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  • The Price of Gold: Mechanical mining in El Chocó, Colombia

    This book tells a story about artisanal gold mining in a rainforest region of Colombia, and what happened when mechanized mining came to the region. While traditional panning for gold did no damage to rivers or forests, the new machines have created serious environmental and social problems. El Chocó is one of many places around the world where extractive technology threatens the sustainability of ... Read more

    $3.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The (Secret) History of Gold Prospecting in the United States, and the 38 States Where Gold Has Already Been Found!

    by Tim Rapp ...
    The history of gold prospecting in the United States, and the massive gold resources still waiting to be found in the lower 48 states are not known by the overwhelming majority of American citizens.Most Americans don’t know that:•Gold has already been found in over 75% of the United States - 38 of the 50 states.•That the U.S. Geological Survey, the premier geologic science agency of the U.S. ... Read more

    Free

  • Poor Man's Fortune

    White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950

    by Jarod Roll ...
    White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man's Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the ... Read more

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  • Fire and Brimstone

    The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

    by Michael Punke ...
    The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, The Revenant -- basis for the award-winning motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio -- tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history.A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Blockchain: The complete guide to understanding Blockchain Technology for beginners in record time

    Want To Learn Everything About the game-changer for the world of finance ? Learn how you can benefit from Blockchain Now...!!!This is an excelent book for beginners to understand the Business potentials of Blockchain !Blockchain is a way of revolutionizing business transactions. It was developed in conjunction with Bitcoin technology but can be applied just about everywhere and has enormous ... Read more

    $3.97 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buried Alive

    The True Story of the Chilean Mining Disaster and the Extraordinary Rescue at Camp Hope

    The inside story of the thirty-three Chilean miners trapped 2,300 feet underground that captivated the worldOn August 5, 2010, a tunnel in the gold and copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Chile collapsed, with all of its miners trapped underground. For days, the families waited breathlessly as percussion drills searched out signs of life. Finally, a note came back from below--the miners were ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Volt Rush

    The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

    'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and dangerous planet we’ve come to take for granted.' Bill McKibben, Observer book of the weekWe depend on a handful of metals and rare earths to power our phones and computers. Increasingly, we rely on them to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Diamonds, Gold, and War

    The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa

    Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Vivos bajo tierra (Buried Alive)

    La historia verdadera de los 33 mineros chilenos (The True Story of the 33 Chile an Miners)

    Estuvieron 69 días atrapados bajo tierra en pleno desierto de Atacama, Chile. Las primeras semanas sobrevivieron con apenas dos cucharadas de atún cada 48 horas, soportando el calor endemoniado de una mina de cobre y oro que tras un derrumbe de rocas gigantes, los mantuvo soterrados 69 días, a casi 700 metros de profundidad. Pese a la gravedad de la tragedia, los 33 mineros de Atacama, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Invest in Gold: A guide to making money (or securing wealth) by buying and selling gold

    by Peter Temple ...
    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. Covering gold bullion, gold bars, gold coins and alternative ways to invest such as ETFs, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Downwind

    A People's History of the Nuclear West

    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 of the Great Basin region affected by environmental contamination from the uranium industry and nuclear ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Eyes of the World

    Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo

    The Eyes of the World focuses on the lives and experiences of Eastern Congolese people involved in extracting and transporting the minerals needed for digital devices.The digital devices that, many would argue, define this era exist not only because of Silicon Valley innovations but also because of a burgeoning trade in dense, artisanally mined substances like tantalum, tin, and tungsten. In the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Boomtown Saloons

    Archaeology And History In Virginia City

    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    The image of Old West saloons as sites of violence and raucous entertainment has been perpetuated by film and legend, but the true story of such establishments is far more complex. In Boomtown Saloons, archaeologist Kelly J. Dixon recounts the excavation of four historic saloon sites in Nevada’s Virginia City, one of the West’s most important boomtowns, and shows how the physical traces of this ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The History of Mining

    The events, technology and people involved in the industry that forged the modern world

    THE INDUSTRY THAT FORGED THE MODERN WORLD Throughout history metals and raw materials have underpinned human activity. So it is that the industry responsible for extracting these materials from the ground - mining - has been ever present throughout the history of civilisation, from the ancient world of the Egyptians and Romans, to the industrial revolution and the British Empire, and through to ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • PolyMet

    14 Years Of Bullshit

    PolyMet: Fourteen Years of Bullshit is the story of ineptitude, inattention, and outright corruption by Minnesota and federal regulators in consideration of permits for copper sulfide mining near Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota for PolyMet Mining, a Canadian penny-stock company and its shadowy bad-boy backer, Glencore Plc. It is also the story of the failure of Minnesota’s political leadership to intervene, ... Read more

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  • Reservoir Geomechanics

    This interdisciplinary book encompasses the fields of rock mechanics, structural geology and petroleum engineering to address a wide range of geomechanical problems that arise during the exploitation of oil and gas reservoirs. It considers key practical issues such as prediction of pore pressure, estimation of hydrocarbon column heights and fault seal potential, determination of optimally stable ... Read more

    $45.99 USD $40.99 USD

  • Uranium Seekers

    A Photo-Essay Tribute to Miners (Working)

    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 County, Utah. The essence of the project was to pay tribute to the persons who traversed Zane Grey’s ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold Fields 1896-1898

    A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Gold Mines and Camps

    A thrilling narrative of personal experiences and adventures in the wonderful gold regions of Alaska and the Klondike, with observations of travel and exploration along the Yukon. Portraying the dangers, hardships, and privations of a gold-seeker's life; with a faithful description of life and scenes in gold mines and camps. Including full and authentic information of the countries described, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Metaverse Investing: The Step-By-Step Guide to Understand Metaverse World and Business, Virtual Land, DeFi, NFT, Crypto Art, Blockchain Gaming, and Play To Earn

    Metaverse Collection

    Series series Metaverse Collection
    Have you heard about the Metaverse on Social Networks or from friends and would like to learn more about this Digital Revolution? Do you want to find out how to seize this new investment opportunity and not get left out? Then read on!The Metaverse is a world of infinite possibilities. A concept, though old, yet so new. As civilization takes the next step into the virtual world, it would only be ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining

    Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology

    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    This book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues of conflict, human rights, sustainable development, governance, and environmental justice. As an institution of significant scope and scale with a large network of actors at all levels and substantial theoretical and ethical resources, the Catholic Church is well ... Read more

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  • Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design in Weak Rocks

    Edited by Derek Martin, Peter Stacey ...
    Weak rocks encountered in open pit mines cover a wide variety of materials, with properties ranging between soil and rock. As such, they can provide a significant challenge for the slope designer. For these materials, the mass strength can be the primary control in the design of the pit slopes, although structures can also play an important role. Because of the typically weak nature of the ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Nevada's Twentieth-Century Mining Boom

    Tonopah, Goldfield, Ely

    Twenty years after the decline of the magnificent Comstock Lode, Nevada’s prosperity and population had diminished to such a degree that some popular articles questioned whether to deprive Nevada of her statehood. Then in the spring of 1900, a miner discovered silver in south-central Nevada. This casual find precipitated a spectacular latter-day mining boom that, among other things, helped to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Coal Mine Disasters in the Modern Era c. 1900–1980

    by Brian Elliott ...
    Series series Images of the Past
    “These haunting images, with well-researched facts, figures and timelines providing context, bring the bygone era of 20th-century coal mining to life.”—Family TreeAlthough everyday fatalities in mines was far greater, it was the disasters that encouraged those in power to reform the way in which miners had to work underground, especially with regard to safety. And it would be no exaggeration to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After The Boom In Tombstone And Jerome, Arizona

    Decline In Western Resource Towns

    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas—Tombstone and Jerome—historian Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecting the process of bust itself—the reasons and manners in which these towns declined as the mining booms ended. Tombstone was the site of one of the great silver bonanzas of the nineteenth century, a boom that started in the late 1870s and was over by ... Read more

    $25.99 USD