Author: Fred Brost Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc. ISBN: 1627876901 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
This is not only a story about mining, nor is it an autobiography, but rather a collection of interesting and sometimes strange stories from the author's life, tracing his way from an adventurous childhood through his training as a mining engineer, his service as a bomb disposal officer in the U.S. Army, and his adventures dealing with different cultures in places that most Americans only go as tourists -- if at all. What is it like to descend 11,000 feet below surface in a South African gold mine? To disarm a misfired missile in the launch silo? To survive an apocalyptical cargo cult event in Papua New Guinea? To face the blazing stars at night on the altiplano in Bolivia? To travel up the Amazon on a fool's errand, dining on armadillo on the half shell? To search for the Queen of Sheba's mines in Yemen? To expose mining scams in Arizona? These are some of the stories that the author relates in his own unique, informative, and sometimes ribald way. Any fan of travel and adventure stories should enjoy this book.
Author: D E Briggs Publisher: Woodhead Publishing ISBN: 9781855734906 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 908
Book Description
Brewing: Science and practice updates and revises the previous work of this distinguished team of authors, producing what is the standard work in its field. The book covers all stages of brewing from raw materials, including the chemistry of hops and the biology of yeasts, through individual processes such as mashing and wort separation to packaging, storage and distribution. Key quality issues are discussed such as flavour and the chemical and physical properties of finished beers.
Author: David L. McKay Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1553696883 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 356
Book Description
"Why Mining?" Professor Leslie Crouch asked the Author when being interviewed at the beginning of Third Year Engineering at the University of British Columbia in 1948. Giving an answer saying something like "...having always lived in or near mining towns, I enjoyed the people." It was a pretty lame answer but it was the best that could be given at the time. The Author's bibliography covers employment in Sheep Creek Gold Mines, Malartic Goldfields, Steep Rock Iron Mines, Rockiron, IMC, Cominco and Texasgulf Kidd Creek of a period of 35 years and then consulting on his own for 17 years. In his career, mining activities took him to many of the states in the US as well as all provinces and territories in Canada and to foreign assignments in Scandinavia, China and Kazakhstan. The question of "Why Mining?" is finally resolved or concluded in the Epilogue... "What other endevour could provide more fun than Mining? Mining had everything one would ever want in a career. There was travel, there was money to spend, there was money to be made, but most of all, there were people." Perhaps the answer given in 1948 was not too far off-the-mark because the Author did mention he enjoyed the people. This biography of a mining engineer's career (spanning the years of 1948 to 2000, a period of over 50 years) is about the "Mining People" met in the pursuit of his profession.
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