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Erica said:
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Trying to get back into the habit of reading and paying attention via short story. I WILL finish this book and not add it to the fifteen book stack of 2024 partially read books.
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“The best place to find a new mine is next door to an old mine.”
― Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
― Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World
“There is no thrill like the thrill of discovery; no life like the life of a mining camp in the days of its youth. Nevada had known them in full and overflowing measure. The salt of the sea in the blood of a sailor is but a weak and insipid condiment compared with the solution of cyanide, sage and silicate in the blood of the prospector.”
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“Mining is the art of exploiting mineral deposits at a profit. An unprofitable mine is fit only for the sepulcher of a dead mule.”
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“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
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“To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain: but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world, the mossy covering which obstructs his view, and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone, is no less than a serious subject of regret.”
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