Thieves Chapter 26 - Welcome to the North
"this is the forged contract i got for you, from the mining colony. remember? the one we never had to use." sis remembered. jack had done some paperwork in the colony, for the slave transport they wanted to take.
Burning Twilight -Book One Of The Dragon Chronicles- Prologue: First Contact
However the mars mining colony was on the far side at the time and couldn't see the pieces. after they passed mars earth's ground based telescopes could be positioned to see the pieces. what they saw astonished them.
Orion's Kiss - chap 1
There's a mining colony only three hours away, we're going to pay them a visit. - connor, it's a mining colony. all they'll have there is dirt, canned meatballs and despair... - and diamonds, like dust. just lying everywhere. so i have a plan.
Birdsong
All in all, the planet looked very much like earth—amongst the hundreds of traxis enterprises mining colonies located on planets and moons scattered across the orion–cygnus arm, it was a prized assignment to be zone operator here in such a lush, safe world
Fall from Grace - Angel of Mercy
She told dance that she felt a responsibility to the people of the manthraka mining colony to stay and protect them, even if she wasn't getting paid.
Gildedtongue's Story Book II: Purgatorio - Chapter 1
Shi set the box down and extracted a lump of iron ore from an asteroid mining colony that shi used as a paperweight. the chakat cautiously approached the door, giving the door a firm push to expose whatever was inside.
In the end, everyone dies alone
Inaccessible to the small mining colony in the temperate zone of the planet. however, the mining colony was the lifeline for the laboratory high in the north.
The Origin Strain
Enjoy the moon, elara.]** for the first time in her life, the girl who didn't know she was a wolf looked up at the lunar sphere and didn't see a mining colony; she saw a home.
Containment, Chapter 4 (Part 1)
Records of this debacle, including personnel involved is to remain highly secret, if any of you say so much as the name of the station, personnel, or subject matter involved, you will be terminated effective immediately, and sent to some god forsaken mining colony
Thrust Vectoring
Her and scarlet both, packaged up and shipped off to some backwater mining colony to pump out babies for the rest of their fertile years. ramona stared at the screen, the words burning themselves into her retinas.
Judicator Chronicles: Heaven's Elevator
No one liked being that close to hypercorporate “mommy terra”; the moon colonies were all mining colonies except for the elysian domes.
Prelude to Extinction
The eden ii mining colony had been established for two years. two years out on the fringes of the galaxy. two years of being billions of lightyears from the nearest habitable system.