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Quarrying Opencast and Alluvial Mining
John Sinclair
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Description for Quarrying Opencast and Alluvial Mining
Paperback. Num Pages: 382 pages, 80 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: TTU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 567.
Quarrying and all other branches of surface mining rather than diminishing in importance have become of more and more consequence economically, industrially and particularly with the depletion of high-grade deep-mined mineral reserves. Low-grade minerals require low cost extraction and this in many cases necessitates very expensive mechanized equipment with the cost of individual units running into millions of pounds in the case of large scale operations with high productivity. There has been, and there still is, a tendency for the smaller single quarries to be amalgamated into groups with large financial resources and therefore with the ability to purchase these ... Read more
Quarrying and all other branches of surface mining rather than diminishing in importance have become of more and more consequence economically, industrially and particularly with the depletion of high-grade deep-mined mineral reserves. Low-grade minerals require low cost extraction and this in many cases necessitates very expensive mechanized equipment with the cost of individual units running into millions of pounds in the case of large scale operations with high productivity. There has been, and there still is, a tendency for the smaller single quarries to be amalgamated into groups with large financial resources and therefore with the ability to purchase these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
Number of Pages
375
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401176132
SKU
V9789401176132
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