Miner Pillows

Mine Host.

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

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!'

'There! another batch of clean coal.'

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

'I think you're following too close!'

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

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

'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."

'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.'

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

"He works in our processed foods division."

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

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

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

Men from the mining districts talking about money

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

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

"We don't serve minors."

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

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

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

Miners

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

"...These are chicken nuggets."

'I hope you're a member of the miners' union.'

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

Strip mine view

'Bats.' (Baseball bats in a cave).

'I'm going to fall off my perch again. Anything to kill the boredom!'

'I didn't ask you to help me when it was $90 an ounce, and I didn't ask you to help me when it was $110 an ounce. But when it's $400 an ounce...'

"Hei ho, hei ho, to the lithium mine we go..."

Current Environmental Status, Earth.