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Author
Series
Rebecka Martinsson mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
A grisly torture-murder, a haunting northern Sweden backdrop, and a dark drama of twisted sexuality collide in a masterpiece of suspense.
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 443 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Over the past five hundred years, North Americans have increasingly turned to mining to produce many of their basic social and cultural objects. From cell phones to cars and roadways, metal pots to wall tile and even talcum powder, minerals products have become central to modern North American life. As this process has unfolded, mining has also indelibly shaped the natural world and North Americans' relationship with it. Mountains have been honeycombed,...
3) Never never
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Detective Harriet Blue of the Sydney Police Department prides herself on an uncanny ability to catch the most deviant of criminals. So when her brother is charged with a brutal string of murders, it rocks her world. Shocked, in denial, and facing uncomfortable questions about how much she knew, Harry is transferred to avoid the media circus. Investigating the disappearance of a worker in an isolated mine deep inside the desolate Australian outback...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1920, a bequest draws Morrie Morgan back to Butte, Montana, with his bride, Grace. But the mansion bestowed by a former boss proves to be less windfall than money pit. And the town, with its polyglot army of miners struggling against the ruthless Anaconda Copper Mining Company, seems on the verge of implosion. These twin dilemmas catapult Morrie into his new career as editorialist for the Thunder, the fledgling union newspaper.
Series
Special publication volume 103
Publisher
California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology
Pub. Date
[1990?]
Physical Desc
v. : ill., form ; 28 cm.
Language
English
7) The miners
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1976
Physical Desc
240 p. : ill. (some col.), ports., maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
8) Red gold
Publisher
Felt Soul Media
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (59 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Language
English
Description
At the headwaters of the Kvichak and the Nushagak Rivers in Bristol Bay Alaska -- the two largest remaining sockeye salmon runs on the planet -- mining companies Northern Dynasty Minerals and Anglo American have proposed to extract what may prove to be the richest deposit of gold and copper in the world. Documenting the growing unrest among native, commercial and sport fisherman, [the film] is a portrait of a unique way of life that won't survive...
Author
Series
Special publication volume 98
Publisher
California Dept. of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology
Pub. Date
1990
Physical Desc
vi, 29 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Special publication volume 24
Publisher
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The History of the Comstock Lode, first published in 1943, provided mining investors, engineers, and western historians with the first comprehensive, chronological history of mining operations on the Comstock. Of particular note is Smith's progressive record of the ways the mines were developed, the failures encountered, the bonanzas discovered, and the production records of the mines. In addition to the invaluable mining information, The History...
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