The 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster began on Monday April 5, 2010 - the last bodies found on Friday.

That morning I read a psychic medium in Buffalo, NY. Before we started the reading, a black bird flew by my window. I told her it meant I would be hearing about a death, and the energies seemed ominous. She got the name "Jack". We both paused and thought about who that could be. The first image that came to mind was a man in West Virginia named Jack who became a daily reader of Ellie's World back in the 1990's. We had lots of laughs in those days.

Being a city girl in this lifetime, I have no connection to the lives and times of those who work in the mines, often filled with peril and pain, the risk of death all around. Yet mining has always been part of humanity's journey.

According to Zecharia Sitchen's "Earth Chronicles", aliens from Nibiru landed on Earth, colonized it, mining the planet for gold and other minerals, establishing a spaceport in what today is the Iraq-Iran area, the Cradle of Civilization, and lived in a kind of idealistic society as a small colony. They genetically interfered in our indigenous DNA to create a slave-race to work their mines, farms, and other enterprises in Sumer. They created Humans, Homo Sapiens, through genetic manipulation with themselves and ape man Homo Erectus. The Great Flood allegedly was an attempt to destroy the slave races of humanity by the Nibiruans because they had rebelled against their Nibiruan Gods, Enlil and Enki, who were in a heated dispute over whether to destroy or preserve the slave races. As with all myths, these gods are also supposed to return one day, but don't count on it. This myth takes us to Sumerian Gods creating a biogenetic experiment called humans.

Mining the Moon -- I have met people who tell me that lunar mining has been going on for years, with the help of aliens, though I have no tangible proof. Remote viewing to the dark side of the moon reveals that they are correct, with underground bases linked to the Greys who have interacted in humanity's history for decades as observers and as part of their own biogenetic experiments, not linked with the fuel resources we use on Earth. More tales of the rapid development, through reverse engineering, of current technologies in all fields.

As always, references to "The Lion" are found. "The Cave" is a metaphor of The Mind or Human Consciousness.

Evidence supports that Mining of stone and metal has been around since pre-historic times. Since the beginning of civilization, people have used stone, ceramics and, later, metals found on or close to the Earth's surface. These were used to manufacture early tools and weapons, for example, high quality flint found in northern France and southern England were used to create flint tools. Flint mines have been found in chalk areas where seams of the stone were followed underground by shafts and galleries. The mines at Grimes Graves are especially famous, and like most other flint mines, are Neolithic in origin (ca 4000 BC-ca 3000 BC). Other hard rocks mined or collected for axes included the greenstone of the Langdale axe industry based in the English Lake District.

The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland. At this site, which by radiocarbon dating proves the mine to be about 43,000 years old, paleolithic humans mined mineral hematite, which contained iron and was ground to produce the red pigment ochre. Mines of a similar age in Hungary are believed to be sites where Neanderthals may have mined flint for weapons and tools.

Ancient Egyptians mined malachite at Maadi. At first, Egyptians used the bright green malachite stones for ornamentations and pottery. Later, between 2,613 and 2,494 BC, large building projects required expeditions abroad to the area of Wadi Maghara in order "to secure minerals and other resources not available in Egypt itself." Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at "Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites" on the Sinai Peninsula and at Timna. Mining in Egypt occurred in the earliest dynasties, and the gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive of any in Ancient Egypt, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus. He mentions that fire-setting was one method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of earliest known maps. They crushed the ore and ground it to a fine powder before washing the powder for the gold dust.

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