The Merrill story : (being a record of the life and achievements of Charles Washington Merrill, and a history of the Merrill Company and subsidiaries) /

Mode of access: Internet.

Prospectus of the West Virginia Iron Mining and Manufacturing Co., incorporated by the Legislature of Virginia, Mar. 15, 1837.

Mode of access: Internet.

A brief description of the property belonging to the Lycoming Coal Company : with some general remarks on the subject of the coal and iron business.

"Dec. 1828."

High grade engineering, surveying and mining instruments /

Mode of access: Internet.

A text-book of coal-mining. For the use of colliery managers and others.

Short bibliography at end of each chapter.

Two reports: on the coal lands, mines and improvements of the Dauphin and Susquehanna coal company, and of the geological examinations, present condition and prospects of the Stony Creek coal estate, in the townships of Jackson, Rush, and Middle Paxtang, in the country of Dauphin, and of East Hanover township,

Mode of access: Internet.

The Mining world index of current literature

Subtitle varies slightly

Leaves from an Argonaut's note book; a collection of holiday and other stories illustrative of the brighter side of mining life in pioneer days

The milk pan.-The new leaf.-The Thanksgiving dinner.-The reservoirs.-The legend of Humbug Gulch.-The Joes.-Cyrus Billings' dream.-Bill's luck.-The ferry.-Simpson's Thanksgiving.-Stubbs' wooing.-The end of leap year.-Mrs. Crumpey's boarders.-Mr. Snively's vacation.-The story he told the prospectors.

Company E., Iron Mountain Volunteers in the Spanish-American War

verso: taken 1898 at Central House, old hotel in Iron Mountain, meeting place for mining men, etc.

Roughing it in Siberia, with some account of the Trans-Siberian railway, and the gold-mining industry of Asiatic Russia,

Mode of access: Internet.

Mineral land surveying : a technical treatise on the surveying and patenting of mineral land, designed for the use of Deputy Mineral Surveyors and Students of Mining Engineering, with an appendix of contributed notes of interest /

Reprint. Originally published: Denver : The Mining Reporter Publishing Company, 1906.

Harnessing Natural Resources for Development: New Legal Regimes for Localized Benefit Sharing in the Mining Sector

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

A text mining approach to materiality assessment

Worldwide companies currently make a significant effort in performing the materiality analysis, whose aim is to explain corporate sustainability in an annual report. Materiality reflects what are the most important social, economic and environmental issues for a company and its stakeholders. Many studies and standards have been proposed to establish what are the main steps to follow to identify the specific topics to be included in a sustainability report. However, few existing quantitative and structured approaches help understanding how to deal with the identified topics and how to prioritise them to effectively show the most valuable ones. Moreover, the use of traditional approaches involves a long-lasting and complex procedure where a lot of people have to be reached and interviewed and several companies' reports have to be read to extrapolate the material topics to be discussed in the sustainability report. This dissertation aims to propose an automated mechanism to gather stakeholders and the company's opinions identifying relevant issues. To accomplish this purpose, text mining techniques are exploited to analyse textual documents written by either a stakeholder or the reporting company. It is then extracted a measure of how much a document deals with some defined topics. This kind of information is finally manipulated to prioritise topics based on how the author's opinion matters. The entire work is based upon a real case study in the domain of telecommunications.

Geochemistry Of Acid Mine Drainage From A Coal Mining Area And Processes Controlling Metal Attenuation In Stream Waters, Southern Brazil.

Acid drainage influence on the water and sediment quality was investigated in a coal mining area (southern Brazil). Mine drainage showed pH between 3.2 and 4.6 and elevated concentrations of sulfate, As and metals, of which, Fe, Mn and Zn exceeded the limits for the emission of effluents stated in the Brazilian legislation. Arsenic also exceeded the limit, but only slightly. Groundwater monitoring wells from active mines and tailings piles showed pH interval and chemical concentrations similar to those of mine drainage. However, the river and ground water samples of municipal public water supplies revealed a pH range from 7.2 to 7.5 and low chemical concentrations, although Cd concentration slightly exceeded the limit adopted by Brazilian legislation for groundwater. In general, surface waters showed large pH range (6 to 10.8), and changes caused by acid drainage in the chemical composition of these waters were not very significant. Locally, acid drainage seemed to have dissolved carbonate rocks present in the local stratigraphic sequence, attenuating the dispersion of metals and As. Stream sediments presented anomalies of these elements, which were strongly dependent on the proximity of tailings piles and abandoned mines. We found that precipitation processes in sediments and the dilution of dissolved phases were responsible for the attenuation of the concentrations of the metals and As in the acid drainage and river water mixing zone. In general, a larger influence of mining activities on the chemical composition of the surface waters and sediments was observed when enrichment factors in relation to regional background levels were used.

[lean Production And Psychosocial Risks: The Case Of A Multinational Merger In A Metallurgical Company In Brazil].

This study focused on the method known as lean production as a work-related psychosocial risk factor in a Brazilian multinational auto parts company after its merger with other multinational companies. The authors conducted a qualitative analysis of two time points: the first using on-site observation and key interviews with managers and workers during implementation of lean production in 1996; the second, 16 years later, comparing data from a document search in labor inspection records from the Ministry of Labor and Employment and legal proceedings initiated by the Office of the Public Prosecutor for Labor Affairs. The merger led to layoffs, replacements, and an increase in the workday. A class action suit was filed on grounds of aggravated working conditions. The new production model led to psychosocial risks that increased the need for workers' health precautions when changes in the production process introduced new and increased risks of physical and mental illnesses.