After that it will be producing "hand to mouth" - bringing salt up from hundreds of metres underground.
Twentysomethings spend their days rearing children, living hand to mouth in Asia, and working sixty-hour weeks on Wall Street.
Middle-class people do not live from hand to mouth, job to job, season to season, as the poor do.
Exploration and production companies often run deficits and live hand to mouth trying to raise funds to do more exploration.
"It's hand to mouth but we will fight tooth and nail to keep it going and to open on more evenings, " admits Jo Jones.
And given the way they are being forced to live hand to mouth in this way, dependent on central bank support, they can be seen as zombie banks.
Higher gas prices are reducing the frequency of store visits and the lack of salary growth in the face of rising commodity prices are forcing more Americans to live hand to mouth.
The hardships Lui faced when he first came to Hong Kong in the 1930s, living hand to mouth, still influences his desire to keep working, although he now leaves the responsibility for day-to-day operations to his family and senior executives.
Thornton grimaced, putting his hand to his mouth as he turned around.
The audience was on its feet long before she finished her final spin, and Kim clapped a hand to her mouth as she looked around the arena.
Instead, opportunities for jobs and advancement remain close to zero, and the vast majority of people continue to live a hand-to-mouth existence by American standards.
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Vast mounds of rubbish fester on the city's streets where the truly destitute sift for scraps of aluminium or plastic to sell in a hand-to-mouth struggle to survive.
For their superhuman efforts, they lived hand-to-mouth and month-to-month, just a few steps above welfare.
In chess, although many would-be professionals lead a hand-to-mouth existence, the very top players can become millionaires.
Better bulls, of course, mean worse injuries for the cowboys who usually live hand-to-mouth and earn only when they win.
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They live in near-constant silence, stoically bearing the drudgery of their hand-to-mouth existence.
If the industry is continually kind of hand-to-mouth in terms of its profits, you're not going to see the big investments.
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The book also delves into the prime minister's time as a "weekend hippie" living virtually hand-to-mouth in London, promoting rock groups.
But Hershey executives say their "hand-to-mouth" products are boosting company sales because people eat their candy more often, not necessarily more each time.
The findings of the inspection team include poor financial management such as "hand-to-mouth" budgets with the authority lurching from one financial crisis to another.
We were pretty much living hand-to-mouth until Big John came along.
Even authorisation of ordinary spending (the government lives hand-to-mouth, as most of this year's budget has not been yet passed) is being taken to the brink.
For regular folks it seemed hand-to-mouth as usual, but soon I became aware of something new stirring: a tidal wave of foreign capital was bearing down on Haiti's shores.
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As though out of kindness to Cambara, Zaak holds his cigarette away from her in his left hand and he keeps the fingers of his right hand close to his mouth, almost covering it.
The driver sprang from behind the wheel and, pressing the palm of his hand to the woman's mouth, half carried, half dragged her back to the car and folded her body into the back seat.
She held the egg roll in one hand, dunked it into the sauce, and brought it to her mouth while using the fork in her other hand to scoop up more sauce.
At his trial, a jury had heard that Mr Chamberlain-Davidson grabbed his 55-year-old victim by the wrists, clapped a hand over her mouth to silence her screams and demanded sex.
The next day, two siblings aged 14 months and 30 months died of what was suspected to be hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD).
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