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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

    RM 70.29

  • 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

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  • Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South

    Regional Perspectives

    Edited by Gerardo Castillo Guzmán, Matthew Himley, David Brereton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change.This collection centers the concept of mobility to address the diversity of mining-related population movements as well as the ... Read more

    RM 156.78

  • Bulkeley Wells And The Uncertain Luck Of The Mining Game

    by Richard E Lippoth ...
    The economics of hardrock mining evolved dramatically during the first decades of the twentieth century as demand for metals surged while mineral deposit grades decreased. The era contains many examples of how the adoption of new technology offset changes in the quality of available mineral resources and the growing number of restrictions placed by society on how the resources could be extracted. ... Read more

    RM 59.59

  • Surface and Underground Excavations

    Methods, Techniques and Equipment

    by Ratan Raj Tatiya ...
    Surface and Underground Excavations – Methods, Techniques and Equipment (2nd edition) covers the latest technologies and developments in the excavation arena at any locale: surface or underground. In the first few chapters, unit operations are discussed and subsequently, excavation techniques are described for various operations: tunnelling, drifting, raising, sinking, stoping, quarrying, surface ... Read more

    RM 313.61

  • Old Victoria

    A Copper Mining Ghost Town in Ontonagon County Michigan

    by Mikel B. Classen ...
    Old Victoria, a ghost town from the copper boom, shows what life was like homesteading in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Over the years, some of the site has been destroyed or has collapsed; still, many of Old Victoria's original homesteads remain standing. Thanks to the efforts of a local group, The Society for the Restoration of Old Victoria, quite a few of the buildings have been restored and ... Read more

    RM 19.41 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hollowed Ground

    Copper Mining and Community Building on Lake Superior, 1840s–1990s

    by Larry Lankton ...
    Series series Great Lakes Books
    Details a century and a half of copper mining along Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, from the arrival of the first incorporated mines in the 1840s until the closing of the last mine in the mid-1990s.In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the ... Read more

    RM 80.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    RM 50.79

  • Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Geotechnical Issues in Energy, Infrastructure and Disaster Management

    ICGEID 2024, January 18–20, IIT, Patna, India

    Edited by Amit Kumar Verma, T. N. Singh, Edy Tonnizam Mohamad, A. K. Mishra, Ranjith Pathegama Gamage, Ramesh Bhatawdekar, Stephen Wilkinson ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book consists of selected papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Geotechnical Issues in Energy, Infrastructure and Disaster Management (ICGEID 2024), held on January 19-20, 2024 at IIT, Patna, India. The papers represent the research work in the related fields of underground mining, ground control, mining geotechnics, geo-instrumentation, mine tunneling, and underground ... Read more

    RM 1,463.29

  • Yearbook of Sustainable Smart Mining and Energy 2021

    Technical, Economic and Legal Framework

    Edited by Walter Frenz, Axel Preuße ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book is at the center of the UN goals of combining environment and economic development with new technologies.First, sustainability in mining is defined as a process of transformation. This is followed by an outlook on the aspects of safety, economy, environmental impact and digital transformation. The book includes a discussion of new aspects such as the problem of liability for mining ... Read more

    RM 461.19

  • Minería transnacional, narrativas del desarrollo y resistencias sociales

    by Maristella Svampa, Mirta Alejandra Antonelli ...
    Series series Sociedad
    ¿Es la minería un elemento dinamizador de la economía de las naciones, o solamente una actividad guiada por la necesidad del lucro inmediato aun a costa de la salud de la población y de la destrucción del medio ambiente? La investigación que se muestra en este libro demuestra la necesidad de una fuerte intervención ciudadana. ... Read more

    RM 43.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Rural

    Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next

    by Crystal Cook Marshall ...
    Series series Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics
    In Big Rural: Rural Industrial Places, Democracy, and What Next, Crystal Cook Marshall unveils the rural not as wild and unknowable but as measured and intervened-in as big cities. Drawing international comparisons with a case study centering on the Pocahontas Coalfield, Cook Marshall documents that rural places are often systems among systems that scientists and engineers heavily shape both in ... Read more

    RM 370.79

  • Underground Ventilation

    Proceedings of the 19th North American Mine Ventilation Symposium ((NAMVS 2023, 17-22 June 2023, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA)

    Edited by Purushotham Tukkaraja ...
    Underground Ventilation contains the proceedings of the 19th North American Mine Ventilation Symposium held at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (South Dakota Mines) in Rapid City, South Dakota, June 17-22, 2023. South Dakota Mines organized this symposium in collaboration with the Underground Ventilation Committee (UVC) of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME).The ... Read more

    RM 1,136.97

  • 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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  • Enduring Legacies

    People of the 1926 Barnes-Hecker Mine Disaster

    by Mary V. Tippett ...
    On November 3, 1926, catastrophe struck the Barnes-Hecker mine near the small town of Ishpeming in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In less than fifteen minutes, the mine caved in when a torrent of mud, water and debris collapsed, taking the lives of fifty-one men. Forty-one men were never recovered. The accident was the worst iron ore mine disaster in the history of the State of Michigan, and indeed, ... Read more

    RM 31.17 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Undisputed King of Selston

    ‘Captivating and deeply moving’ Richard Coles

    by Danny Scott ...
    'Captivating and deeply moving.' Richard Coles'Evocative, beautifully written . . . conjures locations and feelings almost magically.' Jeremy Vine'My brain has made the decision . . . I am going to love this book.' Richard HawleyThere was a time when he felt like the undisputed King of Selston.Then again, there were several years when he was convinced that he could talk to animals and... ... Read more

    RM 53.29

  • Fracking 101

    A Beginner's Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing

    by Eric George ...
    Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing to give its proper name, has become part of our lives recently, due to the massive exploitation of America’s shale oil and gas fields. Along the way it has stirred up controversy, with passionate opponents fighting against the oil companies. The fight has generated a lot of heat, but not much understanding. This guide, written by some-one who knows what he is ... Read more

    RM 16.74

  • Quarrying in the Yorkshire Pennines

    An Illustrated History

    by Dr David Johnson ...
    From Roman times, rocks have been worked for a wide range of purposes, initially as building stone. As time passed, more and more stone was needed for high-status buildings like castles, halls and monasteries, as well as for bridges, dry stone walls and road-building. The Yorkshire Pennines have a varied geology with many rock types that proved suitable for building and other uses, and the ... Read more

    RM 43.99

  • 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

    RM 84.59

  • Slurry Transport Using Centrifugal Pumps

    by Robert Visintainer, Václav Matoušek, Lionel Pullum, Anders Sellgren ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book is based on the industry leading short course of the same name hosted by the GIW Industries Hydraulic Laboratory and founded by Dr. Roland Clift and Graeme Addie, who together with Dr. Ken Wilson continued its development and authored the first edition of this textbook. This fourth edition has been extensively updated by the international team of engineers and authors who inherited this ... Read more

    RM 670.79

  • Smoke & Mirrors

    How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It

    by Gemma Milne ...
    'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from ... Read more

    RM 70.69

  • The Millfield Mine Disaster

    by Ron W. Luce ...
    Series series Disaster
    On Wednesday, November 5, 1930, Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine #6 at Millfield became the unenviable site of Ohio's worst coal mining disaster. Negligence caused an electrical spark to ignite accumulated methane and detonated untreated explosive dust. Within minutes 82 men were dead, 56 women became widows and 137 dependents found themselves fatherless. Approximately 120 men not in the direct line ... Read more

    RM 35.29 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biochar

    A Guide to Analytical Methods

    Edited by Balwant Singh, Marta Camps-Arbestain, Johannes Lehmann ...
    Interest in biochar among soil and environment researchers has increased dramatically over the past decade. Biochar initially attracted attention for its potential to improve soil fertility and to uncouple the carbon cycle, by storing carbon from the atmosphere in a form that can remain stable for hundreds to thousands of years. Later it was found that biochar had applications in environmental and ... Read more

    RM 211.59

  • Environmental Impact Assessments and Mitigation

    by Musaida Mercy Manyuchi, Charles Mbohwa, Edison Muzenda, Nita Sukdeo ...
    Environmental Impact Assessments and Mitigation examines various assessments for developmental projects in the housing, mining, energy, and waste management areas. As the world continues to shift toward concerns over climate change and environmental protection issues, developmental projects must have environmental impact assessments (EIA) conducted as well as environmental management plans (EMP). ... Read more

    RM 203.83