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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

    R202,62

  • 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 147,27

  • 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 834,05

  • 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 ... Read more

    R217,22

  • 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 tell ... ... Read more

    R201,70

  • 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 490,37

  • The Denniston Rose

    by Jenny Pattrick ...
    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

    R186,17

  • DESIGN OF UNDERGROUND INSTALLATIONS IN ROCK

    Army Tech Manual TM 5-857-3

    by U.S. Army ...
    Army Technical Manual TM 5-857-3This obscure and unusual 1961 manual details how the U.S. military goes about planning/constructing underground installations and bases. Chock-full of intricate details on design criteria, costing, construction methods and various special features like multiple portals, blast doors, ventilation considerations. If you ever wanted to build your own secret underground ... Read more

    R36,35

  • The Gold Cache

    by James Willard Schultz ...
    "Exciting adventures in their search for buried gold." -The Publishers Weekly (1917)"James Willard Schultz...the author of 'The Gold Cache,' is fortified for true western stories by years of experience as an Indian trader...rapidly moving western action, told as only a man such as Schultz could write, a man who has seen the things he depicts." -Arizona Republic, Dec. 6, 1917"J.W. Schultz, one of ... Read more

    R82,10

  • Land of Lead

    by Brian Davies ...
    Fascinating volume of history, shedding light on the lead mining industry in Ceredigion and shipping from Aberystwyth, through the story of four generations of interlinked families in north Ceredigion in the 19th and 20th centuries. Comprises copies of 16 previously unpublished 19th-century watercolour paintings. ... Read more

    R130,28 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 777,81

  • 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 191,32

  • Geomechanical Controls on Fracture Development in Chalk and Marl in the Danish North Sea

    Understanding and Predicting Fracture Systems

    Edited by Michael John Welch, Mikael Lüthje ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book summarizes new discoveries on fracturing in chalk. Based on studies on the Danish North Sea, this book shows how observations from outcrop analogues, core and seismic data can be used to characterize the density, distribution and geometry of natural fractures in chalk and marl. Laboratory experiments on chalk samples reveal the controls on the geomechanical properties of chalk and thus ... Read more

    R1 736,14

  • Cradle to Grave

    Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines

    by Larry Lankton ...
    Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface. For the first fifty years of development, these mining communities remained remarkably harmonious, ... Read more

    R584,42

  • Opencast Images

    An Informal Look at British Coal Opencast Sites

    by Dave Wootton ...
    In the United Kingdom surface coal mining began in 1942 in response to a national shortage of deep-mined coal. By the 1980s, when Dave Wootton began touring sites and taking photographs, the industry was firmly established with major operations and very large machinery. His fully captioned pictures cover the period from 1986 until British Coal Opencast (BCO) was privatised in 1994. There are ... Read more

    R182,43 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practical Conservation Biology

    by David Lindenmayer, Mark Burgman ...
    Practical Conservation Biology covers the complete array of topics that are central to conservation biology and natural resource management, thus providing the essential framework for under-graduate and post-graduate courses in these subject areas. Written by two of the world’s leading environment experts, it is a ‘must have’ reference for environment professionals in government, non-government ... Read more

    R1 022,22

  • Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources

    Proceedings of the International Forum-Contest of Young Researchers, April 18-20, 2018, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Edited by Vladimir Litvinenko ...
    Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources contains the contributions presented at International Forum-Contest of Young Researchers 2018 (St. Petersburg Mining University, Russia, 18-20 April 2018). The Forum-Contest is an excellent opportunity for young researchers to present their work to the scientific community involved in the extraction and processing of natural resources.The topics ... Read more

    R4 986,24

  • The Crackerjacks

    by Mike Dupont ...
    crack•er•jack (ˈkræk ərˌdʒæk) n. a person or thing that shows marked ability or excellence. The Knoxgold mining company has cheated Joe McDonald and his crew out of their hard-earned bonus, and there’s nothing that they can do about it — until they discover an unknown gold-vein deep inside the mine. Together, they devise a plan to get it past security. The Crackerjacks are mining experts, but do ... Read more

    R182,12

  • 矿山机械液压系统的构建（第2版）

    by 彭伦天, 王一刚 ...
    本书在内容设置上借鉴了德国、澳大利亚等国际职业教育的先进教学理念，基于工作过程设计教学活动，全书由易到难设置了4个学习情境。主要介绍了构成矿山机械液压系统的各种液压元件的结构、工作原理、性能特点、选择和应用，矿山机械的典型液压传动系统的分析及组建等本书是高职高专教育三年制矿山机电类专业教材，也适合作为成人高校、中等职业学校机电类专业的教材，同时可供矿山企业工程技术人员参考或作为自学用书。 ... Read more

    Was R56,51 Now R50,64

  • Coal Mining in Lancashire & Cheshire

    by Alan Davies ...
    The area of Lancashire and Cheshire can be considered one of the homes of the Industrial Revolution, and it was the abundance of coal close to the surface that literally helped fuel the great growth in cities such as Manchester and Liverpool. With poor roads, it was easier to move coal by water and so Lancashire landowners developed the first canals in Britain. Lancashire coal powered the cotton ... Read more

    Was R426,06 Now R382,59

  • Mining and the Peruvian State

    Social and Environmental Sustainability

    Edited by John Crabtree, Gonzalo Delgado J. ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This book examines the social, environmental, and political sustainability of Peru’s mining industry as it seeks to garner the benefits of the energy transition between now and 2050.As the global shift toward net-zero emissions accelerates, Peru is uniquely positioned to play a vital role in the energy transition, thanks to its abundant reserves of critical minerals. This growing global demand ... Read more

    R1 071,79

  • Sustainability in the Mineral and Energy Sectors

    Edited by Sheila Devasahayam, Kim Dowling, Manoj K. Mahapatra ...
    Sustainable practices within the mining and energy sectors are assuming greater significance due to uncertainty and change within the global economy and safety, security, and health concerns. This book examines sustainability issues facing the mining and energy sectors by addressing six major themes: Mining and Mineral Processing; Metallurgy and Recycling; Environment; Energy; Socioeconomic and ... Read more

    R2 168,77

  • The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh

    Edited by Ronald M. James, Robert E. Stewart ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their search for wealth took them from San Francisco into the gold country and then over the Sierra into Nevada’s Gold Canyon, where they placer-mined for gold and discovered a deposit of silver. The letters they sent back to ... Read more

    R364,65