Georgius Agricola Quote

Of all ways whereby great wealth is acquired by good and honest means, none is more advantageous than mining; for although from fields which are well tilled (not to mention other things) we derive rich yields, yet we obtain richer products from mines; in fact, one mine is often much more beneficial to us than many fields.


Translated by Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, De Re Metallica, Preface (p. xxv), The Mining magazine, 1912


Of all ways whereby great wealth is acquired by good and honest means, none is more advantageous than mining; for although from fields which are well ...

Of all ways whereby great wealth is acquired by good and honest means, none is more advantageous than mining; for although from fields which are well ...

Of all ways whereby great wealth is acquired by good and honest means, none is more advantageous than mining; for although from fields which are well ...

Of all ways whereby great wealth is acquired by good and honest means, none is more advantageous than mining; for although from fields which are well ...