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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

  • 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

  • Women Miners in Developing Countries

    Pit Women and Others

    by Martha Macintyre ...
    Series series Voices in Development Management
    Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to be represented as a masculine world of work, legitimizing men as the only mineworkers and large, mechanized, and capitalized operations as the only form of mining. Bringing together a range of case studies of women miners from past and present in Asia, the Pacific ... Read more

    RM 286.16

  • 煤层覆岩采动破断及瓦斯流动规律

    by 王浩 等 ...
    本專著在廣泛的現場調研工作基礎上，採用理論研究、相似模型、數值模擬相結合的方法，對平煤集團煤與瓦斯共采模式進行了深入研究，並通過鑽孔成像方法對現場的裂隙場進行了實地驗證，最後提出了多煤層開採卸壓瓦斯抽采的優化設計方案。成果對煤與瓦斯安全、高效共采具有實際的工程意義，具有廣泛的推廣應用前景。 ... Read more

    RM 22.49

  • Millstones of The Pennines and North West England

    by Dr David Johnson ...
    Ever since people began cultivating cereal crops 10,000 years ago grain had to be ground down, or milled, into flour to make bread. Up to the Roman period in Britain this could only be done using simple hand querns but, over time, technology improved by introducing circular, horizontal millstones powered by water or wind. Other trades needed the means to crush raw materials to produce their final ... Read more

    RM 47.29

  • Mineral Deposits and Occurrences in the Arabian–Nubian Shield

    by Ahmed Hassan Ahmed ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents a detailed review of the mineral deposits and occurrences in the Arabian-Nubian Shield (ANS), including their distribution, mineralization styles, economic importance, and geological controls on the mineralization. The purpose of the book is to compile the results of past and recent investigations on mineral deposits and occurrences in the ANS that covering the countries of ... Read more

    RM 628.89

  • Green Scenarios: Mining Industry Responses to Environmental Challenges of the Anthropocene Epoch

    International Mining Forum 2021

    Edited by Artur Dyczko, Gabriela Woźniak, Andrzej Jagodziński ...
    This book aims to present an alternative based on natural processes and an environmental approach to post-excavation site management, e.g., post-coal mining heaps. These sites are places where various mineral excavation by-products are collected. Nevertheless, some post-mineral excavation sites are oligotrophic, terrestrial, wetland, and water habitat islands, providing unique biodiversity ... Read more

    RM 999.75

  • 100 Years of the Mines Rescue Service

    by Malcolm Davies ...
    This book is to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Mines Rescue Service in the Rhondda Valleys and South Wales Based at the Dinas Mines Rescue Station, Rhondda many thousands of volunteer miners were trained to become members of their colliery rescue team; to deal with the many hundreds of varied underground emergencies, sadly many resulting in loss of life. All coalfields in Britain and ... Read more

    RM 17.60

  • 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

    RM 19.56

  • Sustainable Management of Mining Waste and Tailings

    A Circular Economy Approach

    Edited by Alok Prasad Das, Eric D. van Hullebusch, Ata Akçil ...
    Integrating waste management, environmental sustainability, and economic development is a prime milestone in the circular economy. Critical metals recovery from mining tailings and secondary resources has significant potential, with widespread applications in high-tech industries that are critical to modern society and sustainable development. This book discusses technological advances for ... Read more

    RM 921.34

  • The Life and Times of Gen. John A. Sutter

    by Thomas J. Schoonover ...
    In 1849 gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill, about 18 miles from Sacramento; read the amazing true pioneering story behind Sutter's Mill.John Sutter had in 1847 a large ranch and fort at the present site of Sacramento in California. He owned large fields of grain, many herds of cattle and horses, and was very hospitable to all Americans coming to California. A flour-mill was needed on his great ... Read more

    RM 3.88 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Nisselinka Claims

    by Robert Longe ...
    In the early years of the 20th century Edward Wickford, a settler in northern British Columbia, lays claim to a rich vein of copper and gold. But events outside his control wreak havoc with his plans and dreams of wealth. Two world wars and two generations later, his grandson’s ownership of the same mineral rights is threatened by a hard-driving promoter of a public company listed on the junior ... Read more

    RM 22.33

  • Old Heart Of Nevada

    Ghost Towns And Mining Camps Of Elko County

    by Shawn Hall ...
    Elko County, in the old heart of Nevada, is rich in historic sites, many of them hitherto uncharted and some verging on disappearing. For the first time, historian Shawn Hall identifies and locates the ghost towns and old mining camps of Elko County and recounts their colorful histories. Following a guidebook format, Hall divides the county into five easily accessible regions, then lists the ... Read more

    RM 84.59

  • Governance in the Extractive Industries

    Power, Cultural Politics and Regulation

    Edited by Lori Leonard, Siba N. Grovogui ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    Greater understanding of the forms and consequences of investment and disinvestment in the extractive industries is required as a result of capitalist expansion, recent declines in global commodity prices, and claims that extractive sector projects, especially in the global south, are poverty reduction projects. This book explores emergent forms of governance in mining and extractive industry ... Read more

    RM 246.96

  • Mine Design, Planning and Sustainable Exploitation in the Digital Age

    by A.J.S. (Sam) Spearing, Liqiang Ma, Cong-An Ma ...
    Mine Design, Planning and Sustainable Exploitation in the Digital Age covers mine planning, design and exploitation taking cognizance of new developments, especially those associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the positive influence that it has, and will have, on the mining industry. It refers to latest best practices with emphasis on the social license to operate and sustainable ... Read more

    RM 705.71

  • Rock Mechanics

    Theoretical Foundations of Laboratory Tests

    by Davood Fereidooni ...
    Rock mechanics is a multidisciplinary subject that uses the principles of mechanical science to investigate rock engineering behavior. An important part of rock mechanics is laboratory studies of rock behavior. Rock Mechanics: Theoretical Foundations of Laboratory Tests is the first book that introduces the theoretical foundations of laboratory testing in an analytical manner.It covers all main ... Read more

    RM 497.88

  • Geostatistics for the Mining Industry

    Applications to Porphyry Copper Deposits

    by Xavier Emery, Serge Antoine Séguret ...
    This book covers the main mining issues where geostatistics, a discipline founded in the 1960s to study regionalized variables measured at a limited number of points in space, is expected to play a role. Each chapter of the book is associated with a stage of the mining sequence, including the interpretation and geological modeling of mineral deposits, evaluation of in-situ and recoverable ... Read more

    RM 211.67

  • The 5S Innovation Model

    A Tech-Innovation Strategy for the Mine of the Future

    by Antonio 'Tony' Nieto ...
    This book is aimed to help us look into the future of mining by defining ultimate operational conditions that will be present in a typical mining operation regardless of how far in the future. It introduces an innovation strategy designed to identify current and future technologies to achieve specific ultimate operational conditions that will be present in ‘the mine of the future’.The mining ... Read more

    RM 474.35

  • Minerals in Africa

    Opportunities for the Continent’s Industrialisation

    by Francis Gudyanga ...
    Africa’s dire need to industrialize is universally acknowledged and it is evident that the continent’s vast mineral resources can catalyze that industrialization. This requires the promotion of local beneficiation and value addition of minerals to yield materials on which modern Africa’s industry and society can rely. This book is, therefore, about transforming Africa’s comparative advantages in ... Read more

    RM 415.54

  • Longwall Mining, 3rd Edition

    by Syd Peng ...
    In the past 13 years since the publication of Longwall Mining, 2nd edition in 2006, although there have been no major changes in longwall mining technology and operations, many incremental developments in the whole system as well as various subsystems of the existing longwall mining operational technologies as detailed in the 2nd edition have been added to this edition.Major developments are ... Read more

    RM 352.82

  • Hydromagmatic Processes and Platinum-Group Element Deposits in Layered Intrusions

    by Alan Boudreau ...
    The role of hydrothermal fluids during the crystallization of layered intrusions and the ore deposits they contain has long been debated. This book summarizes the evidence for fluid-crystal-liquid (hydromagmatic) interactions and their importance for the understanding of the formation of platinum-group deposits in layered intrusions. It discusses the composition of igneous fluids in mafic magmatic ... Read more

    RM 511.19

  • Getting Gold: A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners, and Students

    by J. C. F. Johnson ...
    This edition features a linked Table of ContentsFrom the Preface...The gold-mining industry has grown considerably since 1891, and it appeared to the writer that the present would be a propitious time to bring out a similar work, but with a considerably enlarged scope. What has been aimed at is to make "Getting Gold" a compendium, in specially concrete form, of useful information respecting the ... Read more

    RM 14.47

  • Innovations in Sustainable Mining

    Balancing Environment, Ecology and Economy

    Edited by Kirtikumar Randive, Shubhangi Pingle, Anupam Agnihotri ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores sustainable mining knowledge, assessing researchers on the impacts of waste and new approaches to negotiating these impacts. Mining has always been a profitable venture; however, it comes with several boons and banes. The significant advantages of mining include employment generation, the establishment of townships and trade centers, and socio-economic growth. However, the ... Read more

    RM 377.29

  • Geologic and Mine Modelling Using Techbase and Lynx

    by Martin Smith ...
    This text provides a process oriented discussion of the theory, methodology and philosophy of geologic and mine modelling using two commercial software packages: Techbase, a leader for mineral exploration and modelling bedded deposits; and Lynx, for modelling geology. ... Read more

    RM 435.15