Best Mining Books
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1. The Metal Detecting Bible: Helpful Tips, Expert Tricks and Insider Secrets for Finding Hidden Treasures
Author: by Brandon Neice
English
128 pages
1612435270
Get started with metal detecting or improve your treasure hunting skills with the ultimate A-to-Z guide revealing everything you need to know to become a metal-detecting expert. Nothing is as thrilling as finding cool (and often valuable) stuff right under your feet.
So grab this guide and get ready to dig up more and more finds. Packed with helpful information on making your search successful and exciting, The Metal Detecting Bible serves up step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and useful photos that can turn you into a professional treasure hunter.
From quick-start tips for novices to insider secrets for the most experienced hobbyists, this hands-on guide is the ultimate resource on all aspects of metal detecting. Choose the best metal detector Learn where to search and why Practice appropriate swing techniques Integrate advanced GPS technology Scout out beaches, parks and historic sites Gain permission to hunt on private property Identify antique coins, relics and jewelry Use handy target recovery tools Clean and safely preserve your finds Sell your finds for a profit
2. The Metal Detecting Handbook: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Uncovering History, Adventure, and Treasure
Author: by Mark Smith
English
280 pages
1510711740
Enthusiastic and thorough, everything you need to know about discovering buried treasure from choosing your first metal detector to finding locations loaded with possibilities, and everything in between. There is an incredible amount of treasure buried right under our feet, but most people don’t even know this huge amount of untold wealth exists.
Imagine how it must feel to uncover large caches of silver and gold coins or long-lost jewelry packed with shimmering, precious stones. These are not some made-up fairy talesthere are people who, at this very moment, are finding these treasures.
Veteran metal detector and treasure hunter Mark Smith takes you under his wing and demystifies treasure hunting in Metal Detecting by revealing his most closely guarded secrets and sharing personal stories of success. These valuable lessons and truly amazing treasure hunting stories will make you wonder why you aren’t out there with a metal detector right now!
Metal Detecting cuts right through the technical jargon and spells everything out with full-color illustrations and easy-to-understand terms, making this book simple to follow, regardless of your prior treasure-hunting experience. Novices and seasoned veterans will both find plenty of helpful information buried in the pages of this bookMark shows you how to get out there and claim your own share of treasure, be it gold, silver, meteorites, old coins, jewelry, or relics.
3. Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
Author: by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Mariner Books
English
272 pages
Financial Times Business Book of the Year FinalistIlluminating and very timely … A fascinating and sometimes alarming survey of big data’s growing effect on just about everything: business, government, science and medicine, privacy, and even on the way we think. New York TimesIt seems like big data is in the news every day, as we read the latest examples of how powerful algorithms are teasing out the hidden connections between seemingly unrelated things.
Whether it is used by the NSA to fight terrorism or by online retailers to predict customers’ buying patterns, big data is a revolution occurring around us, in the process of forever changing economics, science, culture, and the very way we think.
But it also poses new threats, from the end of privacy as we know it to the prospect of being penalized for things we haven’t even done yet, based on big data’s ability to predict our future behavior. What we have already seen is just the tip of the iceberg.
Big Data is the first major book about this earthshaking subject, with two leading experts explaining what big data is, how it will change our lives, and what we can do to protect ourselves from its hazards. An optimistic and practical look at the Big Data revolution just the thing to get your head around the big changes already underway and the bigger changes to come.
4. Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
Author: by Martin Meredith
B06XCJKT7K
September 23, 2008
English
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 most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and the devastation of the Boer republics. The New Yorker calls this magisterial account of those years [an] astute history. Meredith expertly shows how the exigencies of the diamond (and then gold) rush laid the foundation for apartheid.
5. Metal Detecting: A Beginner's Guide: to Mastering the Greatest Hobby In the World
Author: by Mark Smith
English
218 pages
1494964414
Invaluable for the first timer! I wish I had this book when I was just starting the hobby of metal detecting! Josh in Florida I have been metal detecting for over 5 years and this great metal detecting guide book taught me plenty of new tips and tricks.
Mike in Texas You can never learn too much about metal detecting. This book covers all the basics and some more advanced techniques too. Bill in California The illustrations and pictures made it so much easier to understand pinpointing and recovering targets.
Todd in Chicago I found my first good coin site using the information in this book. I pulled over 25 pieces of silver out of the ground! Tim in Indiana This metal detecting book turned me on to some new places to hunt that produced some very valuable finds.
Bob in Tennessee There is an entire world of buried treasure right under our feet. This book shows you how to claim your share. Over 200 pages of valuable metal detecting information designed to get you out there finding treasure on your very first outing.
6. Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
Author: by Michael Punke
B01BB1XMQ0
February 22, 2016
English
From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant the book that inspired the award-winning movie comes the remarkable true story of the worst mining disaster in American history. In 1917, the lives of a company of miners changed forever when the underground labyrinth of tunnels in which they worked burst into flames.
Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and sixty-four of them would be dead.
7. The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West
Author: by Gregory Crouch
Scribner
English
480 pages
A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made AmericansWell-written and worthwhile (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode.
Born in 1831, John W. Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant who came of age in New York City, went to California during the Gold Rush, and mined without much luck for eight years. When he heard of riches found on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1859, Mackay abandoned his claim and walked a hundred miles to the Comstock Lode in Nevada.
Over the course of the next dozen years, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, thwarting the pernicious Bank Ring monopoly to seize control of the most concentrated cache of precious metals ever found on earth, the legendary Big Bonanza, a stupendously rich body of gold and silver ore discovered 1,500 feet beneath the streets of Virginia City, the ultimate Old West boomtown.
8. The Great American Turquoise Rush: 1890-1910
Author: by Philip Chambless
English
244 pages
1632931664
The Great American Turquoise Rush was the period of the largest concerted effort to mine, process and market turquoise in the history of the United States. It started when traditional markets for the clear sky blue Persian turquoise closed and the east coast jewelers, who controlled the jewelry trade in the United States, were forced from necessity to reappraise the quality of turquoise from the American Southwest.
The efforts to control this new market were begun in New Mexico but would expand into other states. This is the true story of that time, largely forgotten or remembered only from oral tradition.
9. Mineral Processing Plant Design, Practice, and Control (2 Volume Set)
Author: by Andrew L. Mular
English
2500 pages
0873352238
This 2 volume set is an up-to-date reference based on 138 proceedings papers from the October 2002, Mineral Processing Plant Design, Control and Practice Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. It was the first conference to comprehensively address plant design and operational issues in more than a decade.
This indispensable resource covers all aspects of plant designfrom concept to pilot plant to full-scale production. Valuable guidance is provided on overall project management, and on the design, optimization, and control of all related processes. This will become the new standard text for university instruction and a valuable guidebook for operators considering new construction, renovations, or expansions.
Most of all, it’s a practical, quick reference for engineers, consultants, suppliers, manufacturers, or anyone involved in the design or operation of a minerals processing plant.
10. Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa
Author: by Matthew Gavin Frank
English
224 pages
1631496026
Unforgettable….An outstanding adventure in its lyrical, utterly compelling, and heartbreaking investigations of the world of diamond smuggling. Aimee NezhukumatathilFor nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed overmined and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market.
Immediately, he became intrigued by the ingenious methods used in facilitating smuggling particularly, the illegal act of sneaking carrier pigeons onto mine property, affixing diamonds to their feet, and sending them into the air. Entering Die Sperrgebiet (The Forbidden Zone) is like entering an eerie ghost town, but Frank is surprised by the number of people willingeven eagerto talk with him.
Soon he meets Msizi, a young diamond digger, and his pigeon, Bartholomew, who helps him steal diamonds. It’s a deadly game: pigeons are shot on sight by mine security, and Msizi knows of smugglers who have disappeared because of their crimes.
11. Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest: A Guide to the Area’s Best Sites for Gold
Author: by Garret Romaine
Falcon Guides
English
288 pages
Gold Panning the Pacific Northwest is the premiere reference source for anyone who is interested in getting started or continuing their gold prospecting in the pacific northwest region. Containing accurate, up-to-date prospecting information for all known panning areas in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
The write-ups for each locale include driving directions, GPS coordinates, historical information, land ownership restrictions, full-color photos, and geological background. Features include:Full-color imagesGPS coordinatesGeology basicsTools of the trade for every level of collectorRules and regulationsPolishing, preserving, crafting, and displaying your treasures
12. Mineral Resource Estimation
Author: by Mario E. Rossi
Springer
English
346 pages
In this popular text that has trained thousands in the petroleum industry for years, Dr. Norman Hyne takes readers through upstream operations-from how oil and gas are formed; how to find commercial quantities; how to drill, evaluate, and complete a well-all the way through production and improved oil recovery.
He uses lots of pictures, graphs, and illustrations to aid readers in understanding topics and to provide necessary visuals. Read it cover-to-cover as a complete primer, read it a section at a time as it comes up in your profession, and keep it handy as a quick reference.
New to this edition: A chapter on unconventional oil and gas (including gas shales) Modern tools used in well logging Modern drilling rig methods and equipment Expanded glossary includes 1,500 new terms More figures and plates Up-to-date statistics
14. Poor Man's Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850–1950
Author: by Jarod Roll
B07XDDJJH9
April 8, 2020
English
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 century from the Civil War to World War II.
With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal.
With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners’ choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society.
