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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as mining)
avg rating 4.36 — 17,248 ratings — published 2023
Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as mining)
avg rating 3.68 — 109,829 ratings — published 2014
The Women of the Copper Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mining)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,705 ratings — published 2019
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mining)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,973 ratings — published 2014
Town Is by the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mining)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,767 ratings — published 2017
Elements of Mining Technology Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mining)
avg rating 3.77 — 154 ratings — published
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as mining)
avg rating 4.33 — 350,170 ratings — published 2005
How Green Was My Valley (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mining)
avg rating 4.21 — 19,027 ratings — published 1939
Elements of Mining Technology Vol. 2 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as mining)
avg rating 3.86 — 93 ratings — published
Faith, Hope, and Ivy June (Library Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as mining)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,563 ratings — published 2009
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mining)
avg rating 4.05 — 719 ratings — published 2024
Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mining)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,241 ratings — published 1969
Prayers for Sale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mining)
avg rating 3.87 — 19,439 ratings — published 1997
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mining)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,419 ratings — published 1971
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,445 ratings — published 2024
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.50 — 8,901 ratings — published 2023
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.29 — 517,137 ratings — published 2019
The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.08 — 416 ratings — published 2018
Elements of Mining Technology Vol. 3 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.06 — 54 ratings — published
Work Song (Morrie Morgan #2)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,108 ratings — published 2010
Strange as This Weather Has Been (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,541 ratings — published 2007
Thunder & Roses (Fallen Angels, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,884 ratings — published 1993
The Call of the Wild / White Fang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.12 — 78,489 ratings — published 1903
Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 3.97 — 326 ratings — published
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.21 — 267,836 ratings — published 2019
Intrepid Explorer: The Autobiography of the World's Best Mine Finder (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.11 — 27 ratings — published 2014
Germinal (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.21 — 43,649 ratings — published 1885
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.27 — 836,394 ratings — published 2014
A History of American Mining (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1932
Little Audrey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 3.84 — 551 ratings — published 2008
The Big Fella: The Rise and Rise of BHP Billiton (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 3.75 — 59 ratings — published 2009
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,279 ratings — published 2003
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 3.75 — 77,530 ratings — published 2002
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,358 ratings — published 1998
Mineral Exploration and Mining Essentials (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.54 — 26 ratings — published 2010
Saving Lucas Biggs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,516 ratings — published 2014
Rednecks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,108 ratings — published 2024
The Economic Definition of Ore: Cut-off Grades in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.14 — 695 ratings — published 2021
Underlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.93 — 28 ratings — published 2014
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,722 ratings — published 1991
The History Of The Comstock Lode (Special Publication (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology), 24.)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.80 — 20 ratings — published 1998
Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published
Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 1973
Nostromo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.81 — 18,072 ratings — published 1904
The Lucky Hat Mine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.09 — 176 ratings — published 2016
Gina Rinehart: The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.45 — 121 ratings — published 2012
Finding Far Away (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 2009
Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.04 — 122,548 ratings — published 2005
Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880 (Histories of the American Frontier)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.95 — 21 ratings — published 1963
“From space the little world looked like nothing much - perhaps a pitted and decaying pumpkin, dull orange-black in color, with a handful of tiny orbiting craft floating around it like fruit flies. Here and there amber lights shone out of craters in the surface. What seemed to be scores of deformed silver minnows nibbling the pumpkin rind - together with numbers of smaller noshmates - were actually huge transactinide carriers and lesser starships, either taking on fuel or docked nose-to-ground while their crews rested and recreated inside the not so heavenly body.
I have been told that the original Phlegethon of Greek mythology was a fiery river in Hades. Sheltok Concern owned a dozen or so similar way stations with brimstony names - Gehenna, Styx, Sheol, Tophet, Avernus, Niflheim, and the like - that served vessels bound to or fro the terrible R-class worlds where ultraheavy elements are mined.”
― The Sagittarius Whorl
I have been told that the original Phlegethon of Greek mythology was a fiery river in Hades. Sheltok Concern owned a dozen or so similar way stations with brimstony names - Gehenna, Styx, Sheol, Tophet, Avernus, Niflheim, and the like - that served vessels bound to or fro the terrible R-class worlds where ultraheavy elements are mined.”
― The Sagittarius Whorl
“You share the same destiny as everyone else, the same history, the same hardship, the same rot, the same Tram beer, the same dog kebabs, the same narrative as soon as you come into the world. You start out baby-chick or slim-jim or child-soldier. You graduate to endlessly striking student or desperado. If you've got a family on the trains, then you work on the trains; otherwise like a ship you wash up on the edge of hope - a suicidal, a carjacker, a digger with dirty teeth, a mechanic, a street sleeper, a commission agent, an errand boy employed by for-profit tourists, a hawker of secondhand coffins. Your fate is already sealed like that of the locomotives carrying spoiled merchandise and the dying.”
― Tram 83
― Tram 83
