Mining Industry

Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to be represented...

This illustrated book tells the story of the female colliery surface workers, or pit brow women, of the Wigan coalfield. The numbers of women worki...

This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by focusing on a number o...

Through diverse engagements with natural resource extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic, contributors to this volume...

Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction ...

The development of equitable relationships and outcomes among Indigenous communities, resource development companies, and governments in Canada is ...

The Derbyshire Miners (1962) examines the development of the Derbyshire coalfield and the growth of trade union organization among the miners. It l...

This book highlights the role of community trusts in social licencing through the lens of mining and mining disputes in South Africa. Employing ele...

First published in 1961, The Miners in Crisis and War: A History of Miners’ Federation of Great Britain from 1930 Onwards tells the story of two sh...

Both a history of an overlooked community and a well-rounded reassessment of prevailing assumptions about Chinese miners in the American West, In P...

In the years since the development and subsequent success of Stone Matrix Asphalt (SMA), a plethora of articles have emerged, scattered throughout ...

First published in 1989, 'Boomtown Blues' examines the remarkable 100-year history of oil shale development and chronicles the social, environmenta...

A companion to Volume One: The Central District this book widens it's focus to study important workings accross the Duchy of Cornwall, from the old...

A history of mining in Cornwall Volume 1

The seven-month national mining lock-out of 1926 was one of the most important industrial disputes of the twentieth century. This work contributes ...

This absorbing collection of photographs and ephemera illustrates life as it was for the coal-level miners of Gwent throughout its industrial past....

With the closure of the coalmines around East Lancashire went a comradeship that few other industries could ever boast. Today the dry and dusty coa...

First published in 1953, The Miners: Years of Struggle is the official history of the British miners, which draws on original sources, moving into ...

Few areas of labour history have received as much attention as the coal industry, with miners often finding themselves at the centre of studies on ...

Construction and demolition debris (CDD) and gypsiferous soils contain elevated concentrations of sulfate which can cause several environmental and...

The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concer...

The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Opening with the heady days of the general strike, it contin...

The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concer...

In The Trail of Gold and Silver, historian Duane A. Smith details Colorado's mining saga - a story that stretches from the beginning of the gold an...

Thomas F. Walsh tells the story of one of the West's wealthiest mining magnates - an Irish American prospector and lifelong philanthropist who stru...

The first intensive analysis of sense of place in American mining towns, Hard as the Rock Itself: Place and Identity in the American Mining Town pr...

Increasingly, companies are being judged by their performance in terms of Environmental Social Governance (ESG). But exactly what does it mean, and...

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

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

As a function of its corporate duties, the Consolidation Coal Company, one of the largest coal-mining operations in the United States during the fi...

The mining of diamonds, their trading mechanisms, their financial institutions, and, not least, their cultural expressions as luxury items have e...

When gold was discovered in the far northern regions of Alaska and the Yukon in the late nineteenth century, thousands of individuals headed north ...

From the 1880s to the 1980s more than eight thousand workers died in the coal mines of the Rocky Mountain states. Sometimes they died by the dozens...

Deposits of coal, formed over 300 million years ago, lie beneath almost all of Staffordshire. Accessible surface outcrops were mined for domestic u...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of European immigrants came to northeastern Pennsylvania to work in the coal mines...

A country's abundant natural resources may serve as a curse or a blessing, with the outcome often dependent on prevailing governance structures and...

A country's abundant natural resources may serve as a curse or a blessing, with the outcome often dependent on prevailing governance structures and...