Mining Industry

The book deals with development of comprehensive computational models for simulating underground coal gasification (UCG). It starts with an introdu...

The Business of Mining complete set of three Focus books provides readers with a holistic all-embracing appraisal of the analytical tools available...

TV portraits of the Miners' strike of 1984/5 stressed the violence of the pickets and responsible policing. This book challenges those images, look...

This book provides a foundation to understand the development of sustainability in civil engineering, and tools to address the three pillars of sus...

Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form o...

On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine and killed twenty-nine miners. This tragedy was the deadliest m...

Life in the early twentieth-century coalmining communities changed very little for the women who dedicated their lives to their miner husbands. The...

Wastelanding tells the history of the uranium industry on Navajo land in the U.S. Southwest, asking why certain landscapes and the peoples who inha...

World coal production will increase up to 2040 and world energy consumption will be very much dependent on coal. For a better planning of coal mini...

Diamonds are a multi-billion dollar business involving some of the worlds largest mining companies, a million and a half artisanal diggers, more th...

Why do multinational mining corporations use participation to undermine resistance? Do the struggles of local communities, activists and NGOs matte...

This book is a biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a mining town located in Andalusia, Spain. Based on previously unexamined sources, the study ...