Mining Industry

A comprehensive and illustrated desk reference with terms, definitions, explanations, abbreviations, trade names, quantifications, units and symbol...

International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extract...

Argues that corporate neo-colonialism in the diamond trade of Sierra Leone has served to restrict its social and economic growth, excluding and mar...

Indigenous peoples have occupied their territories for thousands of years, territories that are increasingly being mined by an industry applying th...

An investigation into one of the largest and most lucrative mineral mining companies in the world, Rio Tinto, Extraction Politics reveals how the c...

The Shifting Ground of Globalization: Labor and Mineral Extraction at Vale S.A. describes the transformation of the formerly state-owned Brazilian ...

Written to Eurocode 7 and the UK National AnnexUpdated to reflect the current usage of Eurocode 7, along with relevant parts of the British Standa...

This comprehensive technical book on highwall mining covers theory and practice coupled with practical examples and design aspects. It contains eig...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of a highly innovative method of natural wastewater treatment using advanced in-groundbioreactors ...

A Primer to Theoretical Soil Mechanics is about adapting continuum mechanics to granular materials. The field of continuum mechanics offers many fr...

Rapid urbanization has created an unprecedented pressure on the use of land in cities around the world, resulting in physical and legal complexitie...

This practical and design-oriented book focuses on ground characterization and structural calculation, as part of the active structural design meth...

As the key component in aluminum production, bauxite became one of the most important minerals of the last one hundred years. But its effects on pe...

In a fast-changing world, where the extraction of natural resources is key to development, whilst also creating environmental and social disasters,...

In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been central t...

In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been central t...

More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the po...

Share our experiences, our successes and failures, and our ideas and dreams, all with the goal of getting better at the work we love: building tunn...

Share our experiences, our successes and failures, and our ideas and dreams, all with the goal of getting better at the work we love: building tunn...

This unique book combines a colourful history of Bolivian politics with some of the most advanced quantitative techniques yet developed for socio-p...

This book addresses some of the countless challenges faced by developing countries when adopting sustainable design and construction and offers sug...