If you would invite me into your life,We together will end all strife,As peace is mine to give and yours to share.
Metals, to begin with, both the hard kind and the fusible kind, which are extracted by mining, and also that kind which is now known only by name but was more than a name then, there being mines of it in many places of the island - I mean 'orichalcum,' which was the most precious of the metals then known, except gold.
The Sumerian texts tell the story of the Anunnaki, beings who came to Earth, possibly from another dimension, to mine gold.
Tellinger explains that the Anunnaki possessed advanced knowledge of genetic manipulation and possibly created a species, the Adamu (similar to the biblical Adam), to perform labor in the gold mines.
Zecharia Sitchin, translator of the Sumerian cuneiform tablets, writes that the Anunnaki arrived on Earth about 450,000 years ago to mine gold.
The Ngwenya Mine is estimated to be around 42,000 years old, making it one of the oldest mines known to humans.
4 pages state 42,000 years old for the age of the Ngwenya Mine.
The Ngwenya Mine is estimated to be around 43,000 years old, making it one of the oldest mines known to humans.
41,000 BCE): Little People; The Ngwenya Mine
The Great Orme mines in Wales show large-scale copper mining about 4,000 years ago, in the Bronze Age.
The journey also includes explorations of ancient mines, monasteries, and lands rich in natural resources.
Electric Trams: In the copper mines near Lake Superior, Atlanteans use electric trams to transport people through a complex system of galleries and tunnels, showing their mastery of electric-powered transport for industrial purposes.
Tempered Copper Tools: The text mentions tools and instruments made from tempered copper, such as a knife-like tool given to Zailm during his visit to the copper mines.
Copper Mines (Lake Superior Region): Copper mines located near present-day Lake Superior, used by the Atlanteans.
Time will satisfy thy curiosity, my reader, as it did mine.
The mines of native metals, as gold, silver, copper, and so on, were valuable then, as now, requiring no processing save smelting.
California - A state in the United States where the narrator became a successful mine-owner.
Several months of city residence at length found me determined to acquire all the geological knowledge that I could, for it was a study which I believed Incal had directed me to make, as also a knowledge of mines and of practical mineralogy.
The influence which I hoped to gain through such publications might lead to my becoming Superintendent-General of Mines, a political place not second to any other appointive office.
As an aside, I may remark that those studies then selected, and afterwards mastered, led my nature to assume a bent which resulted, not many yews ago, in my becoming a mine-owner in the State of California-and a successful one, too.
Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.
In heaven--the gods became afraid of the water-spout, and--sought a refuge; they mounted up to the heaven of Anu.--The gods were stretched out motionless, pressing one against another like dogs.--Ishtar wailed like a child, the great goddess pronounced her discourse:--"Here is humanity returned into mud, and--this is the misfortune that I have announced in the presence of the gods.--So I announced the misfortune in the presence of the gods,--for the evil I announced the terrible [chastisement] of men who are mine.--I am the mother who gave birth to men, and--like to the race of fishes, there they are filling the sea;--and the gods, by reason of that--which the archangels of the abyss are doing, weep with me."--The gods on their seats were seated in tears,--and they held their lips closed, [revolving] future things.
Africa was known for its gold mines, above all in Nubia (today’s Sudan) and Ethiopia.
Some link the Faynan mines to the time of King Solomon.
No silver mine is named, but the work of getting silver out of the ground is clearly known.
(For mines in other times and places, see mines.)
This page collects the mines and underground workshops named in Greek myth and history, with the ancient text behind each one.
Its silver mines are history rather than myth, but they decided the war with Persia.
The revenues from the mines at Laurium had brought great wealth into the Athenians' treasury, and when each man was to receive ten drachmae for his share, Themistocles persuaded the Athenians to make no such division but to use the money to build two hundred ships for the war, that is, for the war with Aegina.
Ovid says nothing about mines.
The link between the golden touch and the rich mines of Phrygia is a later reading of the legend.
Its mines were famous in antiquity and their wealth helped the rise of Macedonia.
keeping on his right the great and high Pangaean range, where the Pierians and Odomanti and especially the Satrae have gold and silver mines.
Close by, near Lake Prasias, was the mine "from which Alexander later drew a daily revenue of a talent of silver" (Herodotus 5.17).
Some retellings make it a place where the souls of the condemned mine metals for the gods.
For mines in Hebrew scripture, see Mines in the Bible.
Wilgie Mia, also known as Thuwarri Thaa (‘red ochre hole’), is an ancient ochre mine located in the Weld Range of Western Australia.
Wilgie Mia is the largest and deepest historical Aboriginal ochre mine in Australia.
Situated on a hillside in the Weld Range, near the town of Cue, the mine was worked to a depth of 20 metres.
Despite this, the mine continues to produce ochre as a commercial pigment.
Lapis lazuli is found in limestone in the Kokcha River valley of Badakhshan province in north-eastern Afghanistan, where the Sar-i Sang mine deposits have been worked for more than 6,000 years.
I felt, in taking counsel of my mother, that her belief that I could not work the mine alone was based on actuality.
I know that the proviso in the contract declaring that the whole mine which they, my partners, worked in the then current year was the inalienable property of Zailm Numinos, was all that prevented the intended robbery.
I would have had, in the event of a difference arising between us, no necessity to prove how I became owner of the mine; no claim that some person other than myself was the discoverer would avail the would-be defrauders, for whosoever was the first to find the lode, the fact remained that I was the owner, and possession in this event meant every advantage through the law.
I knew in later times that the laws of Poseid made every mine a tithepayer to the empire, and that a mine worked without acknowledgment of this legal lien was liable to confiscation.
It was apparent, also, that if my partners had not allowed themselves to be swayed by avariciousness into keeping secret the whole agreement, and also by working in the mine, thus rendering themselves participators in an infraction of the law, that they would have become the legally recognized owners, simply through furnishing information concerning my acts to the nearest governmental agent.
The wealth generated from these mines contributed to the prosperity of the Thracian tribes and later to the rise of the city of Amphipolis, a major ancient city in the region.
The mines on the mountain were so productive that they attracted the attention of various powers, including the Persians and later the Macedonians.
Philip exploited the gold mines of Pangaion to finance his military campaigns and to consolidate his power over Greece.
The wealth generated from these mines allowed him to build a formidable army, which eventually led to the establishment of the Macedonian Empire.
From its ancient gold and silver mines that shaped the course of Greek history to its role as a sacred site in both pagan and Christian traditions, the mountain holds a unique place in the cultural and historical landscape of Greece.
According to the passage, an organized society maintained orchards, plantations, homes, and large cattle herds across the Mississippi plains and obtained copper and other metals from mines in the northern lake region.
Your God is human; mine is celestial.
Mine workers, diggers of mine, were not allowed to use metal tools.19:04You were not allowed to use a metal object to dig for gold; you had to use a stone out of respect.19:20How does the respect come in with stone rather than metal?
Mine workers had to cook food with stone.21:20Crucibles.
You say the star people landed in Africa.31:22They started the mines and enslaved the great people whom they found there.31:36There's that place on the border of Botswana, the Toledo Hills.31:44That's right, yes.
Evidence points to a Copper Age in America, particularly around Lake Superior, where ancient mines suggest extensive copper extraction long before the development of bronze.