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'Dying For Gold' comes out with latest edition

Book looks back at 1992 Giant Mine strike and fatal explosion that rocked Yellowknife
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Lee Selleck, one of the co-authors for Dying For Gold, poses with the latest edition of the book, which was originally published in 1997.

Dying For Gold, a book about a historic and highly-consequential strike at Giant Mine in 1992, which consequently led to the murder of nine people in an underground explosion, has come out with an updated edition.

The book was originally published in 1997 by co-authors Lee Selleck and Francis Thompson. Selleck explained that there's still interest in the tragedy, with new information to add for a new generation.

"You're always being dragged back into what's happening," he said, noting that since the book's original publishing, the families impacted by the strike have gone through plenty through in terms of their quest for compensation and justice. 

"You still feel things. Every September that comes by, I always think about what happened here and what the ensuing decades of people suffering from that."

The update also comes with an international release, said Selleck, who mentioned the United States has shown some interest in the book as well.

"We'd like to think that some of the lessons that might be learned from this disaster apply to elsewhere, particularly in the U.S., where there have been, even in the last 10 years, some extremely bad strikes," he said. 

Selleck said there are some loose ends he'd still like to follow up on, though he isn't quite sure how he'll go about it. Namely, he said he does not believe that Roger Warren, the Giant Mine employee who was convicted on nine counts of second-degree murder in the bombing, did what he confessed to.

 



About the Author: Devon Tredinnick

Devon Tredinnick is a reporter for SA¹ú¼ÊÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½. Originally from Ottawa, he's also a recent journalism graduate from Carleton University.
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