Mining category: 116 books
Seeing Underground
Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Digging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such as the Comstock Lode,...
by Manoj Dole
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Mining Engineering is a simple e-Book for Mining Diploma & Engineering Course, Revised Syllabus in 2018, It contains objective questions with underlined & bold correct answers MCQ covering all topics including all about the latest & Important about Computer application, Engineering mechanics,...
Calaveras Gold
The Impact Of Mining On A Mother Lode County
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2003
California’s Calaveras County—made famous by Mark Twain and his celebrated Jumping Frog—is the focus of this comprehensive study of Mother Lode mining. Most histories of the California Mother Lode have focused on the mines around the American and Yuba Rivers. However, the “Southern Mines”—those...
Gambling on Ore
The Nature of Metal Mining in the United States, 1860–1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
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...
The History of Mining
The events, technology and people involved in the industry that forged the modern world
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
THE INDUSTRY THAT FORGED THE MODERN WORLD Throughout history metals and raw materials have underpinned human activity. So it is that the industry responsible for extracting these materials from the ground - mining - has been ever present throughout the history of civilisation, from the ancient world...
Mining and Sustainable Development
Current Issues
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Mining is a transformative activity which has numerous economic, social and environmental impacts. These impacts can be both positive and adverse, enhancing as well as disrupting economies, ecosystems and communities. The extractive industries have been criticised heavily for their adverse impacts...
Butte: an Unfinished Story
Wedgwood, Darwin, Ryerson, Hawkesworth - Related Men of Genius
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
"A mining intrigue radiates from Butte, Montana when an inventor and son get engulfed by the Anaconda Copper Mining Company before and during the Great Depression and World War II. Exploitation of mine workers, safety and environmental issues ensue. The family meets the challenges. The Company...
Mining in Latin America
Critical Approaches to the New Extraction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America. This shift has brought mining more visibly into global public debates and spurred a great deal of controversy and conflict....
Treasure Hill
Portrait Of A Silver Mining Camp
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
In 1868, the discovery of an exceptionally rich silver ore on Treasure Hill in eastern Nevada led to an intense but short-lived boom. The White Pine Mining District was quickly organized, and in time a new Nevada county was created with that name. The boom lasted only two seasons, but dogged investors,...
Mercury and the Making of California
Mining, Landscape, and Race, 1840–1890
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
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...
A Kennecott Story
Three Mines, Four Men, and One Hundred Years, 1887-1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
While copper seems less glamorous than gold, it may be far more important. Copper proved vital to the industrial revolution and indispensable for electrification of America. Kennecott Copper Corporation, at one time the largest producer of copper in the world, thus played a key role in economic and...
by Kathleen Smith, YubaRoots
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Mining in Yuba County illustrates the story of how this geologically unique part of California drew multitudes of people from around the world during the early days of the Gold Rush. It depicts the region's evolution from anarchy to civilization. It gives faces to the individuals who were instrumental...
Mountain Movers
Mining, Sustainability and the Agents of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
The products of mining are everywhere – if it wasn’t grown, it was mined or drilled. But the mining industry has a chequered past. Pollution, human rights abuses, and corruption have tarnished the reputation of the industry across the globe. Over a decade ago the major mining companies embraced...
by Ken Wain
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Barnsley, Rotherham and Worksop sit on top of the Midland coalfield, stretching from Nottingham into Yorkshire and the mining industry in this area once supported tens of thousands of jobs in collieries dotted across the landscape. In this book, the culmination of some forty years of research, author...