mineworks

The open-sky mineworks look like a huge upside-down pyramid where the Catoca Mining Company turns out more than three million carats of rough diamond a year, accounting for 65 percent of the southern African country's production.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

A quarter glass passed before he was above the top of the mineworks and could begin to move northward.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

Before starting back down the graystone road himself, Mykel took a last look over his shoulder at the mineworks.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

Mykel kept swallowing, trying to escape the smell of the guano, but he listened to the murmurs of the squad as they watched the last of the prisoners enter the mineworks.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

The local Cadmians were forming up the prisoners for the march up to the mineworks.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

He really needed to see the mineworks, much as he dreaded doing so.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

The local Cadmians barely looked at the bodies as they marched the prisoners up past fifth squad, stationed in two ranks of nine on each side of the gate into the mineworks.

Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

The semidistilled liquid still smelled like places he'd rather never visit, but he doubted the odor would carry, or prevail above the stench of the mineworks.

The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997