Mining Industry Books

New and Published Books

1. Building Big Business in Russia

   The Impact of Informal Corporate Governance Practices

   By Yuko Adachi

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This book examines the development of big business in Russia since the onset of market oriented reform in the early 1990s. It explains how privatized post-Soviet enterprises, many of which made little sense as business units, were transformed into functional firms able to operate in the environment...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry

   Evidence from South America

   Edited by Anthony Bebbington

   Series: Routledge ISS Studies in Rural Livelihoods

   The extraction of minerals, oil and gas has a long and ambiguous history in development processes – in North America, Europe, Latin America and Australasia. Extraction has yielded wealth, regional identities and in some cases capital for industrialization. In other cases its main heritages have...

   Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge
3. Regulatory Governance and Risk Management

   Occupational Health and Safety in the Coal Mining Industry

   By Binglin Yang

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   Regulatory Governance and Risk Management will be the first book addressing the diffusion of risk-based governance in the coal mining industry from a health and safety standpoint. More specifically, it aims to understand a puzzling phenomenon. Since the 1990s, the approach of risk-based governance...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
4. The International Tin Cartel

   By John Hillman

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   For most of the twentieth century, tin was the site of new forms of international regulation which became a model for other commodities. The onset of the depression of the 1930s saw a collapse in commodity prices, and governments of tin producing countries decided to form a cartel to return the...

   Published March 9th 2010 by Routledge
5. Shotcrete: More Engineering Developments

   Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Engineering Developments in Shotcrete, October 2004, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

   Edited by Erik Stefan Bernard

   Marking a crucial point in the sharing of research, this cutting-edge text spearheads advances in cross-industry expertise. Presenting papers addressing topics ranging from repair, accreditation of nozzlemen, and early-age performance, to the blast resistance of shotcrete linings, the work draws on...

   Published September 14th 2004 by Taylor & Francis
6. Mine Planning and Equipment Selection 2004

   Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection, Wroclaw, Poland, 1-3 September 2004

   Edited by Monika Hardygóra, Gabriela Paszkowska, Marek Sikora

   Spearheading the promotion of international technology transfer in the fields of mine planning, mining systems design, equipment selection and operation techniques, the International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection is recognised by the mining society as a key annual event in...

   Published August 14th 2004 by Taylor & Francis
7. Mine Ventilation

   Proceedings of the 10th US / North American Mine Ventilation Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 16-19 May 2004

   Edited by S. Bandopadhyay, R. Ganguli

   The purpose of the 10th US North American Mine Ventilation Symposium in Anchorage 2004 was to bring together practitioners involved in the planning and operation of underground ventilation systems, to provide a forum for debate and exchange of ideas, and to share information on the...

   Published May 14th 2004 by Taylor & Francis
8. International Mining Forum 2004, New Technologies in Underground Mining, Safety in Mines

   Proceedings of the Fifth International Mining Forum 2004, Cracow - Szczyrk - Wieliczka, Poland, 24-29 February 2004

   Edited by Jerzy Kicki, Jacek Sobczyk

   This book comprises technical papers that were presented at the International Mining Forum 2004. This event aims to bring together scientists and engineers in mining, rock mechanics, and computer engineering, with a view to explore and discuss international developments in the field. The book is...

   Published December 31st 2003 by Taylor & Francis