Before the late 19th century, diamonds were mined from rivers and other above-ground deposits.
The WGC report estimated that production increases the above-ground stock at a rate of 1.7% per year.
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On the flip side, above-ground bunkers, rather than those built underground, are often handsomely proportioned, neoclassical structures.
But its underlying bedrock makes it expensive to bury vulnerable above-ground power lines.
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As conceived, the MOAB was to be used against large formations of troops and equipment or against hardened above-ground bunkers.
Instead of above-ground tombstones, the park uses flat, engraved markers for grave sites, so from afar all you can see are grassy hills.
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For example, the sorts of above-ground activity that might have been detected by spy satellites were masked as part of an agricultural project.
Cesium-137 has a radioactive half-life of about 30 years, and traces of the isotope still persist from above-ground nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s and '60s.
Twelve-year-old Jordan Rock(ph) thinks cemeteries are creepy, but he walked anyway among the weathered, above-ground crypts in one of New Orleans' oldest cemeteries.
Kiesling created the concept of the above-ground storm shelter after a tornado swept through Lubbock, Texas, in 1970, killing 26 people and demolishing scores of homes.
Flying characters tend to shoot past or careen off of buildings when they gets too close, and I could only snatch above-ground gold bricks after multiple passes.
Above-ground storm shelters are easy to make accessible to those who are physically challenged, "and I would say that accessibility is a very important element, " Kiesling said.
With the extent of damage to the above-ground systems yet to be understood by Cliffs, the raw coal which is mined will be stockpiled at the mine-site.
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In the two years before the storm, Mr. Dorman said, he and his wife had remodeled a bathroom, put in an above-ground pool and renovated their kitchen.
The crash happened just before 5 p.m. on an above-ground track on the Red Line in the District of Columbia near the border with Takoma Park, Maryland.
The options for shelters are many: above-ground, below-ground, mounted in the garage, on the patio, on a poured slab or even in a space carved out beneath the slab.
"It's a tough question, " said Kiesling, a civil engineering professor at Texas Tech University who has spent his life studying tornadoes and developing above-ground storm shelters to protect against them.
They said the child drowned in the Anthonys' above-ground pool on July 16, and that Casey Anthony and her father, George Anthony, panicked upon finding her there and covered up the death.
Property developer Euroboden GmbH next year aims to complete a smaller conversion of an above-ground bunker in Munich's Ungererstrasse, which is set to become office space, three apartments and a penthouse loft.
At Nicolas Feuillatte, by contrast, visitors see the giant stainless steel vats in which the wine is blended, and the above-ground temperature-controlled storerooms, where specially commissioned works of modern art are displayed.
The building is unique in the sense that no one else has tried to build something in Cupertino resembling an above-ground version of the CERN accelerator and surround it with a freshly minted forest.
There have been some minor instances of hydraulic fracturing fluids reaching non-drinking groundwater, but these occurred due to factors such as above-ground pipe leaks that have nothing to do with the hydraulic fracturing process itself.
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Most RPGs these days basically ignore level design altogether, crafting open and often lovely environments and fairly linear, unimaginative dungeons, as though this coupling of above-ground openness and bel0w-ground linearity will result in something akin to diversity.
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"We had just finished our first day on the subway, " Mr. Fleischner said of the storm surge that devastated the film's above-ground Rockaway locations, "pretty much demolished" the director's own home and knocked out train service for weeks.
Though it was intended as a temporary shelter, its amenities were impressive: some 600 above-ground doors from which someone can enter the underground city from, 15, 000 ventilation ducts to provide fresh air, as well as multiple wineries, cellars and a complex network of passages, tunnels, and corridors.
The specialist platform - 75m (246ft) above ground - for the peregrine adults was set up by the Hawk and Owl Trust on the cathedral's spire.
Warren Buffett, one of the world's richest investors, says the total amount of gold in the world - the gold above ground, that is - could fit into a cube with sides of just 20m (67ft).
The crash - the worst in the 33 years of the Metro system - happened above ground between Fort Totten and Takoma at 1700 local time (2200 BST).
It weighed about 10 tonnes when it entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke apart 30-50km (20-30 miles) above ground, according to Russia's Academy of Sciences, releasing several kilotons of energy - the equivalent of a small atomic weapon.
Further accumulations of 20cm or more are likely on ground above 250-300m, with blizzard conditions at times.
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