Here is the amazing true-life story of Charles Fipke, the mining exploration geologist responsible for discovering the vast new diamond fields in Canada's North. Now available in paperback, Fine Into Ice follows Fipke in his travels through the fast-paced, cutthroat world of mineral exploration in exotic locales around the world -- from the jungles of New Guinea to the savannahs of South Africa to the rainforests of the Amazon to the Arctic tundra. Fipke is a modern-day adventure -- an Indiana Jones of mining exploration -- obsessed with the quest for minerals. His is a complex personality combining a deep understanding of the science behind mineral exploration with an obsessive drive for adventure. The story culminates in Fipke's staking of the multi-billion-dollar Eraki diamond claim in Canada's Northwest Territories, a claim now being developed into one of the largest diamond mines outside South Africa. Fipke's biography will amaze and inform anyone interested in a life lived passionately in pursuit of a singular dream.