

"Cobalt? Titanium? What I'm looking for is lithium, columbium and yttrium."

"Trevor left the pit ten years ago.. but he likes to keep his hands in."

"It looks like it's an eye bank."

"My granddaughter wants me to stop blowing the tops off mountains."

"When you say the meek will inherit the earth, does that include the mineral rights?"

"If it's all the same to you chief, I'd like to work from home tomorrow."

"Have you come across any of the rate earths - praseodymium, gadolinium, dysprosum - stuff like that?"

Ideas that failed: In an attempt to make mining regulation easier to understand, lawyers wrote pop-up manuals.

Mine Shaft of Love.

'If you hate going to the salt mines every day, can't you ask for a transfer to pepper?'

'Here, we've unearthed a layer of granite, a layer of calcite, and a layer of erudite.'

Colliers and the Coal Districts

Two coal miners reading a train timetable

"Of course I hope to find gold. But my real goal is spiritual growth and inner peace."