Gold Crown Press

Strip Mining is the art of cutting the earth open and reaping its precious goodies. Now, for the first time, someone has opened the minds of the men behind this mysterious industry. Few are aware that strip mining is serious business. Very deep holes are cut into the ground. Men fall in, and sometimes men die. The other men carry on, never quite forgetting the losses they have borne, or the horrible ever-present fear that they might be next. Next to the world of the matador and the high-speed superbike racer, perhaps no community is on such close terms with death as the strip miner. "Stripped" follows these fearless fellows into the bars and brothels, where they expound fatalistically on life, impermanence, and the practice of drawing valuable minerals from the tight grip of a greedy planet.