Extractive industries

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.

In 1864, a poor Welsh boy, William Pritchard Morgan, emigrated to Australia to make his fortune.

¿Es la minería un elemento dinamizador de la economía de las naciones, o solamente una actividad guiada por la necesidad del lucro inmediato aun a costa de la salud de la población y de la destrucción del medio ambiente?

La meseta central santacruceña, ubicada en la Patagonia Austral, tiene una extensión de catorce millones de hectáreas y es muy diversa en cuanto a población establecida y actividades económicas.

Inspired by the most infamous incident involving the Getty family - now a major film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams and Oscar Nominee Christopher PlummerOil tycoon J.

Lancashire Mining Disasters chronicles the effects, death and grief of the local ming communities in Lancashire, through colliery accidents and explosions from the early 1830s through to 1910.

Britain’s year-long miners’ strike against the Thatcher administration is vividly recounted in this diary of one of its most vocal leaders.

In the period that we now call the Industrial Revolution mining disasters wrecked the lives of thousands of South Yorkshire families and devastated entire communities.

Mining has played a formative role in the history of Northern Ontario.

The story of the Australian miners and soldiers who tunnelled under Hill 60 near Ypres and eventually broke through to create a new frontline.

The management of natural resources plays a vital role in the socio-economic development of all countries.

The management of natural resources plays a vital role in the socio-economic development of all countries.

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.

Luego de la Guerra de la triple Alianza Argentina y Brasil expandieron sus fronteras sobre el Alto Paraná en detrimento del Paraguay.

This is a unique archive of childrens hopes, fears, views and memories during times when political shifts affected and risked educational potential, performance and aspiration.

Over 4,000 years of history lie in the seams of British mines, beginning all the way back in the New Stone Age.

Part One includes an overview of early disasters, multiple fatalities, from 1710.

Mongolia's mining-based economic development and the sustainability of its urban economies depend on both water and energy.

Mongolia's mining-based economic development and the sustainability of its urban economies depend on both water and energy.

El enfoque busca reconstruir la genesis que oriento los fundamentos del proceso de ocupacion asi como la conformacion de las relaciones sociales de poder en el espacio regional del Alto Parana entre los siglos XIX-XX.

For a growing number of countries in Africa the discovery and exploitation of natural resources is a great opportunity, but one accompanied by considerable risks.

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In 1864, a poor Welsh boy, William Pritchard Morgan, emigrated to Australia to make his fortune.

Do, Die, or Get Along weaves together voices of twenty-six people who have intimate connections to two neighboring towns in the southwestern Virginia coal country.

Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of the world s largest mining companies, a million and a half artisanal diggers, more than a million cutters and polishers and a huge retail jewellery sector.

The scars left by the 1984/85 "e;Great Strike for Jobs"e; are still raw in Nottinghamshire, thirty years later.