Deuteronomy 8:9
Good News Translation
There you will never go hungry or ever be in need. Its rocks have iron in them, and from its hills you can mine copper.

New Revised Standard Version
a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper.

New American Bible
a land where you will always have bread and where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones contain iron and in whose hills you can mine copper.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where without any want thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy abundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its hills are dug mines of brass:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Where without any want thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy abundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its hills are dug mines of brass:

whose stones

Deuteronomy 33:25 His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.

Joshua 22:8 He said to them: With much substance and riches, you return to your settlements, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of raiment: divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren.

1 Chronicles 22:14 Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of the Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million of talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the abundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have prepared for all the charges.

Job 28:2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone melted with heat is turned into brass.

Context
Remember the LORD Your God
8A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and pomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey. 9Where without any want thou shalt eat thy bread, and enjoy abundance of all things: where the stones are iron, and out of its hills are dug mines of brass:10That when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayst bless the Lord thy God for the excellent land which he hath given thee.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:8
A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and pomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey.

Deuteronomy 8:10
That when thou hast eaten, and art full, thou mayst bless the Lord thy God for the excellent land which he hath given thee.

Judges 18:10
We shall come to a people that is secure, into a spacious country, and the Lord will deliver the place to us, in which there is no want of any thing that groweth on the earth.

Deuteronomy 8:8
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