Word: grubbing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several reasons for changing his mind. In the folds of Mexico's hills lie great deposits of antimony, manganese, mercury, tungsten, fluor spar, molybdenum. But big producers have never worked them, have concentrated on gold, silver, zinc, copper. The other metals have been left to the Indians, who grub them out of the ground, trot down to the market centres with a pat of tungsten, a tin of mercury whenever they need money for tortillas or pulque. The sales to Japan helped prime small native industry...