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It's a memoir by Homer Hickam Jr., a retired NASA engineer who grew up in Coalwood, W.Va., and who got himself out of the mines (where his father was the superintendent) by throwing himself into the fledgling science of rocketry.
They exported salt from the southern end of the island and lead from the mines of Sant Carles, and at the same time extracted a purple dye from shellfish which was used for imperial cloaks.
Portable microwave units heat the moist earth that surrounds mines but leave the mines themselves unheated.
Land mines made it onto the world's agenda because Diana put them there, using only the cameras and good will at her disposal.
Lukas knew better about such pre-World War I hellholes as the Coeur d'Alenes district of Idaho; or Cripple Creek and Leadville in Colorado; or the Comstock mines of Nevada, as described by one Eliot Lord: