The Deep Dark
Disaster and Redemption in America's Richest Silver Mine
“A vividly detailed, heartbreaking tale about a dark, alien place, the people who loved working there and a town that has never been the same. He brings to life the hot, dirty, treasure-hunt environment where danger was a miner's heroin." —Seattle Times
“Investigation at its best.” —Tucson Citizen
On May 2, 1972, 174 miners entered Sunshine Mine in Kellogg, Idaho, on their daily quest for silver. From his office window, safety engineer Bob Launhardt could see the air shafts that fed fresh air into the mine, which was more than a mile below the surface. Sunshine was a fireproof hardrock mine, full of nothing but cold, dripping wet stone. There were many safety concerns, but fire wasn’t one of them. So when…
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March 28, 2006
Gregg Olsen has been a journalist and investigative author for more than twenty years. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Abandoned Prayers, and, most recently, The Deep Dark. He lives in Olalla, Washington.
The Deep Dark
Gregg Olsen