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THE FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI
HIS REIGN AND MINISTRY
CHAPTER 17
  9 And I said: Lord, whither shall I go that I may find ore to molten, that I may make atools to construct the ship after the manner which thou hast shown unto me?

Footnotes
9a
Deut. 8: 9.
  9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig abrass.
1 Kgs. 6: 7.
  7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of astone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
1 Chr. 22: 3 (3, 14).
  3 And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
Job 28: 2.
  2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.
Isa. 44: 12.
  12 The asmith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.