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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

  • History's Most Dangerous Jobs: Miners

    by Anthony Burton ...
    Series series History's Most Dangerous Jobs
    Mining is Britain's oldest industry, and this book follows the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Since the New Stone Age various minerals have been wrested from British soil – copper, tin, gold, lead – but in later periods the key commodity was coal. Those who worked in the mines were constantly battling on two fronts: there was the continual danger of flood ... Read more

    RM 40.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Mining is the Future

    Three-Step Process to Achieve Sustainability in Mining

    by Alp Bora ...
    Metals and minerals are all around us in our everyday lives. They’re used in everything from cars and kitchen appliances to smartphones and complex medical equipment. These natural resources are also integral to many forms of renewable energy. Mining is part of our transition to a clean future. As we expand the use of clean energy technologies, such as wind and solar power, the demand for metals ... Read more

    RM 22.33

  • 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

  • Advancements in Underground Infrastructures

    Edited by Manoj Khandelwal, Danial Jahed Armaghani, Ramesh Murlidhar Bhatawdekar, Pijush Samui, Saffet Yagiz ...
    Advancements in Underground Infrastructures presents the advanced modelling tools and experimental techniques applied in underground infrastructure development. It examines the usage of mathematical tools, experimental techniques, and data-driven models, as well as the latest technological advancements in underground engineering used to enhance the safety and stability of underground structures. ... Read more

    RM 509.68

  • Computers in Mineral Industry

    Edited by B.K. Mozumdar, R.V. Ramani, A.B. Samaddar ...
    In considering how computers are utilized in the mineral industry, this work includes coverage of mineral resource management, national database and national mineral exploration planning; project evaluation and monitoring applications; process control applications; and mine planning and design. ... Read more

    RM 290.09

  • Ground Support Technology for Highly Stressed Excavations

    Integrated Theoretical, Laboratory, and Field Research

    by Ernesto Villaescusa, Alan G Thompson, Christopher R Windsor, John R Player ...
    The performance of ground support as a scheme is essential to constrain failures occurring at the rock surfaces of deep or highly stressed excavations. This book covers laboratory and theoretical developments coupled with field experiments and observations with the implementation of the methodology at mines. It explains the energy dissipation capabilities of reinforcement and support systems ... Read more

    RM 305.77

  • Mining in the Arctic

    Edited by S. Bandopadhyay, F.J. Skudrzyk ...
    Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on [title] held in Fairbanks, Alaska, July 1989. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. ... Read more

    RM 1,450.62

  • 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

  • Coal Industry of the Former USSR

    Coal Supply System and Industry Development

    Edited by A.B. Kovalchuk, P.E. Hardinge ...
    The Coal Industry of the Former USSR presents a two-part study of coal supply systems and development of the industry in the territory of the former USSR. The first part covers the role of coal in the economy, provides an overview of current status and forecast of the eight major coal basins and environmental problems associated with the industry. ... Read more

    RM 290.09

  • Regolith Science

    Edited by Keith Scott, Colin Pain ...
    This comprehensive reference on the fundamentals of regolith geoscience describes how regolith is developed from parental rocks and emphasises the importance of chemical, physical, water and biological processes in regolith formation. It provides details for mapping regolith landforms, as well as objective information on applications in mineral exploration and natural resource management. Regolith ... Read more

    RM 366.99

  • Stone Processing Machine Operator Training

    by Manoj Dole ...
    Stone Processing Machine Operator Training is a simple e-Book for ITI & Engineering Course Stone Processing Machine Operator. It contains Theory covering all topics including all about safety -including fire equipments, types of stones, their dimension & decoration, Commercial varieties and different types of textures in stones, simple fitting operations, hacks awing, punching and filing. Marking ... Read more

    RM 11.72 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Der Nationalsozialismus als Problem der Gegenwart

    by Joachim Perels ...
    Series Book 3 - Beitraege zur Aufarbeitung der NS-Herrschaft
    Kritik an – heute wirksamen – Umdeutungen der despotischen NS-Herrschaft bildet den roten Faden der Untersuchung. Dazu gehört die Verwandlung des Hitlerregimes in einen Rechtsstaat und die Entpolitisierung der beamteten Funktionseliten der Diktatur. Die Auswirkungen der weitgehenden Übernahme des Justizapparats des Dritten Reiches werden sichtbar – wie die vielfache Auflösung des Täterbegriffs für ... Read more

    RM 271.89

  • Flyrock in Surface Mining

    Origin, Prediction, and Control

    by Autar K. Raina ...
    This book provides a comprehensive understanding of historical and recent research, with a critical review of several aspects of the flyrock phenomenon, along with classification of pertinent literature. This puts flyrock into proper perspective and develops a comprehensive regime for flyrock prediction and control. It also addresses the blast danger zone demarcation based on scientific ... Read more

    RM 278.32

  • 全球煤炭清洁技术与新一代核能用材发展态势研究

    by 全球煤炭清洁技术专项服务研究组 ...
    本书包含全球煤炭清洁技术和新一代核能用材两部分。全球煤炭清洁技术部分充分利用文献计量学和专利统计方法，综合分析与全球煤炭清洁技术相关的已经公开的科技文献和各国专利信息，根据技术发展趋势和态势，预测了未来煤炭清洁技术发展趋势，同时深度剖析了具有普遍行业影响力的创新性技术，系统梳理了煤炭清洁技术发展脉络。新一代核能用材部分从不同系别、反应堆内外不同服役位置等分类方法，对多种类型的核电用钢进行了介绍，分析了国内核电用钢技术特点。通过梳理核电站一回路主管道、压力容器、蒸汽发生器、堆内构件等关键部件用钢的国产化进展情况，分析了国内新一代核电用材的发展现状和趋势。 ... Read more

    RM 34.93 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • High Resolution Seismic HRS-Geo Technology in Challenging Geological Environments

    Advancement and Implementation

    by Vladimir L. Trofimov, Fanil' F. Khaziev, Alisa V. Trofimova ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents materials on the further improvement and application of this technology in order to create optimal sections and cubes for AI and RC acoustic heterogeneities in a real environment, with high resolution, and the most probable distribution of geological parameters of the medium such as clay content, sandiness, porosity, water saturation, effective and oil-saturated thickness, ... Read more

    RM 712.69

  • Mining Impacts and their Environmental Problems

    Edited by José Marrugo Negrete, M. P. Jonathan, AL. Ramanathan, S. Chidambaram, R. Nagarajan, Pankaj Kumar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book entitled “Mining Impacts and their Environmental Problems” presents a comprehensive view on various mining activities and a wide spectrum of environmental challenges associated with it. Case studies presented across global south such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America, are the first of its kind which presents a holistic and deep insight (into instead of about?) about this pressing ... Read more

    RM 670.79

  • Measurement of Blast Fragmentation

    Edited by John A. Franklin, T. Katsabanis ...
    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

    RM 1,881.89