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  • 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

  • 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 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 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 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • Lost Coal Country of Northeastern Pennsylvania

    by Lorena Beniquez ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    Lost Coal Country of Northeastern Pennsylvania documents the region's disappearing anthracite history, which shaped the legacy of the United States of America and the industrial revolution. The coal mines, breakers, coal miners' homes, and railroads have all steadily disappeared. With only one coal breaker left in the entire state, it was time to record what would soon be lost. Unfortunately, one ... Read more

    R230,15 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Edge

    Power can't be left to trust

    by Ed Adams ...
    Series Book 1 - Edge
    Too good to be true?There’s power in a moon of Jupiter.If you can trust Ganymede's gatekeepers,know what is realand think before selecting a future ... Read more

    R113,61 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Die historische Entwicklung des erzgebirgischen Bergbaus und Adam Ries als 'Bergmann von der Feder'

    by Friedrich Naumann ...
    Adam Ries (1492 - 1559) zählt zu den bedeutenden deutschen Rechenmeistern, vermochte er doch wie kein anderer die als schwierig geltende Mathematik dem 'gemeinen Mann' verständlich zu machen, so dass 'ein jeder die Rechenkunst mit Lust und Fröhlichkeit begreifen' konnte. Sein bekanntes in Deutsch verfasstes Lehrbuch Rechenung auff der linihen und federn ... , das sowohl das Rechnen auf dem ... Read more

    R48,21

  • Applied Matrix Acidizing of Carbonate Reservoir

    by Ehsan Khamehchi, Mohammad Reza Khaleghi, Amirhossein Abbasi, Javad Mahdavi Kalatehno ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book enhances readers’ understanding of matrix acidizing and its pivotal role in the oil and gas industry. It is a comprehensive guide to maximizing reservoir performance. The book explores carbonate reservoirs, where acid meets rock, and indicates pathways to increased well productivity. Based on extensive research, the book has insights for students, professionals, and researchers and all ... Read more

    R1 959,36

  • 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

    R260,00

  • Mining of Mineral Deposits

    Edited by Genadiy Pivnyak, Volodymyr Bondarenko, Iryna Kovalevs'ka, Mykhaylo Illiashov ...
    In the last decades coal production capacity has increased rapidly and its quality, power and the reliability of equipment has steadily improved. Moreover, stability of production processes can be controlled better. In connection with that, unification of scientific schools focusing on "Mining of deposits" is an integral trend from the viewpoint of technical and technological policy. This ... Read more

    R1 795,68

  • Spon's Quarry Guide

    To the British hard rock industry

    by H. Gill, Mr D I E Jones, D.I.E. Jones, J.L. Watson ...
    Spon's Quarry Guide provides complete and up-to-date information on all of Britain's hard rock quarrying industry. For over 700 quarries it gives full address, OS Map Number and grid reference, telephone and contact names. Rock type, colour, grain and products are listed. The Guide also gives, for the first time in any publication, the plant and eq ... Read more

    R11 545,28

  • 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

    R94,61 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    R2 583,12

  • Rifts and Passive Margins

    Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes, and Petroleum Systems

    by Michal Nemčok ...
    Rifts and passive margins are extremely important for the petroleum industry, as they are areas of high sedimentation and can contain significant oil and gas resources. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of rifts and passive margins as a whole. It synthesises in one volume the existing information devoted to specific aspects of these vitally important hydrocarbon habitats. This ... Read more

    R1 608,38

  • Operaciones de Equipos de Movimientos de Tierra

    by Richard Skiba ...
    Las Operaciones de Equipos de Movimiento de Tierras sirven como una guía integral que abarca una amplia variedad de equipos de movimiento de tierras y sus correspondientes operaciones. Abarcando un espectro amplio de maquinaria, profundiza en las complejidades de minicargadoras, cargadores frontales, retroexcavadoras, excavadoras, bulldozers, camiones cisterna, camiones de transporte y volquete, ... Read more

    R99,55 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Watch and Clock Escapements

    A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology

    by Anonymous ...
    Watch and Clock Escapements: A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology is a comprehensive and authoritative guide for horologists, watchmakers, and enthusiasts of timekeeping mechanisms. This classic work delves deeply into the intricate world of escapements—the ... Read more

    R400,00

  • Mining In Africa

    by Sibusiso Anthon Mkhwanazi ...
    Mining in Africa: Past, Present, and Future offers a comprehensive exploration of the rich tapestry of the mining industry on the African continent. From ancient civilizations to modern-day developments, this book delves into the historical context, economic significance, social impacts, and environmental challenges of mining in Africa.Readers will embark on a journey through time, tracing the ... Read more

    R166,20 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mettlework

    A Mining Daughter on Making Home

    by Jessica E. Johnson ...
    A memoir of Johnson’s unusual upbringing during the 1970s and ’80s, interwoven with the story of her transition to parenthood in post-recession Portland, Oregon.In the weeks after her first child is born, Jessica E. Johnson receives an email from her mother that contains artifacts of the author’s early childhood: scans of Polaroids and letters her mother wrote in mountain west mining camps and ... Read more

    R305,89

  • Black Avalanche

    The Knockshinnoch Pit Disaster

    by Arthur V. Sellwood, Mary Sellwood ...
    Never has there been a pit disaster to compare in terms of human courage and human error with that which overwhelmed Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, in New Cumnock, Ayrshire, in the wet September of 1950. Black Avalanche is written by the famous husband and wife team, Arthur and Mary Sellwood, who learnt the truth about the disaster from the men and women who experienced this horrific disaster ... Read more

    R247,58

  • Fluorspar Mining

    Photos from Illinois and Kentucky, 1905-1995

    by Herbert K. Russell ...
    Series series Shawnee Books
    Winner, ISHS Best of Illinois History Award, 2019This first-ever pictorial record of the people and methods of the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District from the 1900s to the 1990s covers early and modern means of extracting, hoisting, processing, and transporting the mineral from mine mouth to end user. Nearly one hundred images carefully selected by author Herbert K. Russell show early pick-and ... Read more

    R198,71