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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 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 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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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 Gold Crusades

    A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929

    by Douglas Fetherling ...
    Series series Heritage
    Among the hordes of starry-eyed 'argonauts' who flocked to the California gold rush of 1849 was an Australian named Edward Hargraves. He left America empty-handed, only to find gold in his own backyard. The result was the great Australian rush of the 1850s, which also attracted participants from around the world. A South African named P.J. Marais was one of them. Marais too returned home in defeat ... Read more

    R733,23

  • Advances in Pyrometallurgy

    Developing Low Carbon Pathways

    Edited by Camille Fleuriault, Joalet D. Steenkamp, Dean Gregurek, Jesse F. White, Quinn G. Reynolds, Phillip J. Mackey, Susanna A.C. Hockaday ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Carbon intensive industries are at a crossroads. Long-term manufacturing plans using pyrometallurgical processes all include decarbonization levers: we must solve the problem of fossil-based reduction and fossil-based power generation processes for metals production. This collection explores innovative and diverse strategies for the enablement of low carbon industries in the high-temperature ... Read more

    R3 723,11

  • Rare Metal Technology 2025

    Edited by Kerstin Forsberg, Athanasios Karamalidis, Takanari Ouchi, Gisele Azimi, Shafiq Alam, Neale R. Neelameggham, Alafara Abdullahi Baba, Hong Peng, Hojong Kim ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume presents papers from a symposium on extraction of rare metals from primary and secondary materials and residues as well as rare extraction processing techniques used in metal production. The collection covers the extraction of less common or minor metals including elements such as antimony, bismuth, barium, beryllium, boron, calcium, chromium, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, ... Read more

    R3 206,42

  • Its Been a Blast

    by Jack Shaft ...
    Jack started his mining career at the tender age of 18 in the deep gold mines of the Transvaal in South Africa. At the time of writing he still works in the industry... sometimes. It's been a bunch of booze-ups, fights, and mining mishaps from the very beginning, set against the backdrop of the cultural miasma of mining locations all over the world. This book recalls some of the stories, the lies, ... Read more

    R83,10

  • Mining, Mobility, and Social Change in the Global South

    Regional Perspectives

    Edited by Gerardo Castillo Guzmán, Matthew Himley, David Brereton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This volume focuses on how, why, under what conditions, and with what effects people move across space in relation to mining, asking how a focus on spatial mobility can aid scholars and policymakers in understanding the complex relation between mining and social change.This collection centers the concept of mobility to address the diversity of mining-related population movements as well as the ... Read more

    R1 025,99

  • Diamonds

    (Illustrated Edition)

    by William Crookes ...
    Series Title: Harper's library of living thoughtThe following pages are based on personal observations during two visits to Kimberley, in 1896 and 1905, and on personal researches on the formation and artificial production of diamonds. In 1896 I spent nearly a month at Kimberley, when Mr. Gardner F. Williams, the General Manager of the De Beers Consolidated Mines, and the managers of neighbouring ... Read more

    R82,93 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chasing Colour - the quest for Australia's Opal

    by Ross Thompson ...
    Australia's opal fields are unlike any other mining landscape on Earth.Far from the corporate empires of diamonds, gold, and precious metals, the opal industry remains defiantly small‑scale, fiercely independent, and deeply human. There are no cartels here, no global conglomerates, no billion‑dollar machinery fleets. Instead, the opal fields are shaped by individuals — men and women working claims ... Read more

    R82,93 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poor Man's Fortune

    White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950

    by Jarod Roll ...
    White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man’s Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the ... Read more

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  • Geoecology and Computers

    Edited by Sergey A. Yufin ...
    This volume presents technical papers devoted to development and practical use of computer methods in geotechnical and geoenviromental engineering. It covers issues on space use and construction, soil and rock mechanics, and mining applications amongst other topics. ... Read more

    R6 029,20

  • Industrial Explosives and their Applications for Rock Excavation

    by Marilena Cardu, Daniele Martinelli, Carmine Todaro ...
    Industrial Explosives and their Applications for Rock Excavation focuses on applications of industrial explosives in civil and mining engineering works. Explosives and their actions are explained in terms of basics, principles, and related chemistry. Explosives and initiation devices are described, including their characteristics, geometry, and timing aspects of the blast design. Designing blasts ... Read more

    R2 334,46

  • Future Transitions in the Mining Industry

    Challenges, Controversies and Responses

    Edited by Tuija Mononen, Lasse Peltonen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This volume focuses on mining and the challenges for this industry as it transitions and evolves as the demand for products and responsible and sustainable mining ever increases.Mining is a prerequisite for modern society, yet the industry is often criticized for having many negative environmental and social impacts. The volume explores the challenges, controversies and responses that arise when a ... Read more

    R1 231,24

  • Data Analytics Applied to the Mining Industry

    by Ali Soofastaei ...
    Data Analytics Applied to the Mining Industry describes the key challenges facing the mining sector as it transforms into a digital industry able to fully exploit process automation, remote operation centers, autonomous equipment and the opportunities offered by the industrial internet of things. It provides guidelines on how data needs to be collected, stored and managed to enable the different ... Read more

    R1 821,33

  • A Retractable Guidance System for Mine Shaft Hoists

    by Paweł Kamiński ...
    Rope guidance of conveyances is commonly used in shafts of underground mines in numerous countries on almost every continent. This safe and economical way of guiding skips and cages does have one disadvantage, however, which is especially troublesome in the conditions present in the Polish mining industry. Rope-guided conveyances require additional support at mine levels, while shafts of Polish ... Read more

    R1 385,18

  • Fracking 101

    A Beginner's Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing

    by Eric George ...
    Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing to give its proper name, has become part of our lives recently, due to the massive exploitation of America’s shale oil and gas fields. Along the way it has stirred up controversy, with passionate opponents fighting against the oil companies. The fight has generated a lot of heat, but not much understanding. This guide, written by some-one who knows what he is ... Read more

    R71,27

  • Anuario iberoamericano de derecho minero

    Fundamentos jurídicos del sector minero en Iberoamérica

    by Varios Autores ...
    Ante la necesidad de promover el conocimiento técnico e informado del sector minero, el Departamento de Derecho Minero-Energético de la Universidad Externado de Colombia presenta a la comunidad académica, autoridades, empresas, comunidades y organizaciones civiles, el primer Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Minero, obra colectiva preparada por `profesionales del derecho conocedores del sector en ... Read more

    R139,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gambling on Ore

    The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860–1910

    by Kent Curtis ...
    Series series Mining the American West
    Gambling on Ore examines the development of the western mining industry from the tumultuous and violent Gold Rush to the elevation of large-scale copper mining in the early twentieth century, using Montana as representative of mining developments in the broader US mining west. Employing abundant new historical evidence in key primary and secondary sources, Curtis tells the story of the inescapable ... Read more

    R580,28