Mining
Minor mining operations have occurred historically throughout the region, both for precious metals including gold, silver, lead, and copper, and for construction materials. However the only commercial operations to continue at the present day are the Stockmans Quarry at Pialligo which excavates Camp Hill Sandstone, and a large Quarry on Mount Mugga Mugga which excavates Mugga Mugga Porphyry for use as construction gravel e.g. for road surfaces, and in concrete.
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Famous quotes containing the word mining:
“In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)