My boss shared an interesting story with us the other day. When you mine, the rock you have to remove to get to the ore is called waste rock. As you can imagine there's a lot of it, and our expertise is handling this rock. (We do other things but this is the biggest.) The client, meaning the mining company, held a consultation with the local Indigenous people and my boss presented on plans for handling the waste rock. Afterwards one of them told him "Don't call it waste rock. According to our creation stories that mountain is our ancestor. Our ancestor is not waste." So now we're all learning to say "mine rock" instead of "waste rock", and it really does change how you think of it.