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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 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

    Free

  • 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 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

  • 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 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

  • Proceedings of the International Field Exploration and Development Conference 2022

    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 12th International Field Exploration and Development Conference (IFEDC ... Read more

    R10 492,47

  • Caja de herramientas del sector minero: formas de legislar

    by Andrés Gómez-Rey ...
    Series Book 2 - Gestión ambiental
    Este texto describe empírica y técnicamente las formas de legitimación legal diseñadas por el Estado colombiano para lograr incluir en el cumplimiento normativo a aquellos mineros que por diversas razones no atienden los requisitos impuestos. La obra está dividida en tres capítulos: en el primero se realiza una exposición sobre la posible clasificación de la minería para mostrar las diferentes ... Read more

    R89,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Enhanced Oil Recovery Handout: A Focus on Waterflooding

    by felix Mutuma ...
    This is a practical and informative eBook that gives a deeper understanding of waterflooding and its contribution to enhanced oil recovery.Chapter One: Introduction- A brief of enhanced oil recovery techniques- The history of waterflooding- Answers the question "What is waterflooding in oil and gas ?"Chapter 2: Factors influencing waterfloodingThe chapter discusses:- waterflooding performance ... Read more

    R99,55

  • How To Mine Bitcoin:

    Learn How To Mine Cryptocurrency

    by Patt Tomas ...
    How to get your start in Bitcoin investing or mining.Here You will learn the tools of the trade and be shown how to use them on an entry level.I want people to know how to use these tools to benefit themselves. IT is not that hard to get into mining, but it is an investment to get into. The world of Cryptocurrency is hard and ever changing, but it is a good thing to know. So welcome to the first ... Read more

    R149,41 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Irish Sea Lime Trade

    by Dr David Johnson ...
    Quarrying of limestone and converting it to quicklime was a major industry around the Irish Sea coasts for many centuries, and it is an aspect of these islands’ industrial legacy that has received little attention. David Johnson has spent years researching it in the field and in archive centres and has been amazed by its scale and geographical extent. Up to the nineteenth century, quicklime was ... Read more

    R231,48

  • Earth Science for Civil and Environmental Engineers

    by Richard E. Jackson ...
    This carefully targeted and rigorous new textbook introduces engineering students to the fundamental principles of applied Earth science, highlighting how modern soil and rock mechanics, geomorphology, hydrogeology, seismology and environmental geochemistry affect geotechnical and environmental practice. Key geological topics of engineering relevance including soils and sediments, rocks, ... Read more

    R1 218,53

  • The Creation of the first cryptocurrency

    The financial journey of Bitcoin and it's challenge's

    by Mark C. Wilson ...
    Do you know the true history of Bitcoin if noThis book gives you the perfect, complete and accurate history/origin of Bitcoin From creation to this day And also teaches you how to be a successful crypto trader because the true way to understanding is by going to the root buy and be equip with the right crypto knowledge to become a successful trader. ... Read more

    R95,37 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tennessee's Great Copper Basin

    by Harriet Frye ...
    Series series Images of America
    In 1843, the discovery of copper in Tennessee's far southeastern corner sparked a transformation in the isolated area known to geologists as the Ducktown Basin. By 1854, the first shafts had been sunk, and 28 mining companies had been incorporated for the purpose of exploring the possible wealth of the Ducktown district. For generations to come, the families of mine captains from Cornwall, ... Read more

    R226,70 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ore Mining in the Lake District

    by Alastair Cameron, Liz Withey ...
    The Lake District mountains are full of mineral veins. Many have been discovered and worked over the past 1,000 years. Many still remain to be discovered. The last working metal-ore mine in the Lake District, the Force Crag Mine, closed in 1986. It is believed that mining commenced at Force Crag during the fifthteenth century. Today, remains of this past extensive industry lie abandoned on the ... Read more

    R215,38

  • Proceedings of the TMIC 2022 Slope Stability Conference (TMIC 2022)

    Edited by Sina Javankhoshdel, Yousef Abolfazlzadeh ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This is an open access book.TVSeminars is an online platform for virtual interactive presentations in the mining and geotechnical field. With audiences from over 58 countries around the world, TVSeminars aims to provide access to high quality seminars for all professionals. ... Read more

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  • Undermining Risk and Technical Communication

    Extractive Industry, Cascading Disaster, and the Global Climate Crisis

    by Timothy R. Amidon, Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder, Daniel P. Richards, Donnie Johnson Sackey ...
    Series series SUNY series, Studies in Technical Communication
    Changes the conversation about risk by exposing the field's historical complicity with extractive industries and building new methodologies for future risk communication research.Technical and professional communication has a problem with how the concept of risk has been considered alongside extractive technologies. Throughout its history, the practice, teaching, and research of technical and ... Read more

    R580,28

  • Geoenvironmental and Geotechnical Issues of Coal Mine Overburden and Mine Tailings

    Edited by Sarat Kumar Das, Krishna R. Reddy, Lohitkumar Nainegali, Surabhi Jain ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This contributed book edited by leading global experts focuses on the geoenvironmental and geotechnical issues of coal mine overburden and mine tailings and its unengineered dumping. It aims to provide knowledge-based information for diverse readers to assess, monitor, and manage coal mine overburden and mine tailings in various engineering applications while highlighting efficient solutions to ... Read more

    R2 493,76

  • Interfacial Phenomena in Coal Technology

    by Botsaris ...
    Series series Surfactant Science
    A different face of coal than that seen by miners. Focusses on the conversion of coal to a liquid and the clean utilization of coal. Among topics discussed are surface phenomena involved in the beneficiation processes, flotation and spherical agglomeration, and the modification of coal-fluid interfaces. ... Read more

    R5 900,92

  • Mantenimiento Preventivo Avanzado: Estrategias de Alto Impacto para Maximizar la Confiabilidad Industrial

    by Yolanda Mercedes Sánchez Pezo ...
    El mantenimiento preventivo industrial ha evolucionado considerablemente a lo largo de las últimas décadas, consolidándose como un pilar fundamental en la gestión eficiente de cualquier operación industrial. A medida que la competencia global se intensifica y las empresas buscan maximizar la productividad y minimizar los costos operativos, la importancia de contar con un programa de mantenimiento ... Read more

    R166,03 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender Inequalities in Africa’s Mining Policies

    A Study of Inequalities, Resource Conflict and Sustainability

    by Francis Onditi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book develops a discursive ‘equalitarian’ theoretical framework for studying African mining ecosystem issues and policy interventions. The theory of ‘equalitarianism’ is developed as an alternative to the reductionist approach that has dominated post-colonial debates about the classical jus ad bellum requirements to empower women in development spaces. However, the classical approach narrows ... Read more

    R1 959,36

  • Sustainable Mining Governance

    Social, Environmental and Political Discussions

    Edited by J. Andrés Domínguez-Gómez, André Xavier, Rocio Muñoz-Moreno ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This volume provides a transdisciplinary analysis of the political, social and environmental aspects of governance and its implementation in the mining sector.In a world profoundly shaped by the energy transition and the urgency of climate change, mining faces a dual challenge. On the one hand, it is expected to play a crucial role in the shift toward a more sustainable socioeconomic model. On the ... Read more

    R1 231,24