This volume focuses on mining and the challenges for this industry as it transitions and evolves as the demand for products and responsible and sustainable mining ever increases.
This volume focuses on mining and the challenges for this industry as it transitions and evolves as the demand for products and responsible and sustainable mining ever increases.
This book explores the development and effective implementation of local content policies in the global petroleum industry, providing a comprehensive overview of the foundations and drivers of local content in oil and gas.
Through the first decade of the twentieth century, Americans looked upon industrial accidents with callous disregard; they were accepted as an unfortunate but necessary adjunct to industrial society.
The Big Sandy River and its two main tributaries, the Tug and Levisa forks, drain nearly two million mountainous acres in the easternmost part of Kentucky.
This book explores the development and effective implementation of local content policies in the global petroleum industry, providing a comprehensive overview of the foundations and drivers of local content in oil and gas.
From the early day of mining in colonial Virginia and Maryland up to the time of World War II, blacks were an important part of the labor force in the coal industry.
Centrifugal and Rotary Pumps offers both professionals and students a concise reference detailing the design, performance, and principles of operation of the different pumps types defined by the Hydraulic Institute.
The first comprehensive guide to the petrography of geomaterials, making the petrographers specialist knowledge available to practitioners, educators and students worldwide interested in modern and historic construction materials.
Since the first edition of this book was published, most developments in welding construction have been within the quality assurance element of the process rather than in welding technology itself.
La apasionante historia de la extracción y el control económico de los grandes minerales, desde la Antigüedad hasta nuestros días: oro, cobre, hierro, litio, tierras raras, etc.
This book looks at the distribution, occurrences, potential and prospects for good governance, transparency and sustainable development of geological resources in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mining and Development in Sierra Leone examines how different actors in Sierra Leone use the effects of large-scale mining to navigate and transform the challenging conditions of life.
Ecological Management of Mining: Achieving Environmental Compliance is a study and comparison - global in scope - of current practices used by mining firms striving for ecological management.
Modelling large-scale wave fields and their interaction with coastal and offshore structures has become much more feasible over the last two decades with increases in computer speeds.
Ecological Management of Mining: Achieving Environmental Compliance is a study and comparison - global in scope - of current practices used by mining firms striving for ecological management.
The process of spraying concrete is one of the most versatile concrete placing techniques, and is used in a wide range of applications - from construction of new tunnels, domes, tanks and pools, to repair and strengthening of existing structure.
Economic Organization of the British Coal Industry (1934) is a study that shows on the one hand the organization of the coal industry in Britain in the 1930s in conjunction with the economic forces working behind the industry, and on the other hand shows the influence of political, authoritarian thought on its structure.
This book provides comprehensive guidance on maintaining old waterfront structures, particularly gravity walls constructed with stone masonry, brick, blocks or mass concrete.
Economic Organization of the British Coal Industry (1934) is a study that shows on the one hand the organization of the coal industry in Britain in the 1930s in conjunction with the economic forces working behind the industry, and on the other hand shows the influence of political, authoritarian thought on its structure.
This book is a direct outgrowth of classes that the authors gave over a period of three decades to a university audience taking a Mineral Beneficiation course as a major that included coal processing and utilization.
This book is an illustrative introduction to metamorphic rocks as seen in the field, designed for advanced high school to graduate-level earth science and geology students to jump-start their observational skills.
If you have a passion for heavy machinery, you'll be excited about David Wylie's guide to the Earthmovers of Scotland, complete with over 400 stunning photographs!
Cobalto rojo es la primera y desgarradora revelación de la inmensa carga que la minería del cobalto supone para la población y el medio ambiente de la República Democrática del Congo, contada a través de los testimonios de los propios congoleños.
In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been central to Bolivian politics and to the country's economy.
A harrowing journey through the past, present, and future of mining, this expertly-researched account ends on a vision for how industry can better serve the needs of humanity.
Esta investigación analiza la trayectoria, las características y el papel de la participación en el sector extractivo en Colombia desde un enfoque de economía política que privilegia el análisis de las dinámicas políticas como un factor relevante para el logro de la gobernanza.
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in British history.
