To pick up the bits and pieces means to recover or clean up after a failure or disaster of some sort. It is often used in the context of cleaning up a mess made by someone else.
Yes the do because, minerals are bits of rocks that are broken down int little pieces.
The movement of material from one place to another place is called erosion.
Picking up sediment and moving it to another area is known as sediment transport.
Plucking
When the wind blows across the mountian, it picks up little bits and pieces of sedimant and drops them in a different spot. Eventully the picked up sediment could build a new mountian, most of the time it take 100reds of years
Picking Up the Pieces was created on 2000-01-01.
Picking Up the Pieces - album - was created in 2003.
Picking Up the Pieces - Paloma Faith song - was created in 2011.
Shattered Dreams Picking Up the Pieces - 1988 is rated/received certificates of: UK:PG
Dragon Ball Z - 1989 Picking up the Pieces was released on: USA: 1996
Sister Wives - 2010 Picking Up the Pieces was released on: USA: 21 July 2013
Reynolds City Picking Up the Pieces - 2009 was released on: USA: 29 November 2009 (internet)
Couples Therapy - 2012 Picking Up the Pieces - 3.8 was released on: USA: August 2013
Erosion.
Picking Up the Pieces - 1985 TV was released on: USA: 22 October 1985 Portugal: 19 December 1987
Kitchen Impossible - 2009 Picking Up the Pieces 6-4 was released on: USA: 2010
Shattered Dreams Picking Up the Pieces - 1988 was released on: USA: December 1988 (Los Angeles, California)