This edition, containing 28,500 terms, incorporates the technological developments and environmental regulations that have changed the minerals industry so dramatically.

It culminates a 5-year effort to incorporate not only standard mining-related terms but also terms in peripheral areas, such as the environment, marine mining, leaching, pollution, automation, and health and safety.

Many of these terms now have a legal definition based on law or regulation.

Introductory Mining Engineering outlines the role of the mining engineer throughout the life of a mine, including prospecting for the deposit, determining the site's value, developing the mine, extracting the mineral values, and reclaiming the land afterward.

This second edition is written with a focus on sustainability-managing land to meet the economic and environmental needs of the present while enhancing its ability to also meet the needs of future generations. Coverage includes aboveground and underground methods of mining for a wide range of substances, including metals, nonmetals, and fuels.

This book presents the latest information on such technologies as remote sensing, GPS, geophysical surveying, and mineral deposit evaluation, as well as continuous integrated mining operations and autonomous trucks. Also included is new information on landscape restoration, regional planning, wetlands protection, subsidence mitigration, and much more. New chapters include coverage of environmental responsibilities, regulations, and health and safety issues.

Generously supplemented with more than 200 photographs, drawings, and tables, Introductory Mining Engineering, second edition, is an indispensable book for mining engineering students and a comprehensive reference for professionals.

Originally published in 1556, Agricola's De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation-what today would be called the "scientific approach." It was therefore the first book to offer detailed technical drawings to illustrate the various specialized techniques of the many branches of mining, and the first to provide a realistic history of mining from antiquity to the mid-sixteenth century.

For almost 200 years Agricola remained the only authoritative work in this area, and by modern times it had become one of the most highly respected scientific classics of all time. A book more often referred to in literature on mining and metallurgy than any other, its Latin text prevented it from being as widely used as it might have been.

In 1912, the book was translated by former president Herbert Clark Hoover and his wife. Printed in a limited edition, the work was quickly bought up by book collectors, historians, and medievalists, who had found that there was much to be learned from its pages.

The book contains an unprecedented wealth of material on alluvial mining, alchemy, silver refining, smelting, surveying, timbering, nitric acid making, and hundreds of other phases of the medieval art of metallurgy.

The text even covers the legal aspects of mining-the use of boundary stones, forfeitures of titles, safety requirements of tunnel-building in the 1500s, and so on. But the plates, pehaps more than anything else, have insured Agricla's continued importance. Brilliantly executed drawings, richly detailed, reveal a whole medieval work of machinery, industrial techniques, tools, even costume and architecture.

All 289 of the original woodcuts are reproduced in this reprint of the 1912 edition, offering students of the period, commerical artists, engineers, metallurgists, and even curious general readers an unforgettable picture of the first age of technology.

Mining Explained: Discovery, Extraction, Refining, Marketing and Investing explains mining in layman's terms. The scientific, engineering, and fiscal processes employed in the transformation of a mine prospect to a metal producer are all here, but simplified and spelled out in English.

The text covers basic geology, ore deposits, high-tech processing, sampling and drilling, mining methods, processing ore, mining and the environment, the mining team, the business of mining, feasibility, metal markets, making sense of the numbers, and investing in mining.

The glossary helps shed light on the myriad geological and financial terms of the industry. This primer on the industry will increase your appreciation and knowledge of the industry.

Mining Engineering - the official journal of The Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. (SME) - has delivered news, industry information, the latest technological developments and more to the global mining community since 1949.

Backed by the world’s largest professional mining society, Mining Engineering is the industry publication every mining professional needs.