Georgius Agricola Quote

There is no compensation which should be thought great enough to equalize the extreme dangers [in mining] to safety and life.


Translated by Herbert Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover, De Re Metattica, Book I (p. 6), The Mining magazine, 1912


There is no compensation which should be thought great enough to equalize the extreme dangers [in mining] to safety and life.

There is no compensation which should be thought great enough to equalize the extreme dangers [in mining] to safety and life.

There is no compensation which should be thought great enough to equalize the extreme dangers [in mining] to safety and life.

There is no compensation which should be thought great enough to equalize the extreme dangers [in mining] to safety and life.