Mining category: 116 books
Women Miners in Developing Countries
Pit Women and Others
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Contrary to their masculine portrayal, mines have always employed women in valuable and productive roles. Yet, pit life continues to be represented as a masculine world of work, legitimizing men as the only mineworkers and large, mechanized, and capitalized operations as the only form of mining. Bringing...
The Devil's Breath
The Story of the Hillcrest Mine Disaster of 1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
On a warm spring day in June of 1914, two hundred and thirty-five men went down into the depths of the Hillcrest mine found in Alberta’s Crowsnest Pass. Only forty-six would make it out alive. The largest coal-mining disaster in Canadian history, the fateful tale of the Hillcrest Mine is finally...
by Ben M. Dugan
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
In 1859, �Pikes Peak or bust!� spread across America and brought men and their families from all over to the Kansas goldfields seeking a new beginning. Thousands came to Clear Creek and Gilpin Counties and eventually settled all of Colorado. The mining communities of Idaho Springs, Georgetown, Empire,...
Comstock Women
The Making Of A Mining Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1997
When it comes to Nevada history, men get most of the ink. Comstock Women is a collection of 14 historical studies that helps to rectify that reality. The authors of these essays, who include some of Nevada’s most prominent historians, demographers, and archaeologists, explore such topics as women...
by Mike Dupont
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
crack•er•jack (ˈkræk ərˌdʒæk) n. a person or thing that shows marked ability or excellence. The Knoxgold mining company has cheated Joe McDonald and his crew out of their hard-earned bonus, and there’s nothing that they can do about it — until they discover an unknown gold-vein deep inside...
Iron Will
Cleveland-Cliffs and the Mining of Iron Ore, 1847-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The history of Cleveland-Cliffs, a company that played a key role in iron mining development in the Lake Superior region.
by Alan Davies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
The area of Lancashire and Cheshire can be considered one of the homes of the Industrial Revolution, and it was the abundance of coal close to the surface that literally helped fuel the great growth in cities such as Manchester and Liverpool. With poor roads, it was easier to move coal by water and...
How To Mine Bitcoin:
Learn How To Mine Cryptocurrency
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
How to get your start in Bitcoin investing or mining.
Here You will learn the tools of the trade and be shown how to use them on an entry level.
I want people to know how to use these tools to benefit themselves. IT is not that hard to get into mining, but it is an investment to get...
Downwind
A People's History of the Nuclear West
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in uranium extraction by mining corporations during and after the Cold War.
Sarah Alisabeth Fox interviews residents...
by Minerva Chaloping March
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
The current discourse on mine closure is informed predominantly by industry and corporate perspectives and predicated by experiences of mainly mining companies that are based in developed countries where necessary planning frameworks and regulatory requirements are well-established. Mine closure planning,...
by Bryan Glahn
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
Ten-year-old Willie Hatton was excited to visit his father at the Avondale Mine on the morning of September 6, 1869. Sadly, Willie would die in his father's arms that day, and so would 108 other miners, all victims of a horrific fire that tore through the shaft, trapping the men and boys and blocking...
Cradle to Grave
Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Mines
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 1993
Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on the surface....
by Keith Haddock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
British Opencast Coal is an illustrated history of coal mining by surface methods from 1942 to 1985. Written by Keith Haddock, a leading authority on the subject, this book details the origins of the industry and documents the types of earthmoving machines employed during the first 40 years. The book...
Death in the Mines
Disasters and Rescues in the Anthracite Coal Fields of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Since 1870, mining disasters have claimed the lives of over 30,000 men and boys who toiled underground in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania. The constant threat of fire, explosion, collapsed rock and deadly gas brought miners face to face with death on a daily basis. Sometimes they survived; many...