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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 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 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 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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  • 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

  • FLAC and Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics

    Edited by Christine Detournay, Roger Hart ...
    Sixty-five papers cover a wide range of topics from engineering applications to theoretical developments in the areas of embankment and slope stability, underground cavity design and mining; dynamic analysis, soil and structure interaction, and coupled processes and fluid flow. ... Read more

    R6 798,89

  • FLAC and Numerical Modeling in Geomechanics - 2001

    Edited by D. Billaux, C. Detournay, R. Hart, X. Rachez ...
    A collection of 54 papers selected for presentation at the 2nd FLAC Symposium. The contributions cover a wide range of topics from engineering applications to theoretical developments in the areas of embankment and slope stability, mining, tunnelling, and soil and structure interaction. ... Read more

    R7 055,45

  • Modelling in Geomechanics

    Russian Translations Series 107

    by F.P. Glushikhin, V.N. Pavlov, G.N. Kuznetsov, M.F. Shklyarskii, M.S. Zlotnikon ...
    This study presents the fundamental principles of the theory of modelling with equivalent materials. Recommendations are given for the computation and development of models as well as planning and conduction of experiments. Experimentation, techniques adopted for measurement of pressure, stress & strain as well as the methods employed for predicting geomechanical processes during mining for ... Read more

    R4 746,39

  • Mining Science and Technology

    Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Mining Science and Technology, Xuzhou, China 20-22 October 2004

    Edited by Yuehan Wang, Shirong Ge, Guangli Guo ...
    Jointly sponsored by the China University of Mining and Technology and the University of Nottingham, UK, a total of 187 papers have been included in the proceedings, of which fifty-two are contributed by authors outside of China. Scholars and experts from both China and abroad discuss and exchange information on the latest developments in mining sc ... Read more

    R13 469,49

  • ¿Qué es el litio?

    Transición energética y reservas sudamericanas

    by Federico Nacif ...
    Series Book 1 - ¿Qué es?
    Las disputas geopolíticas por el liderazgo tecnológico de la transición energética presionan sobre las grandes reservas sudamericanas de litio, un factor clave para el desarrollo de las baterías recargables que demanda la electrónica portátil, los vehículos eléctricos y las energías renovables. La forma en que se explotan los salares de Argentina, Bolivia y Chile, sin embargo, no es el resultado ... Read more

    R103,87 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Underground Leviathan

    Corporate Sovereignty and Mining in the Americas

    by Israel G. Solares ...
    Series series Mining and Society Series
    Underground Leviathan explores the emergence, dynamics, and lasting impacts of a mining firm, the United States Company. Through its exercise of sovereign power across the borders of North America in the early twentieth century, the transnational US Company shaped the business, environmental, political, and scientific landscape. Between its initial incorporation in Maine in 1906 and its final ... Read more

    R688,15

  • Deep-Sea Mining and the Water Column

    Advances, Monitoring and Related Issues

    Edited by Rahul Sharma ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on general issues of deep-sea mining for seafloor mineral deposits, as well as the scientific, technical, legal and policy issues related to impacts on the water column. The topic is a growing area of significance due to the ongoing conversations on this issue in the world community, in view of the large-scale consequences resulting from operations of different components of deep ... Read more

    R2 850,15

  • Il rimosso della miniera

    La nuova febbre dell'oro nell'Europa in guerra

    by Collettivo Escombrera ...
    In seguito alle grandi decisioni prese riguardo alla transizione ecologica globale si è risvegliata una vera e proprio corsa alle risorse strategiche, a cominciare dall'attività estrattiva richiesta a tutti i paesi della comunità europea. Non a caso tutto questo accade in un contesto di escalation bellica e di economia di guerra.Questo testo è stato scritto da due persone, ma non sarebbe stato ... Read more

    R149,41 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cryptocurrency Digital Revolution

    by Edward Becker ...
    The cryptocurrency revolution is here to stay, but why?Are you tired of trusting different middlemen with your hard-earned money?Tired of paying over expensive third-party services?Would you prefer instant payments over several days without asking for permission?How about a system that is completely backed by mathematics?Maybe you'd just like to earn some additional inco... ... Read more

    R47,86

  • 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

    R63,01

  • The High Seas

    Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean

    by Olive Heffernan ...
    THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER'A comprehensive investigation of the staggering damage we have done to the world's oceans and its life forms' Observer'A vital, fascinating, deeply researched exploration of Earth's last wilderness... Shocking and starkly 'illuminating - a must-read' Gaia VinceThe ocean covers seventy per cent of the surface of our planet, and two thirds of this lie beyond national ... Read more

    R206,99

  • Underground

    Stories to Understand Past, Present, and Future of Mining

    by Adrián Godás ...
    Translated by Sergio Lorenzi ...
    The thrilling history of the extraction and economic control of the world's major minerals – from Antiquity to the present day: gold, copper, iron, lithium, rare earths, and more.Why should you read this book? Mining is on the verge of regaining a central role on the global stage. As the world gradually shifts toward deglobalization and an indirect confrontation between the United States and China ... Read more

    R279,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Steam in the British Coalfields

    by Mick Pope ...
    Being a lover of steam locomotives is a bit like chasing a setting sun - with the real diehards searching out survivors further and further from their home territory. Many enthusiasts would mark August 1968 as the end of ‘proper’ steam locomotives in the United Kingdom, the date when British Rail withdrew their final examples. However, for those in the know, steam continued to contribute to the ... Read more

    R215,38

  • 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

    R1 436,49

  • Advances in raw material industries for sustainable development goals

    Edited by Vladimir Litvinenko ...
    "Advances in Raw Material Industries for Sustainable Development Goals" presents the results of joint scientific research conducted in the context of the Russian-German Raw Materials Forum. Today Russia and Germany are exploring various forms of cooperation in the field of mining, geology, mineralogy, mechanical engineering and energy. Russia and Germany are equally interested in expanding ... Read more

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  • Combler le décalage en innovation : évaluation des asymétries en investissement R&D et stratégies pour l'autonomie dans les matières premières critiques

    by BOBE ENGUELEGUELE STEPHANE ...
    Les transitions vertes et numériques de l'Europe reposent sur des matières premières critiques et stratégiques, dont l'extraction et la transformation sont fortement concentrées géographiquement et intégrées verticalement en dehors de l'Union européenne. Ce rapport met en lumière une asymétrie structurelle de l'innovation par rapport à la Chine : un écart annuel estimé en R&D&I d'environ 6,6 ... Read more

    R265,75 or Free with Kobo Plus