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  • The Elements of Power

    A Story of War, Technology and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

    by Nicolas Niarchos ...
    ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST 2026LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING‘A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics […] an unflinching, landmark work on the nature of extractive capitalism’ Patrick Radden Keefe‘Joseph Conrad called colonial ventures in Africa “the vilest ... Read more

    18,33 €

  • Its Been a Blast

    by Jack Shaft ...
    Jack started his mining career at the tender age of 18 in the deep gold mines of the Transvaal in South Africa. At the time of writing he still works in the industry... sometimes. It's been a bunch of booze-ups, fights, and mining mishaps from the very beginning, set against the backdrop of the cultural miasma of mining locations all over the world. This book recalls some of the stories, the lies, ... Read more

    4,99 €

  • Discrete Simulation and Animation for Mining Engineers

    by John Sturgul ...
    General Purpose Simulation System (GPSS) is a special computer programming language primarily used to simulate what can be classified as discrete systems. A discrete system is one where, at any given instant in time, a countable number of things can take place. The basic operation of a mine itself can be considered such a system. Discrete Simulatio ... Read more

    103,80 €

  • Passive Treatments for Mine Drainage

    A Guide for Early Researchers

    by Cassandra Chidiac, Aaron Bleasdale-Pollowy, Andrew Holmes, Frank Gu ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book allows readers to grasp both the fundamentals and the latest technological advances in the field of mine drainage, which is increasingly crucial both environmentally and economically. Its extensive coverage of current and promising passive treatment technologies, combined with numerous practical guides, makes it an indispensable tool for early researchers seeking promising trends and ... Read more

    47,69 €

  • Spoil to Soil: Mine Site Rehabilitation and Revegetation

    Edited by N.S. Bolan, M.B. Kirkham, Y.S. Ok ...
    Spoil to Soil: Mine Site Rehabilitation and Revegetation presents both fundamental and practical aspects of remediation and revegetation of mine sites. Through three major themes, it examines characterization of mine site spoils; remediation of chemical, physical and biological constraints of mine site spoils, including post mine-site land-use practices; and revegetation of remediated mine site ... Read more

    65,94 €

  • The Whitehaven Colliery Through Time

    by Alan W. Routledge ...
    Series series Through Time
    Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Shipping ever increasing quantities of coal to Ireland brought another industry to the town – shipbuilding. In the seventeenth century, the Whitehaven Pottery began, local coal firing the kilns. Coal mining fathered several more local industries, ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • Rock Failure Mechanisms

    Illustrated and Explained

    by Chun'An Tang, John A. Hudson ...
    When dealing with rock in civil engineering, mining engineering and other engineering, the process by which the rock fails under load should be understood, so that safe structures can be built on and in the rock. However, there are many ways for loading rock and rock can have a variety of idiosyncracies. This reference book provides engineers and researchers with the essential knowledge for a ... Read more

    61,05 €

  • 1001 Technical English

    by Atallah Walid ...
    "1001 Technical English" is a concise, all-encompassing lexicon spanning mining, metallurgy, geology, chemistry, and mechanical engineering. This comprehensive reference guide provides succinct definitions, covering drilling, ore extraction, alloying, geological formations, chemical reactions, machinery mechanics, and more. With precise technical accuracy and clear grammar, it serves as an ... Read more

    2,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Black & White: Comradeship, violence, danger and triumph through an historic century of coal

    by Peter Williams ...
    The County of Kent, with its hopgardens, oasthouses and orchards, is known around the world as the Garden of England. In the 1920s, plans were drawn up to transform it into a new, industrial Black Country of coalmines and ironworks.Men, starved of work during The Depression, flocked to Kent, seeking jobs in the 18 new collieries promised by Neville Chamberlain, who would soon become Britain's ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • Uranium and Nuclear Energy: 1981

    Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium Held by the Uranium Institute, London, 2 – 4 September, 1981

    by Sam Stuart ...
    Uranium and Nuclear Energy: 1981 is a collection of 27 papers presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Uranium and Nuclear Energy, held by The Uranium Institute, London on September 2-4, 1981. This six-part volume represents a true cross-section of world opinion on nuclear matters. After briefly discussing the leading problems linked to world's energy and ideas concerning possible ... Read more

    49,49 €

  • Walkden Yard

    The Lancashire Central Coalfield Workshops

    by Alan Davies ...
    Located close to the Ellesmere Colliery, the Walkden Yard ultimately became the NCB Central Workshops for Lancashire. From here the workshops served the Bridgewater Trustees' collieries, providing engineering support as well as maintaining the numerous railway locomotives and the many hundreds of wagons that the company owned. Opened in 1878, Walkden Yard transferred to the National Coal Board ... Read more

    14,09 €

  • Gold, Grit, Guns

    Miners on BC's Fraser River in 1858

    by Alexander Globe ...
    The first book to reveal the 1858 mining milieu by those who witnessed it firsthand.“An extraordinary book.” - The TyeeOnly four extensive miners’ journals are known to have survived from 1858. Quoting generously from the diaries, Alexander Globe focuses on the miners’ actual words providing an engaging authenticity and bringing the miners’ distinctive voices, personalities and experiences back to ... Read more

    11,86 €

  • 矿业废弃地地表空间生态开发及关键技术

    by 宋梅 ...
    本書基於生態文明的發展理念，將礦業廢棄地資源開發與相鄰城市發展水平相結合，綜合分析可利用資源情況，構建廢棄煤礦的開發利用模式，以期為國內礦業廢棄地資源開發再利用和生態環境治理提供參考。全書共由五章十四部分構成，分別圍繞“資源型地區礦業廢棄地現狀及其生態開發定位”“國內外資源型地區轉型案例與生態開發模式分析”“我國煤炭主采區典型省區礦業廢棄地生態開發模式分析”“資源型地區礦業廢棄地生態開發關鍵技術”“我國資源型地區廢棄地轉型保障措施與政策建議”五個方面展開研究。 ... Read more

    10,66 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Indian Metallurgy

    The Platinum Years

    Edited by R. Divakar, S. V. S. Narayana Murty, S. Srikanth, Amol A. Gokhale ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    The book marks the Platinum Jubilee of the Indian Institute of Metals, closely matching independent India's age. It is envisaged as a compilation of technical articles tracing the birth and growth trajectory of metallurgical science, engineering and technology in the nation, attempting a degree of prognostication covering the next quarter of a century. It contains the essence of the metallurgical ... Read more

    114,47 €

  • Gray Gold

    Lead Mining and Its Impact on the Natural and Cultural Environment, 1700–1840

    by Mark Chambers ...
    Winner of the Clark C. Spence Award from the Mining History Association!While the histories of gold, silver, and copper mining and smelting are well studied, lead has not received much scholarly attention despite a long history of both Native American and European desire for the ore. Over time, native peoples made lead ornaments in molds; French and American settlers used lead to form musket balls ... Read more

    41,01 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Operational Flood Forecasting, Warning and Response for Multi-Scale Flood Risks in Developing Cities

    by María Carolina Rogelis ...
    Series series IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series
    The aim of this book is to contribute to understanding risk knowledge and to forecasting components of early flood warning, particularly in the environment of tropical high mountains in developing cities. This research covers a challenge, taking into account the persistent lack of data, limited resources and often complex climatic, hydrologic and hydraulic conditions. In this research, a regional ... Read more

    103,80 €

  • Mining Development Report of The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member Countries (2023)

    by Jinrong Tang, Jun Hong, Zixin He, Yongwei Gao, Yanjun Luo, Zhongping Ma ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This is the first research report on mining development in the SCO member countries conducted by a Chinese research institute. It focuses on the economic development, mineral resources endowment and current status of mining development, mining investment environment, and cooperation in geosciences and mining industry between China and other SCO member countries. The aim of this book is to promote ... Read more

    38,15 €

  • Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries

    Rights, Processes, and Tensions

    Edited by Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu, Mark Stoddart ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This volume examines how communities, companies, and governments contest and contribute to the evolution of norms, rules and decision-making procedures that govern stakeholder consultation in the extractive industries.In recent years international organisations, governments and companies around the world have dramatically reformed the regime that governs consultations with community stakeholders ... Read more

    Free

  • Boomtown Saloons

    Archaeology And History In Virginia City

    by Kelly J. Dixon ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    The image of Old West saloons as sites of violence and raucous entertainment has been perpetuated by film and legend, but the true story of such establishments is far more complex. In Boomtown Saloons, archaeologist Kelly J. Dixon recounts the excavation of four historic saloon sites in Nevada’s Virginia City, one of the West’s most important boomtowns, and shows how the physical traces of this ... Read more

    14,41 €

  • Rock Mechanics & Strata Control

    Theory, Practice, and Application

    by A.J.S. (Sam) Spearing, T.R. (Todd Ray) Kostecki ...
    Rock Mechanics & Strata Control: Theory, Practice, and Application serves as a practical guide for examining many of the fundamental and applied aspects of rock mechanics and strata control needed to help ensure safe and effective surface and underground mining. Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, the book includes numerous worked examples to elaborate on how to interpret and use the rock ... Read more

    146,55 €

  • MEDIATING EXTRACTIVE CONFLICTS

    A Practitioner's Handbook for Company-Community Disputes.

    by Thomas Gaultier ...
    Series series Social Accord Architecture
    When a mining project lands on a community's doorstep, the conflicts that follow are never simple. Generic mediation training does not prepare you for this.Power imbalances, cultural divides, historical grievances, and livelihoods at stake: company-community disputes in the extractive sector demand a fundamentally different approach to mediation. This handbook delivers it.Built from over fifteen ... Read more

    24,79 €

  • Tungsten Investing Outlook

    Why Tungsten Is Gaining Value and How To Invest for the Future

    by Roggie Clark, Raj Clark ...
    Series series The Metal Investor Outlook: Emerging Metal Markets
    Tungsten is not just a metal used for paper weights or fishing weights, it is quickly becoming a serious investment opportunity. Once a material tightly controlled by a few regions, new mining operations are now opening in the United States and abroad, creating new interest among investors, collectors, and metallurgists. With the tungsten market expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • Mountain Movers

    Mining, Sustainability and the Agents of Change

    by Daniel M. Franks ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    The products of mining are everywhere – if it wasn’t grown, it was mined or drilled. But the mining industry has a chequered past. Pollution, human rights abuses, and corruption have tarnished the reputation of the industry across the globe. Over a decade ago the major mining companies embraced the concept of sustainable and equitable development and embarked on an explicit process of reform – but ... Read more

    63,50 €

  • Reducing the Impacts of Development on Wildlife

    by James Gleeson, Deborah Gleeson ...
    The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is one of the chief problems confronting environmental professionals today. This problem is largely due to the impact humans have had on land use through development (e.g. agricultural, residential, industrial, infrastructure and mining developments). The requirement for developers to implement measures to reduce the ... Read more

    49,60 €