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Routledge Handbook of Mining and Sustainable Development

Product Description: While the extractive industries have often courted controversy for unsustainable and exploitative practices, in the past few decades practices in the mining sector have become much more sustainable and socially responsible. This comprehensive handbook shows how sustainable and equitable development concepts have been incorporated into the business of mining...read more

By David Mulligan (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781138213739 | Routledge, July 7, 2017, cover price $240.00 | About this edition: While the extractive industries have often courted controversy for unsustainable and exploitative practices, in the past few decades practices in the mining sector have become much more sustainable and socially responsible.

Mining in Latin America: Critical Approaches to the New Extraction

By Michael L. Dougherty (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781138921672 | Routledge, July 26, 2016, cover price $145.00

Alabama Gold: A History of the SouthÂs Last Mother Lode

Product Description: Gold rushes in Cleburne and Tallapoosa Counties attracted thousands of miners years before Californiaâs famous strike. In 1936, production at the Hog Mountain mine caused Alabama to be recognized as the top producer in the Appalachian states...read more

By Peggy Jackson Walls

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9781467135986, titled "Alabama Gold: A History of the Southâs Last Mother Lode" | History Pr, July 11, 2016, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Gold rushes in Cleburne and Tallapoosa Counties attracted thousands of miners years before Californiaâs famous strike.

Extractive Relations: Power and Protections in the Global Mining Industry

Product Description: Mining is a socially contentious activity. Global debates are intensifying around the extractive industries' social and environmental responsibilities and impacts on human rights, natural resources, culture, lands and livelihoods continue to dominate global discussion...read more

By Deanna Kemp

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Hardcover:

9781783534777 | Greenleaf Pubns, August 31, 2016, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Mining is a socially contentious activity.

Paperback:

9781783534791 | Reprint edition (Greenleaf Pubns, August 31, 2016), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Mining is a socially contentious activity.

Fracking 101: A Beginner's Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing

By Jacqueline George

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9781532829727 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 19, 2016, cover price $8.99

Mineral Economics and Policy

Product Description: This textbook provides an introduction to the field of mineral economics and its use in understanding the behaviour of mineral commodity markets and in assessing both public andÂ corporate policies in this important economic sector...read more

By Juan Ignacio GuzmÃ¡n

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9781617260889 | Routledge, March 22, 2016, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This textbook provides an introduction to the field of mineral economics and its use in understanding the behaviour of mineral commodity markets and in assessing both public andÂ corporate policies in this important economic sector.

Paperback:

9781138838956 | Routledge, March 17, 2016, cover price $59.95

Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia

Product Description: An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements. In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement...read more

By Shannon Elizabeth Bell

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9780262034340 | 1 edition (Mit Pr, March 25, 2016), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements.

Paperback:

9780262528801 | Mit Pr, March 18, 2016, cover price $32.00

Black Powder and Hand Steel: Miners and Machines on the Old Western Frontier

Product Description: Mining in the western United States entered its great era after 1860 through use of the double-jack, black powder, hand steel, Bickford fuse, wire rope, and the steam engine. Those were the years of bonanza strikes: Henry Wickenburgâs Vulture Mine in Arizona Territory; the main hard-rock gold strike in the desert Southwest; Ed Schieffelinâs discovery of vast silver deposits in Tombstone, Arizona; and the Tonopah-Goldfield strike in Nevada, which netted over one hundred million dollars...read more

By Robert Lenon (contributor) and Otis E. Young, Jr.

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9780806153971 | Reprint edition (Univ of Oklahoma Pr, March 14, 2016), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Mining in the western United States entered its great era after 1860 through use of the double-jack, black powder, hand steel, Bickford fuse, wire rope, and the steam engine.

Copper for America: The United States Copper Industry from Colonial Times to the 1990s