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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 €

  • Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods

    Rights, Revenues, and Resistance

    Edited by Thierry Rodon, Sophie Thériault, Arn Keeling, Séverine Bouard, Andrew Taylor ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This book maps the encounters between Indigenous Peoples and local communities with mining companies in various postcolonial contexts.Combining comparative and multidisciplinary analysis, the contributors to this volume shine a light on how the mining industry might adapt its practices to the political and legal contexts where they operate. Understanding these processes and how communities respond ... Read more

    Free

  • 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 €

  • Phosphogypsum – Conversion and Capitalization

    International Scientific and Technological Program "Ecology – it is Profitable", #1

    by Valentyn ...
    Series Book 1 - International Scientific and Technological Program "Ecology – it is Profitable"
    This scientific and technological work presents a new global approach to phosphogypsum utilization — transforming industrial waste into valuable material assets.Based on long-term research and industrial experience, the book proposes innovative methods of converting phosphogypsum into high-value products such as potassium sulfate, calcium chloride, and rare earth element concentrates.It provides ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Thick Coal Seam Underground Mining

    by Jiachen Wang, Weijie Wei ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book systematically summarizes the main technology and latest advancements of China's thick coal seam underground mining technology. It covers the mine development methods, the top coal caving technology and drawing mechanism, the measurement of top coal recovery and technology to improve the recovery ratio, the large mining height technology and coal wall stability control, large cross ... Read more

    152,63 €

  • The Crackerjacks

    by Mike Dupont ...
    crack•er•jack (ˈkræk ərˌdʒæk) n. a person or thing that shows marked ability or excellence. The Knoxgold mining company has cheated Joe McDonald and his crew out of their hard-earned bonus, and there’s nothing that they can do about it — until they discover an unknown gold-vein deep inside the mine. Together, they devise a plan to get it past security. The Crackerjacks are mining experts, but do ... Read more

    10,59 €

  • Passive Seismic Monitoring of Induced Seismicity

    Fundamental Principles and Application to Energy Technologies

    by David W. Eaton ...
    The past few decades have witnessed remarkable growth in the application of passive seismic monitoring to address a range of problems in geoscience and engineering, from large-scale tectonic studies to environmental investigations. Passive seismic methods are increasingly being used for surveillance of massive, multi-stage hydraulic fracturing and development of enhanced geothermal systems. The ... Read more

    75,14 €

  • Ores to Metals

    The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry

    by James E. Fell Jr. ...
    Series series Timberline Books
    This comprehensive treatment of the smelting industry of Colorado, originally published in 1979, is now back in print with a new preface by the author. Packed with fascinating statistics and mining data, Ores to Metals details the people, technologies, and business decisions that have shaped the smelting industry in the Rockies.Although mining holds more of the glamour for those in and interested ... Read more

    17,69 €

  • A Mile of Gold Strange Adventures on the Yukon (1898)

    by William M. Stanley ...
    "The most readable volume that has yet appeared about the Yukon...told the story of his successful search for treasure in an entertaining way." -San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 13, 1898"William Stanley, 84, who was with George McCormick when the latter discovered gold in the Klondike died in Pomona after an extended illness...said to have taken $1,500,000 out of the El Dorado district." -San ... Read more

    10,06 €

  • Mining the Borderlands

    Industry, Capital, and the Emergence of Engineers in the Southwest Territories, 1855-1910

    by Sarah E. M. Grossman ...
    Series series Mining and Society Series
    At the dawn of the twentieth century, the US-Mexico border was home to some of the largest and most technologically advanced industrial copper mines. This despite being geographically, culturally, and financially far-removed from traditional urban centers of power. Mining the Borderlands argues that this was only possible because of the emergence of mining engineers—a distinct technocratic class ... Read more

    29,46 €

  • The Mechanical Behavior of Salt XI

    Edited by Steven Sobolik, Mathew Ingraham, Edward Matteo, Melissa Mills, Tonya Ross, Donald Conley, John Stormont ...
    Rock salt formations have long been recognized as a valuable resource - not only for salt mining but for construction of oil and gas storage caverns and for isolation of radioactive and other hazardous wastes. Current interest is fast expanding towards construction and re-use of solution-mined caverns for storage of renewable energy in the form of hydrogen, compressed air and other gases. ... Read more

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  • Gold-Mining Boomtown

    People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory

    by Roberta Key Haldane ...
    The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.Today, fewer than a hundred people live in White Oaks. Its ... Read more

    19,71 €

  • Die Eroberung des Weltraums

    Wissen kompakt, #11

    by Dominik Wörner ...
    Series Book 11 - Wissen kompakt
    Seit der Mensch zum ersten Mal den Nachthimmel betrachtete, fragte er sich, was dort oben liegt. Sterne, Planeten, Dunkelheit – und vielleicht Antworten. Jahrtausende lang blieb der Himmel ein Reich der Mythen, bis Neugier und Mathematik begannen, ihn zu enträtseln. Mit jedem Teleskop, jeder Rechnung, jedem mutigen Traum kam der Mensch seinem uralten Wunsch näher: den Himmel zu erreichen."Wissen ... Read more

    2,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Head to Head

    by Lorraine Mason ...
    Oliver Hill was, and is, a maverick. Born to an Establishment South African family – his father was an Anglo director – his future was pre-determined; a top school (Bishops), a first class degree at Wits University, on to Oxford, and then the steady climb up the Anglo-American corporate ladder.However, his parents recognised the rebel in Ollie and sent him to America where, with a first class ... Read more

    10,48 €

  • Out of the Darkness

    A Novel

    by David A. Jacinto ...
    Series series Courageous Series
    Out of the Darkness is based on the true story of a nineteenth-century child coal miner rising out of the ashes of poverty and tragedy to change the world. It’s the story of greed, love, sacrifice, faith, and the courage to push aside fear and jump into the refiner’s fire where the finest qualities of character are forged.**New York City BB Award, Best Historical Fiction 2024Prestigious Firebird ... Read more

    16,03 €

  • DESIGN OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS IN ROCK

    Army Tech Manual TM 5-857-3

    by U.S. Army ...
    Army Technical Manual TM 5-857-3This obscure and unusual 1961 manual details how the U.S. military goes about planning/constructing underground installations and bases. Chock-full of intricate details on design criteria, costing, construction methods and various special features like multiple portals, blast doors, ventilation considerations. If you ever wanted to build your own secret underground ... Read more

    1,81 €

  • Proceedings of the International Field Exploration and Development Conference 2021

    Edited by Jia'en Lin ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book focuses on reservoir surveillance and management, reservoir evaluation and dynamic description, reservoir production stimulation and EOR, ultra-tight reservoir, unconventional oil and gas resources technology, oil and gas well production testing, and geomechanics. This book is a compilation of selected papers from the 11th International Field Exploration and Development Conference (IFEDC ... Read more

    304,32 €

  • Mining goes Digital

    Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium 'Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Mineral Industry' (APCOM 2019), June 4-6, 2019, Wroclaw, Poland

    Edited by Christoph Mueller, Winfred Assibey-Bonsu, Ernest Baafi, Christoph Dauber, Chris Doran, Oleg Nagovitsyn, Marek Jaszczuk ...
    The conferences on ‘Applications for Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals Industry’ (APCOM) initially focused on the optimization of geostatistics and resource estimation. Several standard methods used in these fields were presented in the early days of APCOM.While geostatistics remains an important part, information technology has emerged, and nowadays APCOM not only focuses on ... Read more

    Free

  • Quarrying in Cumbria

    by Dr David Johnson ...
    The exploiting of stone in Cumbria dates back to the Neolithic period when volcanic rock from the high Lakeland fells was worked to make hand axes. In Roman times sandstone was extensively quarried for building Hadrian’s Wall and forts like Carlisle. The industry expanded in the Middle Ages as stone was needed for high-status buildings like castles, tower houses and monasteries as well as for ... Read more

    12,29 €

  • Opencast Images

    An Informal Look at British Coal Opencast Sites

    by Dave Wootton ...
    In the United Kingdom surface coal mining began in 1942 in response to a national shortage of deep-mined coal. By the 1980s, when Dave Wootton began touring sites and taking photographs, the industry was firmly established with major operations and very large machinery. His fully captioned pictures cover the period from 1986 until British Coal Opencast (BCO) was privatised in 1994. There are ... Read more

    8,82 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Microseismicity for Applications of CO2 Storage

    The Role of Rock Properties and Fluid Viscosity

    by Tsuyoshi Ishida ...
    Series series Geomechanics Research
    Hydraulic fracturing (HF) has become essential for extracting oil and gas from unconventional reservoirs and heat energy from hot dry rock masses. However, a paradox remains in the fracturing mode of HF: stress conditions predicted by elasticity theory suggest tensile fracturing, while shear fracturing is dominant in HF-related microseismicity (MS). This book resolves this paradox by reviewing the ... Read more

    72,05 €

  • Mining and the Peruvian State

    Social and Environmental Sustainability

    Edited by John Crabtree, Gonzalo Delgado J. ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This book examines the social, environmental, and political sustainability of Peru’s mining industry as it seeks to garner the benefits of the energy transition between now and 2050.As the global shift toward net-zero emissions accelerates, Peru is uniquely positioned to play a vital role in the energy transition, thanks to its abundant reserves of critical minerals. This growing global demand ... Read more

    54,95 €

  • Measurement of Blast Fragmentation

    Edited by John A. Franklin ...
    A collection of workshop papers providing state-of-the-art reviews on all aspects of fragmentation, including photographic requirements, image enhancement, statistical treatment, and applications in quarrying, mining and minerals processing industries. ... Read more

    470,21 €

  • Remote Sensing of the Mine Environment

    by Nuray Demirel, H. Şebnem Düzgün ...
    A guide for students and professionals, this introductory course book covers the basic principles of remote sensing and its applications in mine environment monitoring. Building from a reader's basic knowledge of mine monitoring, it teaches how to implement remote sensing techniques and how to interpret the acquired data for different purposes. Fol ... Read more

    111,13 €