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  • Big Data

    A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

    by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier ...
    A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes before they explode? And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak?The key to ... Read more

    PHP691.69

  • Tough Outback

    by Mike Bellamy ...
    A Kiwi's stories of misadventure, mining and mayhemIn 1989 Mike Bellamy set off for the remote town of Wiluna, on the edge of the Western Desert. Keen to make a buck from Australia's mining boom, the fledgling Kiwi soon realised he'd walked across a frontier into a roughshod world where anyone trying to last longer than a desert sunrise had to watch their back, play by the rules, and keep their ... Read more

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  • Shadows of Gold

    Eureka and the Birth of Australian Democracy

    by MARJI HILL ...
    Series Book 2 - Gold! Hidden Stories of Australia's Past
    The Eureka Stockade laid the foundation for many aspects of the democratic system that Australia has today - freedom of speech, the right to vote, and political equality.Marji Hill, author of more than 70 publications, in Shadows of Gold, tells how:The discovery of gold in Victoria led to seeds of rebellion.The gold rush resulted in a population explosion and was to become Australia's greatest ... Read more

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  • The Pretoria Pit Disaster

    A Centenary Account

    by Alan Davies ...
    On the morning of Wednesday 21 December 1910, 889 men and boys travelled the two 434- yard-deep shafts at Hulton Colliery, also known as Pretoria Pit, situated in Over Hulton, north of Atherton, Lancashire. Sunk in 1900, the colliery was plagued with emissions of gas, particularly after roof falls. By 7.50 a.m., the day shift was below ground, motivated to put extra effort into their work in the ... Read more

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  • Rock Fractures in Geological Processes

    by Agust Gudmundsson ...
    Rock fractures control many of Earth's dynamic processes, including plate-boundary development, tectonic earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and fluid transport in the crust. An understanding of rock fractures is also essential for effective exploitation of natural resources such as ground water, geothermal water, and petroleum. This book combines results from fracture mechanics, materials science, ... Read more

    PHP5,707.79

  • Rheology of Paste in Metal Mines

    by Aixiang Wu ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book investigates the rheology of paste in metal mines, which is beneficial for cemented paste backfill (CPB) technology. This book establishes a theory frame of paste rheology, including measurement of the rheological properties of paste, rheological behavior of full tailings in deep thickening, rheological behavior of paste in the mixing process, rheological behavior of paste in pipeline ... Read more

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  • Integrated Modeling of Reservoir Fluid Properties and Multiphase Flow in Offshore Production Systems

    by Tobias R. Gessner, Jader R. Barbosa Jr. ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    The book is intended for practicing engineers in the oil industry, researchers, and graduate students interested in designing and simulating offshore hydrocarbon production systems. It approaches offshore oil production systems from an integrated perspective that combines the modeling of thermophysical properties of reservoir fluids and their flow as a multiphase mixture in wellbores, flow lines, ... Read more

    PHP7,104.19

  • Belt Conveyor Maintenance and Troubleshooting

    by Imer Jasarevic ...
    A belt drifts under load. A return roller stops turning. A bearing runs warmer after service. What should the maintenance team investigate next?Belt Conveyor Maintenance and Troubleshooting helps technicians, supervisors and engineers turn fault reports into clear investigations and documented repair checks. Written for conventional belt conveyors handling bulk material, it connects symptoms with ... Read more

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  • Historic Photos of Colorado Mining

    by Ed Raines ...
    Series series Historic Photos
    In 1859, 100,000 folks started the journey to the Pikes Peak goldfields, but only 50,000 completed the trip. An additional 25,000 soon gave up and went back home. The remainder not only brought statehood to the central Rocky Mountains, but they also brought the industrial world to isolated areas in the high mountains, where they mined mineral deposits for gold, silver, lead, zinc, and copper, ... Read more

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  • Sustainable and Economic Waste Management

    Resource Recovery Techniques

    Edited by Hossain Md Anawar, Vladimir Strezov, Abhilash ...
    This book compiles research findings directly related to sustainable and economic waste management and resource recovery. Mining wastes and municipal, urban, domestic, industrial and agricultural wastes and effluents—which contain persistent organic contaminants, nanoparticle organic chemicals, nutrients, energy, organic materials, heavy metal, rare earth elements, iron, steel, bauxite, coal and ... Read more

    PHP4,372.86

  • Science & Resources

    Prospects and Implications of Technological Advance

    by Henry Jarrett ...
    Series series RFF Policy and Governance Set
    First Published in 2011. This title explores the difficult and critical questions of the recent advances in science and technology and their strong influence on the production and use of natural resources. Planners, administrators, and ordinary voters must be aware of the physical and biological possibilities and limitations of their plans and aspirations; and scientists and technologists must ... Read more

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  • Vermont's Marble Industry

    by Catherine Miglorie ...
    Series series Images of America
    The marble deposits in Vermont are some of the richest in the world. Vermont�s Marble Industry takes readers deep inside the quarries of the Green Mountain State to show how stone was sawed and raised from the earth to be cut, polished, and carved into monuments and structures that today are spread across the country. During the late 1800s, the marble industry flourished and the mighty Vermont ... Read more

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  • Bodie’s Gold

    Tall Tales and True History from a California Mining Town

    by Marguerite Sprague ...
    The Bodie Mining District was established in 1860 after the discovery of gold deposits in the area. Bodie’s largest boom ended ust over twenty years later, but the town survived into the twentieth century supported by a few small but steady mines. Mining ended with World War II. What remained of the town became a state park in 1964. In Bodie’s Gold, author Marguerite Sprague uncovers the original ... Read more

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  • SQL Mastermind

    Unleashing the Power of Advanced Database Programming

    by Ryan Campbell ...
    Are you ready to transform from an SQL enthusiast to a true database mastermind? Dive into the world of advanced database programming with "SQL Mastermind," your ultimate guide to harnessing the true potential of Structured Query Language.Ryan Campbell, a seasoned database expert, takes you on an exhilarating journey through the intricate landscapes of database manipulation and insight creation. ... Read more

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  • Steep Rock

    The Men and The Mines

    by Bruce W. Taylor ...
    Steep Rock, The Men and The Mines is a comprehensive history of the very exciting development of the Steep Rock iron deposits near Atikokan, Ontario,Canada. This second edition of the original published in 1978, provides an enduring account of this massive enterprise.For this Second Edition we have retained the original as far as possible with some notable exceptions:We have increased the font ... Read more

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  • The Weight of Gold

    Mining and the Environment in Ontario, Canada, 1909-1929

    by Mica Jorgenson ...
    Series series Mining and Society Series
    Mining in North America has long been criticized for its impact on the natural environment. Mica Jorgenson’s The Weight of Gold explores the history of Ontario, Canada’s rise to prominence in the gold mining industry, while detailing a series of environmental crises related to extraction activities. In Ontario in 1909, the discovery of exceptionally rich hard rock gold deposits in the Abitibi ... Read more

    PHP1,771.89

  • Ten Commitments Revisited

    Securing Australia's Future Environment

    Edited by Steve Morton, David Lindenmayer, Stephen Dovers ...
    What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment? In this follow up to the highly successful book Ten Commitments: Reshaping the Lucky Country's Environment, Australia’s leading environmental thinkers have written provocative chapters on what must be done to tackle Australia's environmental problems – in terms of policies, on-ground actions and research ... Read more

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  • Rock Mass Stability Around Underground Excavations in a Mine

    A Case Study

    by Yan Xing, Louis Sandbak, Pinnaduwa Kulatilake ...
    Stability of underground excavations is of great importance to an operating mine because it ensures the safety of the working people and operating equipment, and successful ore production. Due to the complex geological conditions and mine constructions, and variability and uncertainty in estimating rock mass mechanical properties, the assessment of rock mass stability for an underground mine is ... Read more

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  • One Shot for Gold

    Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California

    by Eleanor Herz Swent ...
    Series series Mining and Society Series
    **Winner of the 2023 Clark Spence Award from the Mining History Association!An account of the creation of a modern, environmentally sensitive mine as told by the people who developed and worked it.**In 1978, a geologist working for the Homestake Mining Company discovered gold in a remote corner of California’s Napa County. This discovery led to the establishment of California’s most productive ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Gold Mining Wastewater Treatment by Sorption Using Low-Cost Materials

    UNESCO-IHE PhD Thesis

    by Mike Agbesi Acheampong ...
    Series series IHE Delft PhD Thesis Series
    Sorption technique was employed to remove heavy metals from gold mining effluent using natural and plant materials for sustainability. An assessment of the effluent quality of a gold mining company in Ghana indicated that arsenic, copper and cyanide were the major pollutants in the process effluent. Arsenic and copper were successfully removed from the effluent by the studied materials. The ... Read more

    PHP7,452.78

  • Regime Stability, Social Insecurity and Bauxite Mining in Guinea

    Developments Since the Mid-Twentieth Century

    by Penda Diallo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This book explores how bauxite mining has affected local and national political dynamics in Guinea over the past 55 years, providing an overview of mining interactions with social, economic and political spheres.Guinea is amongst the world’s top producers of bauxite, and the country’s rich mineral presence has numerous implications on local communities and national policy. Guinea is an interesting ... Read more

    PHP2,093.73

  • 价定矿兴：广西壮族自治区主要矿产矿业权市场基准价研究

    by 广西国土资源规划设计集团, 韦栋梁, 吴城明 ...
    矿产资源是自然赋予的重要宝藏，也是人类赖以生存的物质基础，必须合理开发利用矿产资源，规范矿业权交易行为。由于广西一直未制定矿业权市场基准价，在相关研究方面处于空白，根据国家文件要求，自2017年7月1日起，广西境内所有矿业权均无法出让，矿产资源无法进行配置。矿业是广西国民经济发展的支柱产业之一，其健康发展是广西社会发展的重要基石，矿业权无法出让、矿产资源无法配置，将导致矿产品及原料供需严重失衡，直接影响各行各业的发展。因此，制定广西矿业权市场基准价是切实推进广西矿产资源权益金制度改革的迫切需要，是解决广西矿产资源配置问题、保障广西经济社会持续健康发展的重大手段。在此背景之下，本书研究制定了广西主要矿产的采矿权及全部矿产的探矿权的出让收益市场基准价，为广西矿业权出让收益市场基准价文件的出台提供科学建议，为广西矿业权出让底价提供法律依据，为广西矿业权市场基准价的政策出台提供科学依据 ... Read more

    PHP1,509.02

  • 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

    PHP3,510.49

  • Minerals and Coal Process Calculations

    by D.V. Subba Rao ...
    The aim of process calculations is to evaluate the performance of minerals and coal processing operations in terms of efficiency of the operation, grade of the final products and recovery of the required constituents. To meet these requirements, in-depth detailed calculations are illustrated in this book.This book is designed to cover all the process calculations. The method and/or steps in ... Read more

    PHP5,851.22