Mining Aficionado Gifts

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

"No gold - but lot's of silicon."

Shortly after, mines started using canaries as an early warning system.

Local rock claims to have been muse for Emily Dickinson poem "I'm that 'little stone' honest to goodness!"

"I don't care if it's more bouncy - it threatens the integrity of the game."

"So, Mr Canary, I see you have experience as a mine safety specialist..."

'Hold everything! -- The National Endowment for the Arts changed its mind!'

"And here is the very stone that finally enabled us to figure out what all those dogs and cats were saying."

"The bones were bad enough, but this is just ridiculous."

Santa Claus Poops on the Chimney of the world.

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

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

'Come to think of it son, there's not a single spot in this backyard I've not dug out sometime...'

Carl Wilhelm Scheele: "There was a great display of ores and minerals...I could not write with a molybdenite pencil."

Unfinished Masterpiece.

"Apparently he needed an emergency hernia operation shortly afterwards!"

'Try to become less emotional, Mr Stone!'

"Stop complaining, granite is in."

"I think the idea behind coin collecting is to get one of each kind, not all of the same kind!"

Deadwood 25 miles

Coal Liquefaction Plant...Liquefied Coal Gasification Plant

Gem & Mineral Show: "This looks promising."

"He is stingy. If he is giving gold it's only because prices have hit rock-bottom..."

Man with head in ground: 'I'm not burying my head in the sand, I'm doing the coal mining search myself.'

'The next phase in which we carve the stones ornately will cost a little more than the previous ones.'

'Isn't it great?!'

"Oh my god. She knows I schist my plants.

Archaeologists

'The Canary Died Again.'

"Yes, it was a bit stressful digging through all those bones, but it wasn't a cemetery, it was just the stash of an overzealous dog..."

"He's being retrained."

Ethelred the Unfinished.

Look Up.

Stonehenge. I hate resetting this thing for daylight savings!

'William and I dug up this little place just last week!'