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1) Never never
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Series
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--the...
Author
Series
Nyxia triad volume 2
Language
English
Description
Emmett Atwater and the other Genesis spaceship survivors are caught between Babel and the indigenous Adamite population when they are sent to extract nyxia, the most valuable material in the universe.
Author
Series
Nyxia triad volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Emmett and the Genesis team must join forces with a surprising set of allies if they're ever to make it home alive"--
Author
Series
Spider Latham mystery volume 3
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Something is fishy at Brick Termain Enterprises, and Spider Latham has been hired to figure it out. Did the regional manager run off, or did something more sinister happen to him? You'll love this latest mystery from Liz Adair!
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Visionary Dan Randolph is dead, but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, sits on the board of his conglomerate. Randolph's rival Martin Humphries wants to control Astro and drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho, and flame Amanda, now wife to Lars. Many will die. Many will thrive.
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Rigdon Sadar has carried the burden of it all his life: For forty-five years it has been widely believed that his grandfather, Sam Rigdon, stole twenty-seven sacks of high-grade ore from a mine in Sylvanite. After the theft Sam had gone to Alaska and struck it rich, a move most thought he used to cover his sudden wealth. Now Sadar has seven days to find the cache before he must leave Sylvanite, now a tourist resort. His only leads are the old-timers...
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Cal Watson is having a terrible streak of bad luck. First he s lured into the desert with promises of a rich mine, only to find out the mine is bust. Then he s beaten and denied water at the first ranch he stumbles onto. But even those are mere inconveniences when he learns that a mine he just sold for $500 was resold for $20,000. Determined to reverse his fortune, he concocts a tricky scheme to win back his money and humiliate the man who conned...
Author
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Robert Hartland is a New York city slicker who knows nothing about mining. Boy, is he about to get an education. Looking for some adventure, he heads out to Montana with his father's butler to check on the family's investment in the Yellow Jacket mine. But the Silver City locals aren't about to let some greenhorn tell them what to do. To make it worse, his old girlfriend from back East shows up just as a new romance is beginning to bloom with Margaret...
13) Red metal
Author
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
A desperate Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three Rare Earth mineral mines that will give Russia unprecedented control for generations over the world's hi-tech sector. Pitted against the Russians are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray in Africa, a French Special Forces captain and his...
Author
Publisher
Archer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In Improbable Fortunes, Jeffrey Price takes us on a wild ride into Vanadium, a dusty, down-on-its-heels mining town in southwest Colorado--where it would be fair to assume that nothing has ever happened. But you'd be wrong. As it turns out, quite a lot has happened starting with a suspicious mudslide that destroys the town's Main Street and a cowboy, Buster McCaffrey, arrested for the death of one of the richest men in America, Marvin Mallomar. As...
15) Look out below!
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Workers mine for gold in Lego City.
Build your LEGO library!A new LEGO City reader, timed to tie into the new theme for Summer 2012, mining. There will be some caves, dark tunnels, and lots of digging--maybe even for gold!
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Searching for her buried friend after the mines collapse, twelve-year-old Pakistani mica miner Nura finds herself at the Sijj Palace, a luxury hotel for the dangerous and deceitful jinn, where she must discover the truth beneath the glitter or be trapped forever.
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