Fire Into Ice

Charles Fipke and the Great Diamond Hunt

• Author(s): Vernon Frolick,
• Publisher: Hancock House Publishers
• Pages: 354
• ISBN_10: 0888397151
  ISBN_13: 9780888397157
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Historical , History / Canada / General , History / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Northern Territories (NT, NU, YT) , Technology & Engineering / Mining ,

Description:... True Story of Charles Fipke, the mining exploration geologist who discovered diamonds in Canada. Fire Into Ice follows Charles Fipke in his exotic travels through the fast-paced, cutthroat world of mineral exploration - from the jungles of New Guinea to the savannas of South Africa to the rain-forests of the Amazon to the Arctic tundra. This amazing true story culminates in Fipke's staking of the Etaki diamond claim in Canada's Northwest Territories.