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Stones of contention : a history of Africa's diamonds / by Cleveland, Todd,author.(CARDINAL)612646;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Diamond mines and mining; Diamond industry and trade; Diamond industry and trade; Diamond mines and mining;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2

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Ice road truckers. [videorecording].

Driving on thin ice -- The final run -- Edge of the Earth -- The big blizzard.Host: Thom Beers.Chronicles the seasonal traffic of haulers on Canada's ice roads.TV rating: Not rated.DVD, Dolby digital stereo.

Subjects: Reality television programs.; Videorecordings for the hearing impaired.; Diamond mines and mining; Roads, Ice; Truck drivers;

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Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4

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Sidney Sheldon's Master of the game [videorecording] / by Birney, David,1939-2022(CARDINAL)764823; Cannon, Dyan.(CARDINAL)391867; Charleson, Ian.(CARDINAL)842837; Connor, Kevin,1937-; Hart, Harvey.(CARDINAL)851912; Sheldon, Sidney.(CARDINAL)151132;

Dyan Cannon, Ian Charleson, David Birney, Harry Hamlin, Liane Langland.Follows a prosperous family whose fortune arises from a South African diamond mine in the 1890s.Not rated.DVDs.

Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Historical television programs.; Television adaptations.; Television mini-series.; Sheldon, Sidney; Diamond mines and mining; Families;

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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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On three new mineral species from Arkansas and the discovery of the diamond in North Carolina / by Shepard, Charles Upham,1804-1886.(CARDINAL)192858;

Subjects: Diamonds.; Diamonds; Mines and mineral resources;

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Ice angel / by Hart, Matthew,1945-author.(CARDINAL)746886;

Alex Turner and his lover, the Russian diamond thief Slav Lily, are back on the hunt. An American prospector is murdered in the great diamond field of northern Canada. The U.S. government fears that the Chinese billionaire twins who suddenly control the dead prospector's company are seeking a toehold for their government in this vital northern region. In lethal plane chases across the diamond-rich Barrens, Alex and Lily navigate not only the deadly schemes of the twins, but the intrigues of Mitzi Angel, the murdered prospector's daughter.

Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Political fiction.; Action and adventure fiction.; Novels.; Government investigators; Murder; Diamonds; Diamond mines and mining; Diamond industry and trade;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4

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King Solomon's mines / by Haggard, H. Rider(Henry Rider),1856-1925.(CARDINAL)149882; Butts, Dennis,1932-(CARDINAL)187934;

Includes bibliographical references (page xx-xxiii)Accelerated Reader AR

Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Quatermain, Allan (Fictitious character); Diamond mines and mining; Treasure troves;

Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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The fever tree / by McVeigh, Jennifer.(CARDINAL)603329;

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Women; British; Diamond mines and mining; Smallpox; Women.; Womyn.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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Letter never sent [videorecording] / by Kalatozov, Mikhail,1903-1973.; Smoktunovsky, Innokenti.; Samoilova, Tatyana.; Livanov, Vasiliĭ.; Osipov, Valeriĭ Dmitrievich.;

Music, Nikolaĭ Kri͡ukov; cinematography, Sergeĭ Urusevskiĭ; editor, N. Anikina.Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Tatyana Samoilova, Vasili Livanov, Yevgeny Urbansky, Galina Kozhakina.After mapping a new diamond mine, four geologists are trapped by a fire in the woods of Siberia.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, mono.

Subjects: Film adaptations.; Fiction films.; Action and adventure films.; Osipov, Valeriĭ Dmitrievich; Geologists; Forest fires; Diamond mines and mining;

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Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1

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King Solomon's mines / by Thompson, J. Lee,director(John Lee),1914-2002,Film director(DLC)no 98119616; Golan, Menahem,1929-2014,producerFilm producer(DLC)n 85185291; Globus, Yoram,Film producerproducer(DLC)n 85151776; Quintano, Gene,1946-Screenwriter(DLC)no2003019895; Silke, James R.,Screenwriter(DLC)no2002101415; Phillips, Alex,Cinematographerdirector(DLC)no 91024673; Goldsmith, Jerry,Composermusical director(DLC)n 79095290; Chamberlain, Richard,1934-2025,Actor(DLC)n 85158136; Stone, Sharon,1958-Actor(DLC)n 95111574; Lom, Herbert,Actor(DLC)n 79105061; Rhys-Davies, John,Actor(DLC)nr 96011677; Haggard, H. Rider1856-1925Motion picture adaptation of (work) :(Henry Rider),King Solomon's mines.(DLC)n 80010495; Cannon Group,Presenter(DLC)n 85138172 ; Golan-Globus (Firm),Production company(DLC)no2003031039; Olive Films,Publisher(DLC)no2008081618;

Director of photography, Alex Phillips ; music by Jerry Goldsmith.Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies.Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing father lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.Rating: PG-13.DVD; region 1; widescreen; Dolby Digital stereo.

Subjects: Feature films; Fiction films; Film adaptations; Action and adventure films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Quatermain, Allan (Fictitious character); Diamond mines and mining; Missing persons; Treasure troves;

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Flight of the diamond smugglers : a tale of pigeons, obsession, and greed along coastal South Africa / by Frank, Matthew Gavin,author.(CARDINAL)559163;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-208).Prologue -- Msizi and His Bird -- Isaac Newton Co. -- Bartholomew Variation #1 -- Beyond the Pits of Alexander Bay -- Port Nolloth and the Halfway Desert -- Bartholomew Variation #2 -- Riding with the Faceless -- Driving to Kleinzee Amid Shipwrecks and Snakes -- Bartholomew Variation #3 -- New Rush and Kimberley: The De Beers Origin Story -- Beyond the Boom Gate, Touring the Erasure -- Bartholomew Variation #4 -- Pilgrims and the Mountain of Light: A Link Between Myth and Human History -- Odyssey to Die Houthoop -- Champagne and Death at Dark: The Origins of a Pigeon Obsession -- Bartholomew Variation #5 -- This Security Thing -- Bartholomew Variation #6 -- Epilogue.For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market. Immediately, he is intrigued by the ingenious methods used in facilitating smuggling--particularly the illegal act of sneaking carrier pigeons onto mine property, affixing diamonds to their feet, and sending them into the air. Arrivign in Die Sperrgebiet ("The Forbidden Zone") is like entering an eerie ghost town, but people are willing--even eager--to talk to Frank. Soon he meets Msizi, a young diamond digger, and his pigeon, Bartholomew, who helps him steal diamonds. It's a deadly game: pigeons are shot on sight by mine security, and Msizi knows of smugglers who have disappeared because of their crimes. For this, Msizi blames "Mr. Lester," an evil tall-tale figure of mythic proportions. From the mining towns of Alexander Bay to Port Nolloth, throught the "halfway" desert, to Kleinzee's shores littered with shipwrecks, Frank investigates a long-overlooked story. Weaving interviews with local diamond miners who raise pigeons in secret with harrowing anecdotes from former heads of security, environmental managers, and vigilante pigeon hunters, Frank reveals how these feathered bandits became outlaws in nearly every mining town. Interwoven throughout this obsessive quest are epic legends in which pigeons and diamonds intersect, such as that of Krishna's famed diamond Koh-i-Noor, and that of the Cherokee serpent Uktena. In these strange connections, where truth forever tangles with the lore of centuries past, Frank is able to contextualize the personal grief that sent him and his wife, Louisa, on this enlightening journey across parched lands. Blending elements of reportage, memoir, and incantation, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a rare and remarkable portrait of exploitation and greed in one of the most dangerous areas of coastal South Africa. With insatiable curiosity, Frank "reminds us that the world is a place of wonder if only we look" (Toby Muse).

Subjects: True crime stories.; Diamond smuggling; Diamond mines and mining; Homing pigeons;

Available copies: 14 / Total copies: 14

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