Chorus:

One of the world's biggest industries

A vast amount of minerals and history
A process that's been around since the Earth's birth
It's basically taking minerals out of the Earth

The minerals found are so bright and blinding
It's a job for a man, no room for whining
And it keeps on getting bigger, not so surprising

What am I talking about?
M-I-N MINING


Verse 1:

It's time to start a new chapter

Go flip the page
10,000 years ago, in the Neolithic Age,
Cavemen were mining for minerals like Nickel

It was as easy as cake
Despite the long wait
These men went on a mineral resource shopping spree

Resources had divisions that were divided into three
First was metallic from Gold to Uranium
Second was non-metallic from Calcium to Magnesium

Then the last is used for powering our tools
It's none other than the mineral fuels
Powers our machines to help reach our goals

This ranges from Petroleum to Coal
How do they get these? They use a lot of tactics
The most basic one of them is using Mathematics

This is Trigonometry
So in other words it's not anymore a mystery
So we can move on to its history


(Repeat Chorus)


Verse 2

Wanna travel back in time? Let's go!

The Neolithic Period 10,000 years ago
Where primitive men used to mine for Nickel


It was easy as cake straightforward as a pickle
Then fast forward by 7,000 years
When the Egyptian bad boys were making a tear

Then they started to organize mining to separate the men from the boys
They mined for Gold, Silver and Turquoise
Then the Greeks and Romans got their own take on mining

They made various techniques and eventually defined it
The Middle Ages arrived, and mining really beamed
From being labour-intensive, they leveled up to steam

And here's something you already knew
It spread to the land of the red, white, and blue
They dominated the game and no one could get in range

Or in other words, they brought the game change
The Philippines took a hand of it, and mining really helps our country survive
From the Royal Decree of 1837 to the Philippine Mining Act of 1995