内容简介：
A rare earths and uranium mine in South Africaas remote Northern Cape is beset by creeping incompetence and operational disaster. Five years after its startup, irate shareholders begin to ask embarrassing questions about the mineas cash drain and its inability to meet its orders for U3o8 uranium oxide. David Bradshaw is drafted in to stop the rot. He assembles his management team, experienced and respected men in the mining and commercial world. Against odds, the team converts the mine from polecat status to the jewel in the mining groupas crown. Interplay among personalities unleashes rivalries that, combined with international concern over nuclear material, introduces a new mindset among board members inured to contending with immense obstacles rolled into their path. U3o8 proves no exception to the depths of travail and the heights of successadepending on whose agenda the unexpected fate of the mine suits.