Mining category: 116 books

Since ancient times gold has exerted a powerful fascination for humankind. Symbol of wealth and riches, it has influenced the rise and fall of empires and changed the course of history. In Australia, its discovery sparked frenzied gold rushes that opened up large parts of the land to settlement, transformed...

For forty years they flooded Colorado—gold diggers, silver miners, outlaws, gamblers, and pioneers—looking for another Golden Fleece. Colorado comes alive in this classic overview of the gold and silver rushes, where fortunes were won and lost. Phyllis Flanders Dorset has re-created a lusty frontier...

In Canada: A New Tax Haven, Alain Deneault traces Canada’s relationship with Commonwealth Caribbean nations back through the last half of the twentieth century, arguing that the involvement of Canadian financiers in establishing and maintaining Caribbean tax havens has predisposed Canada to become...

Successful Farmins & Farmouts describes in detail all the information an oil and gas professional needs to complete a successful farmout or farmin of projects ranging from early exploration opportunities through to mature producing fields.  The book includes a detailed checklist for data...

This major ATF publication, Federal Explosives Law and Regulations, has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text ebook format reproduction. The introduction from the ATF Acting Director states: We are pleased to provide you with the latest edition of the Federal Explosives...

The, Uranium Seekers, saga began in 1976 when world-famous Hollywood, California photographer, Martin, was contracted to come to Utah and begin documenting, paying photographic tribute to, uranium miners, native Americans, and the Vanadium King uranium and vanadium mines on Temple Mountain, Emery...

El flujo multifásico vertical es para el ingeniero un problema complementario de flujo de fluidos en las tuberías para los pozos productores, una vez que los fluidos han salido del medio poroso del yacimiento. El pronosticar la presión en el cabezal del pozo bajo esas condiciones de flujo es muy...

The price of gold keeps on rising as the global economy suffers turmoil and low growth. Is now a good time to protect or even grow your wealth with gold investment? This new Harriman Instant, The Price of Gold, is an authoritative guide for anyone thinking of buying gold and who wants to do so securely....

From Roman times, rocks have been worked for a wide range of purposes, initially as building stone. As time passed, more and more stone was needed for high-status buildings like castles, halls and monasteries, as well as for bridges, dry stone walls and road-building. The Yorkshire Pennines have a...

This dictionary provides a synthesis of information currently available but only in a diverse array of sources. Through judicious choice and careful scrutiny, the author has gathered together a very handy ready-reference in the same style as his companion volumes, Dictionary of Energy and Fuels and...

Chapter 1 discusses why forts are built. Chapter 2 discusses the basics of building a fortified area. Chapter 3 offers ideas to build defensive towers that are portable to a large extent. The framework is portable, the armor is largely earthworks built around the frame. These are superior to trenches...

In his Annual Report of the Territorial Geologist to the Governor of Wyoming 1890, Louis D. Ricketts wrote, �The coal of this district has little other use than that of supplying a local market.� Years later, nothing could be further from the truth. The United States uses approximately one billion...

The marble deposits in Vermont are some of the richest in the world. Vermont�s Marble Industry takes readers deep inside the quarries of the Green Mountain State to show how stone was sawed and raised from the earth to be cut, polished, and carved into monuments and structures that today are spread...

Drawing on county records, newspaper microfilm, personal interviews, and on-site investigation, Hall provides the reader with a history of 175 significant sites, rendering a treasury of interesting facts on every page. This book blends history and old photographs with an update on the present condition...