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“In a cavern, in a canyon, excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner forty-nirier, and his daughter Clementine”
— Percy Montrose, 1880
Minerals and precious metals, vital materials and mediums of exchange for transactions for five millennia or more, are sought after and fought over the world over.
We romance and covet stones and shiny pieces of metal, oft times raising their discovery and acquisition to the pinnacle of life’s ambitions. As with most fighting and some seeking, the human and environmental effects often linger. Over time, these effects may outweigh whatever intrinsic value was locked up in those oh, so, valuable deposits in earth or
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