Mines in the Spinifex: The Story of Mount Isa MinesMarco, a young loyalist peasant-soldier, falls in love with Norma, a rebel spy, during the Spanish Civil War. They struggle against a powerful enemy blockade that is preventing the delivery of food in a battle that could change the course of the war. |
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... mountain and , crossing the river , they rode up its boulder - strewn slopes . Henry dismounted , picked up a small rock , and was instantly puzzled by its weight . Climbing around the hill , breaking off samples here and there and ...
... mountain and , crossing the river , they rode up its boulder - strewn slopes . Henry dismounted , picked up a small rock , and was instantly puzzled by its weight . Climbing around the hill , breaking off samples here and there and ...
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... mountain called ' Black Mountain ' , which is nothing but a mass of pure iron ore ; and if only a coal seam - a workable coal seam - was discovered in that western country , there would at once be a chance for the initiation of a ...
... mountain called ' Black Mountain ' , which is nothing but a mass of pure iron ore ; and if only a coal seam - a workable coal seam - was discovered in that western country , there would at once be a chance for the initiation of a ...
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... Mountains he saw the scope for capital and technical knowledge in the idle copper mines of the Kyshtim Mining Works , a Russian company so poor that it was said to be paying its workers in pig iron . In Leningrad , Urquhart and a ...
... Mountains he saw the scope for capital and technical knowledge in the idle copper mines of the Kyshtim Mining Works , a Russian company so poor that it was said to be paying its workers in pig iron . In Leningrad , Urquhart and a ...
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CHAPTER | 1 |
Copper of the Kalkadoons | 18 |
The Duchess and the Hermit | 28 |
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