Mining technology and engineering Books

Dieses Buch ist eine umfassende Einführung in die Steinbruchindustrie und die Steinbruchgeologie. Der Autor Max Otto Hermann gibt einen Überblick über die verschiedenen Gesteinsarten, ihre Entstehung und ihre Verwendung. Dabei geht es auch um technische...

In this comprehensive guide to gold milling, author Henry Louis provides an in-depth look at the processes and techniques involved in extracting gold from ore. The book covers everything from the chemistry of the refining process to the mechanics of the...

This book, written by John Huffman Dague, is a visual guide to understanding mine accidents and their prevention. Illustrated with 200 pictures taken by W.B. Bunnell, the official photographer of the D.L.W.R.R. company, this book is especially adapted...

Uncover the rich history and intriguing personalities behind the Black Hills mining industry with this extensive collection of papers and statistics. This volume provides a fascinating glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the men and women who...

In Hollowed Ground, author Larry Lankton tells the story of two copper industries on Lake Superior-native copper mining, which produced about 11 billion pounds of the metal from the 1840s until the late 1960s, and copper sulfide mining, which began in...

The Second Rush is a history of the minerals boom in Australia over the half-century from the early 1960s to the end of the China minerals boom in 2012. The earlier substantial mining boom—the gold rush of the nineteenth century—created...

Our modern world is dominated by oil. Many of the policies of national governments are based on the desire for its acquisition. Regimes have been overthrown in order to gain control of this valuable commodity. And it wasn't that much different one...

- by Lewis E. Aubury - A rare publication from 1910 put out by the State Mineralogist covers the districts that California's massive river dredges once mined. This Comprehensive 350 page book is jam packed full of pictures, descriptions of the deposits...

""Peat Deposits of Ohio: Their Origin, Formation and Uses"" is a book written by Alfred Paul Dachnowski and published in 1912. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the peat deposits found in Ohio, including their origin, formation, and uses...

AusIMM's Mill Operators Conference 2024 is an acclaimed industry event that brings together industry professionals and subject matter experts to discuss advancing best practice, emerging technologies and global factors impacting mill operations.

The Future Mining Conference series has been a forum for communication between current and future industry leaders, technologists, scientists and engineers, mine executives, investors, government representatives, academics and all the other stakeholders...

Digging Earth: Extractivism and Resistance on Indigenous lands of the Americas is a collection of essays and artists' contributions that documents the practices of extractivism on indigenous lands of the American continent, and the opposition to the...

Metallurgy as a branch of materials science and engineering refers to the study of metallic elements, intermetallic compounds and alloys. The most important technique used to extract metals is mining. Therefore, metallurgy and mining are important to...

Mining in Colorado A History of Discovery, Development and Production - Originally Published in 1926 as Professional Paper 138 This historically significant book has information on the Mining in Colorado that we haven't found in any other publication...

The Mother Lode System of California has produced well over a Billion dollars in Gold at today's prices. The System trends northwest through Northern California. It is estimated that nearly 60% of the gold in this region still lies in the ground. This...

The Boy Mineral Collectors, written by Jay G. Kelley and published in 1898, is a book that aims to educate young readers on the subject of mineral collecting. The book is a guide for boys who are interested in exploring the world of minerals and rocks,...

""Mineral Riches of the Earth"" is a book published by the American Sunday School Union in 1861. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the various minerals found on Earth and their uses. It covers a wide range of topics, including the geological...

Das Oberharzer Wasserregal ist in aller Munde: ein Weltkulturerbe-Titel für dieses Bergbaurelikt wurde vergeben. Das Unterharzer Wasserwirtschaftssystem, mit dem Zentrum in der Harzgeröder Region, das bis in den Südharz reicht, ist hingegen noch...

Resource extraction exists in diverse settings across the world and is carried out through different practices. The Global Life of Mines provides a comprehensive framework examining the spatial and temporal relationships between mining and postmining as...

The Prospector's Fieldbook and Guide: In the Search for and the Easy Determination of Ores and Other Useful Minerals, written by Henry Stafford Osborn and published in 1920, is a comprehensive guidebook for prospectors and miners. The book provides...

Waterflooding is one of the most common techniques used to improve oil recovery. Although waterflooding has been extensively implemented in light oil reservoirs, only a few waterflooding studies and field tests have been conducted in heavy oil reservoirs...

Das Buch ""Das Alte Bergrecht Von Iglau Und Seine Bergrechtlichen Schoffenspruche (1897)"" von Johann Adolph Tomaschek ist eine umfassende Studie �����ber das Bergrecht in der Stadt Iglau (heute Jihlava, Tschechien) und die damit verbundenen...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 1995 im Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften - Bergbau, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität Clausthal, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Bei der Erschließung neuer Feldesteile oder Tunnelauffahrungen ist in langen, sonderbewetterten...

Dr. Peter Flawn, president-emeritus of the University of Texas, Austin, began life as a geologist. After a stint in World War II, he teamed up with another geologist, Philip W. Beckley, to explore and develop an old Spanish silver mine in a remote,...

Rock Weathering and Laterization in Brazil is a scientific book written by Harold Kurtz Shearer and originally published in 1914. The book is a detailed study of the geological processes of rock weathering and laterization in Brazil, particularly in the...

This book is a compilation of selected papers from the Fifth International Technical Symposium on Deepwater Oil and Gas Engineering and the Fourth International Youth Forum on Gas Hydrate (DWOG-Hyd 2023), held in Qingdao, China, in October 2023. The book...

Due to the increasingly complex mineralogy, and lower grade of many current ore reserves, technology has, over the past decade, had to evolve rapidly to treat these materials economically in an industry which has undergone...

The present book is the result of work carried out over a period of about ten years by the author and his co-workers in order to describe more accurately the slow irreversible deformation in time of the rocks surrounding...

Shallow Gas determination, prior to drilling, is carried out using 'Engineering Seismic' survey methods. Seismic acquisition data quality is fundamental in achieving this objective as both the data processing methods and...

This volume contains the edited papers prepared by lecturers and participants of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Statistical Treatments for Estimation of Mineral and Energy Resources" held at II Ciocco (Lucca), Italy,...

Sucht man einen Reiseführer für den Harz, so stößt man auf ein breites Angebot für die unterschiedlichsten Interessengebiete. Jedoch ist der Harz, vom Territorium her betrachtet, recht weitläufig. Das führt dazu, dass viele dieser Führer sich mit ihren...

This book is intended primarily for exploration geologists and post­ graduate students attending specialist courses in mineral exploration. Exploration geologists are engaged not only in the search for new mineral deposits, but...

Seismic Reflection Processing coherently presents the physical concepts, mathematical details and methodology for optimizing results of reservoir modelling, under conditions of isotropy and anisotropy. The most common form of...

Biomining uses microorganisms to recover metals, in particular copper and gold, from ores and concentrates. This book takes a strong applied approach to the study of biomining. It describes emerging and established industrial...

The Geo-Platinum 87 Symposium, held at the Open University during April 1987, was designed as a forum for presentation of new research results on the occurrence, genesis, geochemistry, mineralogy and analysis of the ...

This is a collection of original papers, each by an expert in his field. They deal with different sectors of recent geophysical development. It may be, at first, difficult to see what else unites them, and how these several...

One of the themes in current geophysical development is the bringing together of the results of observations made on the surface and those made in the subsurface. Several benefits result from this association. The detailed...

Geophysical prospecting is an applied science and the range of scientific principles to be applied is very wide. In this collection of original papers, the application of many different principles is described in the search for...

Recent seismological research has focused on processes other than pure shear failure (double-couple) as an alternative mechanism for some types of seismic events. This has been stimulated by what appears to be anomalous focal...