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dragon eald uhtsceaða... hat ond hreohmod... Wæs þæs wyrmes wig / wide gesyne "old twilight-ravager ... hot and fierce-minded" ... "that worm's war was / widely seen" Smaug fiercely attacks Dwarves, Laketown: Gold-greedy dragon hordweard "treasure-guardian" Smaug watchfully sleeps on pile of treasure Provoking the dragon wæs ða gebolgen ...
The Homestake Mine was a deep underground gold mine (8,000 feet or 2,438 m) located in Lead, South Dakota. Until it closed in 2002 it was the largest and deepest gold mine in the Western Hemisphere . The mine produced more than forty million troy ounces (43,900,000 oz; 1,240,000 kg) of gold during its lifetime. [1] This is about 2,500 cubic ...
Kibali Gold Mine: 749,000 DR Congo [4] 7: Detour Lake Mine: 732,570 Canada [6] 8: Cortez Gold Mine: 731,700 United States [4] 9: Pueblo Viejo mine: 713,300 Dominican ...
Gold mining began at the site in 1936, but the rare earth deposits were not discovered until 1949 when prospectors in search of uranium noticed anomalously high radioactivity. [9] [3] Molybdenum Corporation of America bought most [10] of the mining claims, and began small-scale production in 1952. Mountain Pass mine, mill, shop & offices in 2010
A miner underground at Pumsaint gold mine, Wales; c. 1938 Landscape of Las Médulas, Spain, the result of hydraulic mining on a vast scale by the Ancient Romans. The exact date that humans first began to mine gold is unknown, but some of the oldest known gold artifacts were found in the Varna Necropolis in Bulgaria.
Earth Dragon may refer to: "Earth Dragon" is the literal English translation for the "Mogera wogura" (土竜 or コウベモグラ), the Japanese mole. Earth Dragon in the Chinese zodiac. Dilong, a Chinese dragon. Earth Dragon (Greyhawk), a deity in the Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game
In the latter days of the Third Age, this Kingdom under the Mountain holds one of the largest dwarvish treasure hoards in Middle-earth. [T 3] Dale, a town of Men built between the two southern spurs of Erebor, grew in harmony with the dwarves. [1] The Kingdom under the Mountain is founded by Thráin I the Old, who had discovered the Arkenstone ...
In Chinese mythology, dilong 地龍 "earth dragon" is one of many types of -long 龍 dragons such as shenlong 神龍 "divine dragon" and huanglong 黃龍 "Yellow Dragon".Since dì 地 "earth; land; soil; ground" semantically contrasts with tian 天 "heaven; sky" (e.g., tiandi 天地 "heaven and earth; universe", see Tiandihui), the dilong is paired with the tianlong 天龍 "heavenly dragon".