Unripe Gold!

[Michael Alexander]

Who remembers and read the book set in Oranjemund by the Author Geoffrey Jenkins called The Unripe Gold?

[Patricia Lotte]

Nver heard of it. Is it good?

[Michael Alexander]

The character is in Oranjemund, in the bar to particular......with the finale ending with with loats of blood being spilled with parachute commando's dropping on Alexander Bay airport...........

[georg ruf jr.]

Was he an OMer?

[Michael Alexander]

Nope! An out of town guy.... i don't remember too much, as I read the book about 22 years ago....

[Michael Alexander]

THE UNRIPE GOLD
In the heart of the world's richest diamond fields in South West Africa, lies Oranjemund, a small mining town. The territory is unaware that it is soon to become the arena for undercover investigations involving the international arms race.

Strangers arrive in Oranjemund. There is John Keeler an Englishman, who is supposedly buying agate for hi Hong Kong emplyers; an American professor of paleontology whose knowledge of fossils seems remarkably limited; a kayaker who has survived the hazardous journey down the great Orange River; and others – including a party of six Japanese mining engineers, as inscrutable as oriental dolls.

The interest of the newcomers centers around the East German scientist, Professor Reutermann, who is working a rich copper mine in the harsh desert of the Richtersveld. For Reutermann has discovered a rare metal of enormous strategic value; a metal, which could give great power to East or West.
   

He revels in the military omnipotence this discovery gives him. In a spell-binding and imaginative adventure story, Geoffrey Jenkins reveals what the Professor has found in the Richtersveld, who is financing his operation and exactly how he plans to use the priceless metal – the 'unripe gold'.

From Paper Back

The discovery of a major source of iridium near the diamond fields of South Africa was a deadly secret. For whoever controlled the supply of that rare metal so essential to strategic weapons development would have world power at his fingertips.

But as newcomers gathered in the small mining town, Professor Reutemann, an East German scientist, found out that his 'unripe gold' was no secret – that the dangerous power might all too soon be turned against HIM ...

[georg ruf jr.]

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[SandyB]

Now  if that were true ??

[georg ruf jr.]

Great Mike. You don't forget your freinds.

[Clive Symes]

MIke,
Get his book "A twist of Sand" (thats if memory serves ) and see what comes out in that -let me know once you read the book

[Gordon Brown]

Another interesting book about goings-on at Oranjemund is Drury Pifer's factual account of his time on the mine, entitled 'Innocents in Africa'. An American mining engineer, Drury was promised a great future by Earnest Oppenheimer, only to be sadly let down at a later time. A good read.

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

Think we could all write a book on that subject. .lol. . . .

[Andrew Darné]

Sidney Sheldons' Master of the Game brings you to the diamond diggings of the west coast and making an escape in the heavy mist being chased by security members with dogs...