Increasing supply isn't easy: mines are troublesome, expensive and time-consuming to develop, while a paucity of metallurgists in the west, Abraham says, is cause for concern.
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It would have been easy to mine Garland's too-short life for bitchery and camp and readily accessible tears.
The excitement of a new N.B.A. season makes it easy to mine surprises from small sample sizes.
These ores are generally easy to mine but are of relatively poor quality; ores of better quality occur in the northeastern part of the province.
"I think my track record in Pennsylvania proves that I did not go easy on mine operators," Mr. Stickler said in a conference call to reporters.
Mr. Curnutt singled out New York State tax officials for not using that data, even though New York defines income almost exactly the same way the federal government does, making it easy to mine the I.R.S. reports.
"It's easy to mine the land and fish the seas and get rich," says Thakur Singh Powdyel, Bhutan's minister of education, who has become one of the most eloquent spokespeople for GNH.
From the 17th century on, the site was an easy gold mine for archaeologists, collectors and art dealers in search of antiquities to draw, to sell or take home (you can still see on one of the villa walls Piranesi's signature, scrawled in red pencil during a drawing expedition in 1741).
Sites like MySpace, Friendster and Bebo, on the other hand, were especially easy to mine for private data, Patton said.
