Quarrying, opencast and Alluvial mining /

Sinclair, John

Quarrying, opencast and Alluvial mining / John Sinclair - Amsterdam ; London ; New york : Elsevier publishing company Ltd , c1969 - vii, 375 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

1. Introduction
2. Prospecting
3. Planning and development
4.Removal of over burden
5. The use of explosive in surface mining
6.Quarrying Hard rocks
7.Working iron and copper deposits by open pits
8. Opencast coal
9. Surface mining of bauxite, clays, chalk and phosphates
10. Surface mining of global, platinum, Uranium and gemstones
11.Sand and Gravel
12. Alluvial mining
13 . Power supply in the surface mining industries
14. Reclamation after surface mining
15. The management after surface mines
Appendix 1- Electormagnetic prospecting p359
Appendix 11- Performance of medium and large draglines p365
Appendix 111- Aggregate in concreate p365


Includes bibliographic references . _ Index : p371-375

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