Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 2000
This text looks at mine planning and equipment and covers topics such as: design and planning of surface and underground mines; geotechnical stability in surface and underground mines; and mining and the environment.
Social Licensing and Mining in South Africa (Routledge Contemporary Africa)
by Sethulego Matebesi
This book highlights the role of community trusts in social licencing through the lens of mining and mining disputes in South Africa. Employing elements of trust, acceptance and elite interaction as a framework, this book critically investigates the underlying dynamics of community development trusts and also the response of host communities to the inherent dilemma of the SLO concept, namely social legitimation versus corporate profits. Looking at formal versus informal regulatory requirements...
Large-Scale Land Acquisition in Ghana (Routledge Studies in Global Land and Resource Grabbing)
by Kristina Lanz
This book examines a large-scale land acquisition project for rice production in Ghana’s Volta Region, which has been purported by some to be a social and ecological showcase of a company entering a "community–private partnership" with affected communities. Celebrated by national and international media, the project has received substantial amounts of funding from various donor organisations and claims to empower women through its much-lauded outgrower project. Although discourses of "developme...
State-Corporate Crime and the Commodification of Victimhood (Crimes of the Powerful)
by Thomas MacManus
This book highlights the continuing impunity enjoyed by corporations for large scale crimes, and in particular the crime of toxic waste dumping in Ivory Coast in 2006. It provides an account of the crime, and outlines contributory reasons for the impunity both under the law and from a criminological point of view. Furthermore, the book reveals the retrogressive role of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Ivory coast, contrary to the societal expectations made of 'non-governmental' organisation...
Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability
This book offers slope design practitioners a road map that will help them decide how to investigate and treat water pressures in pit slopes. Created as an outcome of the Large Open Pit project, an international research and technology transfer project, this book expands on the hydrogeological model chapter in the project's previous book Guidelines for Open Pit Slope Design.
Mining and African Urbanisation
Juxtaposing literatures on urbanisation and mining at a time when small-scale artisanal as well as large-scale mining operations are transforming many African economies, this book focuses on the interplay of Sub-Saharan Africa mining and urbanisation in the context of global shifts in capital and labour flows. Classically, urbanisation has been identified with industrial expansion, but mining is a distinct subset of industrial activity, involving artisanal and large-scale mining. Case studies o...
Cemented Paste Backfill: Thickening, Transport and Mechanical Properties covers a wide range of topics, including a new definition of CPB, past participation and flow-induced corrosion of pipeline under the constant temperature condition, multiphysics processes in CPB and the associated consolidation process, the variation of rheological parameters and transport resistance, prediction model for rheological properties, mechanical behavior and properties of CPB and fiber-reinforced CPB, and contro...
This title was first published in 1976
Indigenous People and the Pilbara Mining Boom
by John Taylor and B. Scambary
This work presents an analyses of the fluid transport properties of rocks and the rock-fluid interactions that influence the flow of fluids. It is designed to provide research and field engineers with the theories, mathematical concepts and methods for measuring and testing the properties of rocks and fluid flow. Intended for classroom use, each chapter includes examples and solutions, and the book concludes with appendices of laboratory experiments.
Since the beginning of the Bronze Age, mankind has gone to extraordinary lengths to extract tin from the ground. Prized both in itself and for its use in various alloys, tin remains one of the most widely used metals in the modern world. This book depicts the full cycle of tin mining, from explaining why tin minerals are only found in certain places and the ways in which these deposits were discovered, through to the methods used to mine for tin, and how these techniques were refined over time a...
Stoves and Trees (Routledge Library Editions: Forestry)
by Gerald Foley, Patricia Moss, and Lloyd Timberlake
Originally published in 1984, Stoves and Trees asks whether better stoves really help the two billion people in the developing world who rely on wood and charcoal for cooking and heating their homes. It also asks if improved stoves actually save fuel and if they can help slow down tropical deforestation. The book not only examines newer stoves but also ascertains how people buy, collect and use wood in the developing world. It finds that most forests are cleared for timber or farmland not fuelwo...
Prolonging the Cut of Southern Pine, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
by Herman Haupt Chapman
A "highly entertaining history [of] global hustling, cola wars and the marketing savvy that carved a niche for Coke in the American social psyche" (Publishers Weekly). Secret Formula follows the colorful characters who turned a relic from the patent medicine era into a company worth $80 billion. Award-winning reporter Frederick Allen's engaging account begins with Asa Candler, a nineteenth-century pharmacist in Atlanta who secured the rights to the original Coca-Cola formula and then struggled...