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More than 40 independent reviews on Amazon.com and Goodreads.com give THE MINE 4.8 stars.
"This is a MUST read book! The best book I have read all year. ... My only disappointment is that the author does not have a dozen more for me to read!" - Karen on Goodreads.com
"This is a great book I literally could NOT put down. I finished at 3:18 a.m. and had to get up for work at 6:30. It didn't matter!" - WordSmythe on Amazon.com
"I was really blown away by this book. It is hard to believe that this is a first time novel from Mr. Cobb, as it has surety of character and plot along with excellent pacing. I highly recommend this to all and look forward to Mr. Cobb's next book." - Rochelle on Goodreads.com
"If you like Robert Ludlum and John Grisham, you will love this book. There is action from beginning to end." - Alexander on Amazon.com
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Synopsis
Greed is King and life has no value. THE MINE is a knife-edged thriller that follows a young biologist and a veterinarian, husband and wife, who naively run headlong into the ruthlessness of a corrupt mining company. Their investigation into the mine’s legality reveals fraud, deep corruption, and the likely murder of whistleblower --and this knowledge may threaten all they hold dear. Everything is at stake from page one in a story that independent reviewers call "Riveting," "Spellbinding," "Brilliant," and "Grisham-esque."
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The Background to THE MINE
In 1990, the Summitville Gold Mine in Colorado released a flood of cyanide, heavy metals, arsenic, and sulfuric acid into the Alamosa River, killing all aquatic life in over 17 miles of the river and contaminating downstream farmland. The Canadian company, Galactic Resources, soon filed for bankruptcy and abandoned the site. This environmental disaster is now an EPA Superfund site and to date, the EPA has spent over 200 million dollars for ongoing clean-up. This is the most expensive EPA cleanup on record and it will continue into perpetuity.
In 1990 the Brewer Gold Mine in Jefferson, South Carolina failed, flooding the Lynches River with over ten million gallons of solution containing cyanide and a long list of toxic heavy metals. The spill killed at least 11,000 fish and decimated 50 miles of the Lynches River. The Brewer Company later abandoned the site, and the leach mine is now a Federal Superfund Site. Taxpayers will be paying many millions of dollars for cleanup for decades.
These are just two examples of how gold is mined today. While fiction, THE MINE is based on Colorado's $250,000,000 Summitville Mine disaster, Europe's Aurul Mine catastrophe which decimated over 150 miles of the Danube River, and the coming environmental debacle to top them all: Alaska's 20-square mile Pebble Mine. For a deeper look, see A Toxic History.
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