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Diamonds, Gold, and War

The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

by Martin Meredith ...

Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and
... Read more
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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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
Big Data

A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Kenneth Cukier ...

A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes before they explode? And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak?The key to ... Read more

$13.99 USD

A revelatory exploration of the hottest trend in technology and the dramatic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society at large.Which paint color is most likely to tell you that a used car is in good shape? How can officials identify the most dangerous New York City manholes before they explode? And how did Google searches predict the spread of the H1N1 flu outbreak?The key to
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PolyMet

14 Years Of Bullshit

by Steve Timmer, Aaron Klemz, Jen Tuder, Tony Petrangelo ...

PolyMet: Fourteen Years of Bullshit is the story of ineptitude, inattention, and outright corruption by Minnesota and federal regulators in consideration of permits for copper sulfide mining near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota for PolyMet Mining, a Canadian penny-stock company and its shadowy bad-boy backer, Glencore Plc. It is also the story of the failure of Minnesota’s political leadership to intervene, ... Read more

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PolyMet: Fourteen Years of Bullshit is the story of ineptitude, inattention, and outright corruption by Minnesota and federal regulators in consideration of permits for copper sulfide mining near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota for PolyMet Mining, a Canadian penny-stock company and its shadowy bad-boy backer, Glencore Plc. It is also the story of the failure of Minnesota’s political leadership to intervene,
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The Roar and the Silence

A History of Virginia City and the Comstock Lode

by Ronald M. James ...

Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its ... Read more

$19.43 USD

Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its
... Read more
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

$95.30 USD

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
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

$9.53 USD

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
Gold: Greed, innovations, daring and wealth

by Jill Blee ...

Since ancient times gold has exerted a powerful fascination for humankind. Symbol of wealth and riches, it has influenced the rise and fall of empires and changed the course of history. In Australia, its discovery sparked frenzied gold rushes that opened up large parts of the land to settlement, transformed Melbourne and Sydney from colonial outposts into two of the worlds most vibrant cities, and ... Read more

$4.49 USD

Since ancient times gold has exerted a powerful fascination for humankind. Symbol of wealth and riches, it has influenced the rise and fall of empires and changed the course of history. In Australia, its discovery sparked frenzied gold rushes that opened up large parts of the land to settlement, transformed Melbourne and Sydney from colonial outposts into two of the worlds most vibrant cities, and
... Read more
Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom

Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely

by Russell R. Elliott ...

Twenty years after the decline of the magnificent Comstock Lode, Nevada’s prosperity and population had diminished to such a degree that some popular articles questioned whether to deprive Nevada of her statehood. Then in the spring of 1900, a miner discovered silver in south-central Nevada. This casual find precipitated a spectacular latter-day mining boom that, among other things, helped to ... Read more

$14.30 USD

Twenty years after the decline of the magnificent Comstock Lode, Nevada’s prosperity and population had diminished to such a degree that some popular articles questioned whether to deprive Nevada of her statehood. Then in the spring of 1900, a miner discovered silver in south-central Nevada. This casual find precipitated a spectacular latter-day mining boom that, among other things, helped to
... Read more
Boomtown Saloons

Archaeology And History In Virginia City

by Kelly J. Dixon ...

Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
The image of Old West saloons as sites of violence and raucous entertainment has been perpetuated by film and legend, but the true story of such establishments is far more complex. In Boomtown Saloons, archaeologist Kelly J. Dixon recounts the excavation of four historic saloon sites in Nevada’s Virginia City, one of the West’s most important boomtowns, and shows how the physical traces of this ... Read more

$14.30 USD

The image of Old West saloons as sites of violence and raucous entertainment has been perpetuated by film and legend, but the true story of such establishments is far more complex. In Boomtown Saloons, archaeologist Kelly J. Dixon recounts the excavation of four historic saloon sites in Nevada’s Virginia City, one of the West’s most important boomtowns, and shows how the physical traces of this
... Read more
Mercury and the Making of California

Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890

by Andrew Scott Johnston ...

Series series Mining the American West
Mercury and the Making of California, Andrew Johnston’s multidisciplinary examination of the history and cultural landscapes of California’s mercury-mining industry, raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in the development of the American West.Gold and silver could not be refined without mercury; therefore, its production and use were vital to securing power and wealth in ... Read more

$26.54 USD

Mercury and the Making of California, Andrew Johnston’s multidisciplinary examination of the history and cultural landscapes of California’s mercury-mining industry, raises mercury to its rightful place alongside gold and silver in the development of the American West.Gold and silver could not be refined without mercury; therefore, its production and use were vital to securing power and wealth in
... Read more
After The Boom In Tombstone And Jerome, Arizona

Decline In Western Resource Towns

by Eric L. Clements ...

Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas—Tombstone and Jerome—historian Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecting the process of bust itself—the reasons and manners in which these towns declined as the mining booms ended. Tombstone was the site of one of the great silver bonanzas of the nineteenth century, a boom that started in the late 1870s and was over by ... Read more

$22.67 USD

Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas—Tombstone and Jerome—historian Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecting the process of bust itself—the reasons and manners in which these towns declined as the mining booms ended. Tombstone was the site of one of the great silver bonanzas of the nineteenth century, a boom that started in the late 1870s and was over by
... Read more
Riesgos Y Peligros

Exploraciones Geológicas Para La Minería En Gran Altura Geográfica

by Helvio Soto Salles ...

El creciente desarrollo de la actividad minera ha trasladado la industria a lugares que eran insospechados hace unos aos, como es la altura geogrfica o las zonas remotas. Este hecho, obliga hoy a las mineras a efectuar una demanda de profesionales y trabajadores debidamente capacitados para desenvolverse de manera segura ante los nuevos riesgos a que se vern enfrentados. En consecuencia, el ... Read more

$7.82 USD

El creciente desarrollo de la actividad minera ha trasladado la industria a lugares que eran insospechados hace unos aos, como es la altura geogrfica o las zonas remotas. Este hecho, obliga hoy a las mineras a efectuar una demanda de profesionales y trabajadores debidamente capacitados para desenvolverse de manera segura ante los nuevos riesgos a que se vern enfrentados. En consecuencia, el
... Read more
Lake Eyre Basin Rivers

Environmental, Social and Economic Importance

Edited by Richard Kingsford ...

Water is scarce in the Lake Eyre Basin in the heart of Australia. The region goes through natural cycles of boom and bust, and the flooding of the basin rivers is accompanied by spectacular responses from wildlife and vegetation. However, the Lake Eyre Basin faces the threat of diversion of water from rivers and wetlands and development of floodplains for irrigation and mining. Around the world, ... Read more

$29.15 USD

Water is scarce in the Lake Eyre Basin in the heart of Australia. The region goes through natural cycles of boom and bust, and the flooding of the basin rivers is accompanied by spectacular responses from wildlife and vegetation. However, the Lake Eyre Basin faces the threat of diversion of water from rivers and wetlands and development of floodplains for irrigation and mining. Around the world,
... Read more
The ECPH Encyclopedia of Mining and Metallurgy

Edited by Kuangdi Xu ...

This encyclopedia volume comprehensively reflects the basic knowledge and latest research results in the field of mining and metallurgy technology, as well as the latest characteristics of the development in this field. In this reference book, the knowledge system, basic concepts, basic theories, as well as important figures, representative works and institutions of these two engineering ... Read more

$2,834.99 USD

This encyclopedia volume comprehensively reflects the basic knowledge and latest research results in the field of mining and metallurgy technology, as well as the latest characteristics of the development in this field. In this reference book, the knowledge system, basic concepts, basic theories, as well as important figures, representative works and institutions of these two engineering
... Read more
Uranium and Nuclear Energy: 1981

Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium Held by the Uranium Institute, London, 2 – 4 September, 1981

by Sam Stuart ...

Uranium and Nuclear Energy: 1981 is a collection of 27 papers presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Uranium and Nuclear Energy, held by The Uranium Institute, London on September 2-4, 1981. This six-part volume represents a true cross-section of world opinion on nuclear matters. After briefly discussing the leading problems linked to world's energy and ideas concerning possible ... Read more

$59.12 USD

Uranium and Nuclear Energy: 1981 is a collection of 27 papers presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Uranium and Nuclear Energy, held by The Uranium Institute, London on September 2-4, 1981. This six-part volume represents a true cross-section of world opinion on nuclear matters. After briefly discussing the leading problems linked to world's energy and ideas concerning possible
... Read more
Intelligent Evaluation of Coalbed Methane Target Selection Under Complex Geological Conditions

by Gaofeng Liu, Zhen Zhang, Huan Liu, Ping Chang, George Barakos ...

Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
This book starts from the perspective of "geological engineering integration" in coalbed methane development and conducts a detailed analysis and evaluation of the geological conditions (including regional geology and resource geology) and mining conditions (including reservoir recoverability and modifiability) that affect coalbed methane development. It establishes the optimal evaluation ... Read more

$161.18 USD

This book starts from the perspective of "geological engineering integration" in coalbed methane development and conducts a detailed analysis and evaluation of the geological conditions (including regional geology and resource geology) and mining conditions (including reservoir recoverability and modifiability) that affect coalbed methane development. It establishes the optimal evaluation
... Read more
Railways and Industry in the Tondu Valleys

Ogmore, Garw & Porthcawl Branches

by John Hodge, Stuart Davies ...

Series series South Wales Valleys
A photo-filled history of this part of Welsh coal country and its freight and passenger service.Following the first volume dealing with the Llynfi Valley, this book provides details on individual aspects of railways operation focusing on the Ogmore, Garw, and Porthcawl branches in this area of South Wales. The books give a history of the railway, coal mining, and other industrial aspects of each ... Read more

$11.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A photo-filled history of this part of Welsh coal country and its freight and passenger service.Following the first volume dealing with the Llynfi Valley, this book provides details on individual aspects of railways operation focusing on the Ogmore, Garw, and Porthcawl branches in this area of South Wales. The books give a history of the railway, coal mining, and other industrial aspects of each
... Read more
Kupfer aus Stadtberge

Die Entwicklung des Kupferbergbaus 1844 - 1945 auf den Gruben Friederike, Oskar und Mina

by Petra Ackermann, Manfred Pauly, Gerd Rosenkranz ...

Der Kupferbergbau prägte die Geschichte von Stadtberge, dem heutigen Marsberg. Bereits seit dem frühen Mittelalter wurde an Diemel und Glinde Kupfer gewonnen - ein wirtschaftlicher Faktor, der möglicherweise auch zur strategischen Bedeutung der Region beitrug, als Karl der Große im Jahr 772 mit der Eroberung der Eresburg hier die Sachsenkriege begann. Der Band untersucht die räumliche Entwicklung ... Read more

$16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Der Kupferbergbau prägte die Geschichte von Stadtberge, dem heutigen Marsberg. Bereits seit dem frühen Mittelalter wurde an Diemel und Glinde Kupfer gewonnen - ein wirtschaftlicher Faktor, der möglicherweise auch zur strategischen Bedeutung der Region beitrug, als Karl der Große im Jahr 772 mit der Eroberung der Eresburg hier die Sachsenkriege begann. Der Band untersucht die räumliche Entwicklung
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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

$6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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
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Gold-Mining Boomtown

People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory

by Roberta Key Haldane ...

The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.Today, fewer than a hundred people live in White Oaks. Its ... Read more

$19.43 USD

The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.Today, fewer than a hundred people live in White Oaks. Its
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From Two Lines

The Life Story of Captain Josiah Holman

by Michael Webb ...

Curiosity got the better of me when I read Captain Holman's letter of 11 January 1859 where he wrote...I have been abroad six times viz. - to the Philippine Islands, the Brazils, twice to the Canadas and the Native Copper Mines of Lake Superior - to South Africa and lastly to Malacca .But these were only a few of the countries this Cornish miner explored for mineral wealth.This is an imaginative ... Read more

$6.29 USD

Curiosity got the better of me when I read Captain Holman's letter of 11 January 1859 where he wrote...I have been abroad six times viz. - to the Philippine Islands, the Brazils, twice to the Canadas and the Native Copper Mines of Lake Superior - to South Africa and lastly to Malacca .But these were only a few of the countries this Cornish miner explored for mineral wealth.This is an imaginative
... Read more
电解锰节能减排理论与工程应用

by 陶长元, 刘作华, 范兴 ...

陶長元、劉作華、範興著的《電解錳節能減排理論與工程應用》是一本關於電解錳節能減排理論與實踐方面的專著。全書從錳產業的現狀出發，分析了礦資源利用技術現狀；著重以電解錳為例，從錳礦浸出、溶液除雜淨化、電解、三廢利用及處理、新裝備開發等介紹了節能減排及過程強化新理論、新工藝、新技術；從非平衡態熱力學及非線性動力學的角度闡釋了電解錳能耗與內在非線性機制之間的關係，進而提出了新的節能降耗理論和思路；同時全書結合工程實踐應用，深入淺出地介紹了減排新工藝、新技術。 ... Read more

$5.64 USD

陶長元、劉作華、範興著的《電解錳節能減排理論與工程應用》是一本關於電解錳節能減排理論與實踐方面的專著。全書從錳產業的現狀出發，分析了礦資源利用技術現狀；著重以電解錳為例，從錳礦浸出、溶液除雜淨化、電解、三廢利用及處理、新裝備開發等介紹了節能減排及過程強化新理論、新工藝、新技術；從非平衡態熱力學及非線性動力學的角度闡釋了電解錳能耗與內在非線性機制之間的關係，進而提出了新的節能降耗理論和思路；同時全書結合工程實踐應用，深入淺出地介紹了減排新工藝、新技術。
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La Minería ha Muerto. Larga Vida a la Minería Geopolítica

Cómo China y Occidente transformaron los minerales críticos en poder geopolítico

by Eduardo Zamanillo, Marta Rivera ...

La minería ha muerto. Viva la geopolítica minera.Cómo China y Occidente transformaron los minerales críticos en poder geopolítico**.**Occidente enfrentó la minería desde una mirada jurídica y burocrática: multiplicó normas, procesos y autorizaciones, pero perdió de vista el propósito. China, en cambio, actuó con mentalidad de ingeniero: diseñó el sistema, construyó refinerías y aseguró el control ... Read more

$8.99 USD

La minería ha muerto. Viva la geopolítica minera.Cómo China y Occidente transformaron los minerales críticos en poder geopolítico**.**Occidente enfrentó la minería desde una mirada jurídica y burocrática: multiplicó normas, procesos y autorizaciones, pero perdió de vista el propósito. China, en cambio, actuó con mentalidad de ingeniero: diseñó el sistema, construyó refinerías y aseguró el control
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