dig up

Like Kogonada, I believe that artifice is a useful tool to dig up honesty.

Why would anyone brave hand-numbing cold, icy winds and rough seas - sometimes working through the night - to dig up mud from the Antarctic seabed?

"We've been doing up the house anyway, so I hired a digger and, with the help of a mate, we started digging up the driveway to see what was there," he said.

He adds this possibility had not been explored because digging up the pipeline was thought to be "far too expensive".

Some were deep underground digging up ore with shovels, others then hoisted sacks of the extracted rock containing coltan, which is used to make many electronic devices, on to their shoulders.