Extractive industries

This book contains high-quality papers from the principal mining research institutes of the USA, United Kingdom, India and South Africa, thus providing up-to-date coverage of underground mining and technology in the main mining areas of the world.

In petroleum refineries, although there are sets of standard operating procedures to operate the plants, unique problems often arise, which need to be tackled with engineering knowledge and experience without much loss of energy and time.

Communities are rightly concerned about the indiscriminate use of natural resources, environmental pollution, poverty, health, and education, among other social problems.

An in-depth, comprehensible approach to theoretical soil mechanics and an introduction to the new theory of barodesy.

Waterjet technology is used in a variety of industries including civil engineering, mining, geotechnical engineering, tunnelling, defence, construction and conservation.

Communities are rightly concerned about the indiscriminate use of natural resources, environmental pollution, poverty, health, and education, among other social problems.

Dariya Manova rekonstruiert die Literaturgeschichte der Rohstoffe in der Populärliteratur und Publizistik im Deutschland der 1920er und 30er Jahre.

In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States.

Regulatory Governance and Risk Management will be the first book addressing the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry from a health and safety standpoint.

Africa supplies the majority of the world's diamonds, yet consumers generally know little about the origins and history of these precious stones beyond sensationalized media accounts of so-called blood diamonds.

Like an old-fashioned hymn sung in rounds, Something's Rising gives a stirring voice to the lives, culture, and determination of the people fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal in the coalfields of central Appalachia.

Challenging Canada’s image as a humane, enlightened global actor, Colonial Extractions examines the troubling racial logic that underpins Canadian mining operations in several African countries.

An important part of an organization's overall safety and health program involves safety management for contractors.

Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Construction Managers, Second Edition has been extensively rewritten to not only bring it up to date with the state of current practice, but also to serve as a textbook for university courses in construction engineering and management.

In Unearthing Conflict Fabiana Li analyzes the aggressive expansion and modernization of mining in Peru since the 1990s to tease out the dynamics of mining-based protests.

Regulatory Governance and Risk Management will be the first book addressing the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry from a health and safety standpoint.

In 1890, more than 100,000 Welsh-born immigrants resided in the United States.

Includes full-color isopach and richness maps for each organic-rich and organic-lean oil shale interval within the upper Green River Formation.

In the heart of Ashington - a bustling Geordie mining town - a handsome red-brick vicarage, surrounded by rambling gardens, stands proudly among the rows of terraced houses.

Modern treaties, increased self-government, new environmental assessment rules, co-management bodies, and increased recognition and respect of Indigenous rights make it possible for northern communities to exert some control over extractive industries.

Alkali-Aggregate Reaction in Concrete: A World Review is unique in providing authoritative and up to date expert information on the causes and effects of Alkali-Aggregate Reaction (AAR) in concrete structures worldwide.

Advances in Extraterrestrial Drilling: Ground, Ice, and Underwater includes the latest advances that have been made in recent years in developing drilling and excavation mechanisms for extraterrestrial bodies.

Rigorously and objectively examines the evolving context within which great ape and gibbon habitats are increasingly interfacing with extractive industries.

On a misty morning in eastern Kentucky, cross-bearing Christians gather for a service on a surface-mined mountain.

Presents an applied approach to the estimation of mineral resources/reserves, for advanced students and professionals.

A Recommended Read from: Vogue * USA Today * The Los Angeles Times * Publishers Weekly * The Week * Alma * Lit HubA stunning and brutally honest memoir that shines a light on what happens when female desireconflicts with a culture of masculinity in crisisIn her midthirties and newly free from a terrible relationship, Tabitha Lasley quit her job at a London magazine, packed her bags, and poured her savings into a six-month lease on an apartment in Aberdeen, Scotland.

While the ASCE Body of Knowledge (BOK2) is the codified source for all technical and non-technical information necessary for those seeking to attain licensure in civil engineering, recent graduates have notoriously been lacking in the non-technical aspects even as they excel in the technical.

As electricity became more widely used to power and light Britain's towns and cities a number of municipal boroughs built their own power stations.

Negative environmental events make the headlines.

The Ark of Shared Value is a fundamental guide for those involved in designing and implementing sustainable business projects.

Sustainable practices within the mining and energy sectors are assuming greater significance due to uncertainty and change within the global economy and safety, security, and health concerns.

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.

This general treatise on precast concrete reflects Maurice Levitt's extensive experience in the construction industry and as a researcher and consultant.

The new edition of the Building Regulations Pocket Book has been fully updated with recent changes to the UK Building Regulations and Planning Law.

Based on case studies, the book creates a multidisciplinary conversation on the gendered vulnerabilities resulting from extractive industries and toxic pollution, and also charts the resilience and courage of women as they resist polluting industries, fight for clean water and seek to protect the land.

This cutting-edge summary combines ideas from several sub-disciplines to provide an understanding of sediment routing systems and Earth surface dynamics.

Surface coal mining has had a dramatic impact on the Appalachian economy and ecology since World War II, exacerbating the region's chronic unemployment and destroying much of its natural environment.

In a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is key to development, whilst also creating environmental and social disasters, understanding how landscapes, people and politics are shaped by extraction is crucial.

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.

Activity in the gold markets has focused investors' attention on this unique commodity.

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.

Design of Welded Steel Structures: Principles and Practice provides a solid foundation of theoretical and practical knowledge necessary for the design of welded steel structures.

ACRLs Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2021Peru is classified as one of the deadliest countries in the world for environmental defenders, where activists face many forms of violence.

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.

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.

Britain's mining and quarrying industries date back to the Stone Age flint mines of 2500 BC and still exist.

Britain's mining and quarrying industries date back to the Stone Age flint mines of 2500 BC and still exist.

An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them.

An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft.