1. “Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined.
2. Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore.
3. Man puts an end to darkness; he searches to the farthest reaches for ore in gloom and blackest darkness.
4. He cuts open a shaft far from dwellings, in places forgotten by feet. Far from other people, they dangle back and forth.
5. The earth, from which food comes, is transformed as by fire;
6. a place whose rocks are sapphires, its dust contains gold.
7. No bird of prey knows the path; nor falcon’s eye has seen it.
8. Proud beasts have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed there.