The Unripe Gold

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 …

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