Author: J. P. LegerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Towards Safer Underground Gold Mining
Author: J. P. LegerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Underground Mining Methods
Author: W. A. HustrulidPublisher: SME
ISBN: 0873351932
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Underground Mining Methods presents the latest principles and techniques in use today. Reflecting the international and diverse nature of the industry, a series of mining case studies is presented covering the commodity range from iron ore to diamonds extracted by operations located in all corners of the world. Industry experts have contributed 77 chapters. This book is certain to become a standard for every practicing mining engineer and student alike. Sections include: General Mine Design Considerations, Room-and-Pillar Mining of Hard Rock/Soft Rock, Longwall Mining of Hard Rock, Shrinkage Stoping, Sublevel Stoping, Cut-and-Fill Mining, Sublevel Caving, Panel Caving, Foundations for Design, and Underground Mining Looks to the Future.
Third World Workers
Author: P.C.W. GutkindPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004478019
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Making Sense of Mining History
Author: Stefan BergerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429516959
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and mining, environment and mining, mining accidents, the visual history of mining, and mining heritage. The result is a counter balance to more common national and regional case study perspectives.
Going for Gold
Author: T. Dunbar MoodiePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520086449
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
"An indispensable look at the working conditions, social lives, and collective action of black miners. . . . [Moodie's] meticulous, reflective, incessantly questioning approach to power, drink, sexuality, conflict, and routine life in mines and compounds reveals an extraordinary world at the edge of hope and desperation."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research "Combines a rigorous use of theory with a marvellous and sensitive sympathy."—Terence O. Ranger, co-editor of The Invention of Tradition
Violence in a Time of Liberation
Author: Donald L. DonhamPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822348535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This ethnographic analysis of violence that broke out in a South African gold mine soon after apartheid ended in 1994 shows how violence comes to be blamed on ethnic differences retrospectively&—and often wrongly.
Artisanal and Small-scale Mining
Author: Thomas HentschelPublisher: IIED
ISBN: 1843694700
Category : Mineral industries
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Based on studies from countries in Africa, South America and Asia, looks at small-scale mining activities which often are both illegal and environmentally damaging, and dangerous for workers and their communities. Gives an overview on the issues and challenges involved, concluding about how sustainable development can be achieved.
Finding Gold in Colorado - Prospector's Edition
Author: Kevin SingelPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781719553469
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.
Production, Safety and Teamwork in a Deep-Level Mining Workplace
Author: Sizwe Timothy PhakathiPublisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1787145646
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The book highlights the day-to-day lived experience of miners’ work and organisational practices that shape the day-to-day running of the production process in a deep-level mining workplace.
Critical Engagement with Public Sociology
Author: Andries BezuidenhoutPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529221153
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Involving four generations of Global South researchers, this book provides a theoretical and empirical critique of Burawoy’s model of public sociology. It offers a bridge between debates on public sociology and decolonial frameworks.