If found, "it will be the world's eighth wonder, the world's largest statue, " he told BBC News Online.
All this has increased speculation about whether the world's eighth-biggest economy is already in recession.
The company already ranks as the world's eighth-largest producer (in terms of installed capacity) of wind turbine generators.
As insular Brazil--the world's eighth-largest economy--opens to the globe, other family-owned companies there are selling their operations wholesale to foreign firms.
The race is receiving a lot of early attention because California, the world's eighth-largest economy and America's biggest, remains in a dire condition.
On August 5th Chile's CSAV, which runs the world's eighth-largest container fleet, became the first shipper to make a container-derivative trade (with Morgan Stanley).
ECONOMIST: Are container derivatives poised for bumper growth?
The company has been trying to build up Charles de Gaulle, the world's eighth-biggest airport, as a rival to London's Heathrow and to Frankfurt.
ECONOMIST: The aftershocks from a collapsed airport terminal
But not for the first time in Europe's crisis it may be pressure from the markets that decides who will lead the world's eighth largest economy.
Honda, the world's eighth-biggest automaker, has developed a panoply of technologies: hybrids, fuel cells, clean diesels, natural gas vehicles and the world's most sophisticated mass-market gasoline engines.
Nigeria is sub-Saharan Africa's second-biggest economy after South Africa's and the world's eighth-largest oil exporter, yet the continent's most populous country (with 140m-plus citizens) has yet to fulfil its economic potential.
And then there is Turkey, the world's eighth-biggest market.
The Kiwis can all but wrap up their eighth world title in nine years in Hong Kong before the party heads to Australia for the Adelaide Sevens, where Wales face Samoa, Tonga and Japan.
With a win so vital to Schumacher's hunt for an eighth world title, Massa is likely to be assigned the task of keeping his rivals at bay while allowing Schumacher to assume the lead.
The markets apparently regard me as a worse credit risk than the government of the world's eighth largest economy - largely because individuals have a sorrier history in general of repaying what they owe than the public sectors of first-rank developed economies.
As a result, the World Bank this year ranked Rwanda as the eighth easiest place in the world to start a business.
This could put upward pressure on prices, because the agreement currently supplies one-eighth of world uranium needs.
The best American player is Mardy Fish who is ranked eighth in the world.
FORBES: One Thing Every Sport's Commissioner Should Change in 2012
Mark Webber in the second Red Bull edged out seven-time world champion Schumacher with Button eighth on the grid.
It supplies an eighth of the world's oil and remains, crucially, the only producer with at least some spare capacity.
ECONOMIST: Why the Saudis are worried about the high price of crude
Kournikova was still ranked eighth in the world in in May 2001 but her form dipped and she is now down at 67.
The Millennium Round would be the eighth round of world trade talks since the WTO was set up (then called GATT) in l947.
The market leader in Japan is Sharp, but it only ranks eighth in the world, with one-fortieth the sales of Nokia, the top company.
Last year's champion Ana Ivanovic has slipped to eighth in the world rankings, while the top four ranked players have only one French Open title between them.
The tally of strikes involving 1, 000 or more workers last year reached 29, the lowest since the second world war and one-eighth the level of two decades ago.
Guillermo Coria, ranked eighth in the world, will have to bounce back in his reverse singles on Sunday after an opening loss to Beck when he faces Slovak number one Dominik Hrbaty.
It came eighth in the world - higher than the US and UK - for its progress in bridging the gender gap between the sexes by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2011.
The 25-year-old is the first Swede to reach the semifinals of the event since Jonas Bjorkman in 1997 and he is set to rise to eighth in the world as a result of his performances here.
"It's a strange rule because if I had dropped the ball on the middle of the marker and it had not moved there's no penalty, " said Poulter, who moved up to eighth in the world rankings.
Another Spanish rider, Alvaro Bautista, was seventh for Honda Gresini while America's 2006 world champion Nicky Hayden was eighth on the second Ducati ahead of British rookie Bradley Smith on the other Tech 3 and Germany's Stefan Bradl on an LCR Honda.
CNN: Rookie Marquez outshines MotoGP champion Lorenzo in Qatar
应用推荐