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  • Material World

    A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

    by Ed Conway ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*An Economist, Financial Times, Times and New Statesman Book of the Year***Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award and the British Academy Book Prize, Longlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize'Compelling'** TIM MARSHALL'Lively, rich and exciting' PETER FRANKOPAN'Vitally impor... ... Read more

    R208,48

  • Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design in Weak Rocks

    Edited by Derek Martin, Peter Stacey ...
    Weak rocks encountered in open pit mines cover a wide variety of materials, with properties ranging between soil and rock. As such, they can provide a significant challenge for the slope designer. For these materials, the mass strength can be the primary control in the design of the pit slopes, although structures can also play an important role. Because of the typically weak nature of the ... Read more

    R2 246,97

  • The Miner's Daughter

    The second dramatic and powerful saga in the beloved Families of Fairley Terrace series

    by Jennie Felton ...
    Series Book 2 - The Families of Fairley Terrace
    The enthralling second book in the beloved classic series from 'one of the nation's favourite saga author' (Lancashire Post) in the grand tradition of Katie Flynn, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox.Jennie's heartwarming and heartrending sagas are richly praised!'Jennie Felton knows how to tell a cracking story and keep the reader gripped... if you enjoy reading books in the style of Catherine Cookson ... Read more

    R227,34

  • The Mechanical Behavior of Salt X

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH CONFERENCE ON THE MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF SALT (SALTMECH X), UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS, 06-08 JULY 2022

    Edited by J.H.P. de Bresser, M.R. Drury, P. A. Fokker, M. Gazzani, S.J.T. Hangx, A.R. Niemeijer, C.J. Spiers ...
    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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  • The Girl Below Stairs

    The third emotionally gripping saga in the beloved Families of Fairley Terrace series

    by Jennie Felton ...
    Series Book 3 - The Families of Fairley Terrace
    'Believable characters, a vivid sense of time and place, thoroughly enjoyable' Rosie GoodwinThe emotionally gripping third book in the beloved classic series from 'one of the nation's favourite saga author' (Lancashire Post) in the grand tradition of Katie Flynn, Dilly Court and Josephine Cox.Jennie's heartwarming and heartrending sagas are richly praised!'Jennie Felton knows how to... ... Read more

    R211,13

  • Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability

    Edited by John Read, Geoff Beale ...
    Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability is a comprehensive account of the hydrogeological procedures that should be followed when performing open pit slope stability design studies. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit (LOP) project, an international research and technology transfer project on the stability of rock slopes in open pit mines, this book expands on the ... Read more

    R2 965,61

  • 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

    R3 745,55

  • The Denniston Rose

    by Jenny Pattrick ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Aotearoa Classics
    A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the1880s - the only way to reach the makeshift collection of huts, tents and saloons is to climb aboard an empty ... Read more

    R194,80

  • Searchlight

    The Camp That Didn't Fail

    by Harry Reid ...
    Deep in the desolate Mojave Desert in Nevada’s extreme southern tip lies a small mining town called Searchlight. This meticulously researched book by Searchlight’s most distinguished native son recounts the colorful history of the town and the lives of the hardy people who built it and sustained a community in one of the least hospitable environments in the United States. Its story encompasses ... Read more

    R289,79

  • Sustainable and Innovative Mining Practices

    International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Mining Practices 2023

    Edited by Amit Kumar Gorai, Sahendra Ram, Ram Manohar Bishwal, Santanu Bhowmik ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Sustainable mining is need of hour to fulfil the increasing energy demand of the country and at the same time reduction in rate of carbon emission at utmost priority. Any mining project has significant health, safety, and environmental issues and thus sustainable solutions for all these issues need to be addressed. Currently, the mining practitioners, and industry bodies facing multiple challenges ... Read more

    R5 326,44

  • Gold Mining: A Step-by-Step Guide

    by J. Cunningham, EVOLV eAcademy ...
    Gold is universally recognized as a symbol of wealth, a 'safe haven', especially during economic downturns and times of high inflation, and a metal that has been celebrated for its unrivaled beauty and scarcity.However, did you know that there are 10s of thousands of tonnes of gold under the ground still waiting to be found?Our ebook, "Gold Mining Adventures: A Step-by-Step Guide to Unveil ... Read more

    R99,55 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exploration with Short-Offset Grounded-Wire Transient Electromagnetic Method

    by Guoqiang Xue, Xin Wu, Weiying Chen, Nannan Zhou ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides an introduction to the forward and inverse modeling, information extraction techniques, and applications of the Short Offset Transient Electromagnetic Method (SOTEM). It highlights the effectiveness of this method in various sectors, including metallic mines, coal mines, and engineering, showcasing its success across multiple mining regions. The book serves as a reference for ... Read more

    R3 028,28

  • Gardens of Gold

    Place-Making in Papua New Guinea

    by Jamon Alex Halvaksz, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    “This is a soya bean,” the Biangai villager explained, “a money bean.”Since the start of colonial gold mining in the early 1920s, the Biangai villagers of Elauru and Winima in Papua New Guinea have moved away from planting yams and other subsistence foods to instead cultivating coffee and other cash crops and dishing for tradable flakes of gold. Decades of industrial gold mining, land development, ... Read more

    R535,20

  • Proceedings of the International Field Exploration and Development Conference 2023

    Volume 1

    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 13th International Field Exploration and Development Conference (IFEDC ... Read more

    R5 148,31

  • 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

    R2 671,90

  • Mineral Resources Management and the Environment

    by U. Aswathanarayana ...
    Through an exploration of the links between geologic setting, mining and process technologies, economics, environment and stakeholder communities, this text addresses ways in which the mineral industry can be made safe, efficient and ecologically sustainable, focusing in particular upon the following key themes: a review of the current status of t ... Read more

    R6 029,20

  • Minefill 2020-2021

    Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Mining with Backfill, 25-28 May 2021, Katowice, Poland

    Edited by Ferri Hassani, Jan Palarski, Violetta Sokoła-Szewioła, Grzegorz Strozik ...
    The series of International Symposiums on Mining with Backfill explores both the theoretical and practical aspects of the application of mine fill, with many case studies from both underground and open-pit mines. Minefill attendees and the Proceedings book audience include mining practitioners, engineering students, operating and regulatory professionals, consultants, academics, researchers, and ... 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

    R2 257,49

  • "Hasta cuando soñemos"

    Extractivismo e interculturalidad en el sur de La Guajira

    by Zohanny Arboleda, Sergio Coronado, Tatiana Cuenca, Martha Cecilia García, Luis Emiro Guariyú, Mauricio Archila Neira ...
    Este libro es el resultado de la investigación "Teoría y práctica del diálogo de saberes: la consulta previa en La Guajira", realizada con el apoyo financiero de Colciencias, que tenía como objetivo elaborar conocimiento que se proyecte en políticas públicas sobre aspectos teóricos y metodológicos del diálogo de saberes y sistematizar la manera como esta traducción intercultural se pone en ... Read more

    R159,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    R6 798,89

  • Rockbursts in Coal Mines and Their Prevention

    by Gerhard Braeuner ...
    The preventive methods described have proved highly effective. They comprise laying out the workings in such a way as to minimize dangerous concentrations of ground stresses, and early elimination by means of blasting, drilling, or water infusion. An account of these methods as applied in German coal mines, the deepest in the world. Contents: Rockbursts & similar phenomena; Conditions of ... Read more

    R5 131,24

  • Aggregate Resources

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by P.T. Bobrowsky ...
    Aggregate Resources provides a comprehensive collection of 27 diverse scientific papers on aggregate topics, such as geology of deposits, geophysical exploration techniques, deposit prediction and modeling, land-use case studies, production values and trends, geotechnical properties, legislation politics and others. This diversity in subject matter is further enhanced by relying on contributions ... Read more

    R4 361,55

  • Fluid-Induced Seismicity

    by Serge A. Shapiro ...
    The characterisation of fluid transport properties of rocks is one of the most important, yet difficult, challenges of reservoir geophysics, but is essential for optimal development of hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs. This book provides a quantitative introduction to the underlying physics, application, interpretation, and hazard aspects of fluid-induced seismicity with a particular focus on ... Read more

    R1 072,25

  • Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries

    Rights, Processes, and Tensions

    Edited by Paul A. Haslam, Nathan Andrews, Karin Buhmann, Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu, Mark Stoddart ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This volume examines how communities, companies, and governments contest and contribute to the evolution of norms, rules and decision-making procedures that govern stakeholder consultation in the extractive industries.In recent years international organisations, governments and companies around the world have dramatically reformed the regime that governs consultations with community stakeholders ... Read more

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