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Though Georgia belle Susanna Anders agrees to accompany her father on a silver prospecting trip to Colorado, her heart belongs to the South. Then charming cowboy Nate Northam saves her father's life and gives them shelter at his ranch. Feeling gratitude is only natural, but falling for a Yankee? Both of their families would be outraged. While Susanna's father recovers at the Northams' home, Nate can't help being drawn to the sweet Southern beauty...
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Distributed by VCI Entertainment
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[2011]
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English
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Bruce Campbell is a young Englishman who believes himself incurably ill. He travels to Canada to take over the land he has inherited, and intends to take up the dream of discovering oil before the valley is flooded.
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Goldtown beginnings volume 4
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"Jem is turning eight years old. And there's just one thing he wants for his birthday: a prospecting trip with Strike-it-rich Sam. With his grown-up friend to watch out for him, Jem's parents say yes. It's off for two weeks in the mountains to find gold! But this trip isn't going as planned. There are more tall tales from Sam than there are deep pockets of gold ore. And the map to rich diggings they brought along doesn't have any treasure at the end...
5) Lucky strike
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Just as she did in her New York Times Notable debut novel, The Metal Shredders, Nancy Zafris follows a colorful cast of characters into uncharted fictional territory, this time landing in the canyon country of the desert Southwest in 1954. For motivations as straightforward as striking it rich to reasons far more complex and counfounding, they each embark on very personal divergent journeys across an unforgiving countryside, even while their quest...
6) Fools' gold
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English
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Wiley brings together a variegated cast of characters in one of the last outposts of the American frontier, Alaska, during the gold rush of the 1890s.
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English
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"Ambitious and often captivatingly beautiful . . . an extended meditation on the prickly, necessary interrelationship of man and the natural world." —Kirkus Reviews
The first full-length novel by one of our finest fiction writers, Where the Sea Used to Be tells the story of a struggle between a father and his daughter for the souls of two men, Matthew and Wallis—his protégés, her lovers. Old Dudley is a Texan whose...
The first full-length novel by one of our finest fiction writers, Where the Sea Used to Be tells the story of a struggle between a father and his daughter for the souls of two men, Matthew and Wallis—his protégés, her lovers. Old Dudley is a Texan whose...
9) Pigeon post
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Swallows and Amazons volume 6
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English
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Reunited for the summer, the Swallows and Amazons search for a lost gold mine in the hills above the lake and face many dangers including a forest fire, unsafe tunnels and a rival prospector.
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Geological Survey bulletin volume 1313-D
Pub. Date
1974
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English
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"Dar Zarrouk curves are used to define the limits of equivalence for multilayer sections, to improve fit between theoretical and observed VES curves, and to incorporate geological and geophysical constraints in interpreted geoelectrical models."
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U.S. Geological Survey open-file report volume 03-317
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U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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13) Statistics of petroleum exploration in the non-Communist world outside the United States and Canada
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U.S. Geological Survey circular volume 981
Pub. Date
1987
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English
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14) The use of surface geophysical techniques to detect fractures in bedrock: an annotated bibliography
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U.S. Geological Survey circular volume 987
Pub. Date
1987
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English
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Geological Survey bulletin volume 1404
Pub. Date
1976
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English
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Areas favorable for prospecting the Carolina state belt evaluated by spectrographic analyses and cluster analyses.