At the enormous oil sand strip mine, shovel cranes drop 100-ton loads of sand into 400-ton dump trucks.

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In Season 2, the show reversed those proportions, emphasizing arcs above episodes, in order to chronicle the black-humor ballad of Mags, who killed a man, tried to adopt his daughter, and forged a canny bargain with a corporation that wanted to strip-mine her land.

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Investors in small cap stocks are much like talent agents who mine the Sunset Strip for up and coming bands.

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