Metals and Minerals Books

This book gave me insight into the methods, trials and tribulations of early precious metal miners in he US. Great Photographs! Fascinating page after page because the writer expressed himself in a way that an interested novice could understand. I read the paperback edition, known as the second (revised and expanded) edition, first printing 2003, purchase price $30.00 new.

As someone with very little mining knowledge, I greatly appreciated the explanations of the various mining techniques. The author's obvious enthusiasm for the subject made the book a joy to read. Highly recommended for both mining experts and for those simply wishing to understand more about mining in earlier years.

A very comprehensive book that is compelling and fascinating. I learned many unusual and intriguing facts. I thought that I was familiar with historical mining technology, but this book covers many topics with a new and different perspective. The chemistry of precious metal recovery is explained in such a way as to be informative and educational. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a book that is informative while still being lively and entertaining with great references.

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I thought this book was very well written and researched. I would highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn more about precious metal mining in the old west. This book covers many subjects in detailed chapters that include the Gold Rush, Hard Rock Mining, Timbering, Pumping, Explosives, Machine Drills, Transportation, Power & Fuel, Fire Assay, Mills & Smelters, Mill Machinery, and an appendices that includes Mining & Milling Hazards. The many photographs, illustrations and tables were interesting which added to the pleasant reading experience.

Drills and Mills, which covers the history of mining, milling and smelting from the 1848 gold discovery in California to the late 19th century is a wonderful, well researched book.

Loaded with pictures,tables,illustrations,chemical formulae and many interesting side notes (factoids),the author covers the gamut in the machinery used to win the metals from the earth.
Excellent review on the evolution of the rock drill,explosives, crushing equipment, pumps, timbering, etc etc.

Also included within the 250 plus pages of good reading, is an excellent 10 page bibliography which is referenced to the chapter footnotes, to assist those who may have a futher interest in any of the subject matter. This is a must have book for the mining historian and for anyone interested in 19th century mining. In short a great book.

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It took me two years to obtain this book for it changed editor's houses several times in the near past. Yet, it was worth every efforts! The second edition is more thorough in it's common topics than the first edition, and contains new material. This book is worth every penny you'll spend on it and I bet that if you use it in the lab, you'll regret not being able to afford a second copy for safekeeping in your library. Whether you're a small time refining jeweller or a commercial gold refining operation, the book will not only give you applied recipes and procedures but also, stimulates your imagination with contemporary methods new ideas and an original conceptual approach to precious metal chemistry. It's a treasure trove of ideas and practical information for the non-chemist or the week-end basement-lab chemist who wants to learn the basics or the commercial operator who want to get new ideas on how to improve his bottom line.

Although you could follow the recipes of this book blindly, it requires an elementary base in chemistry to fully appreciate Ammen's impressive knowledge. For teaching yourself the bases of chemistry, I recommend "Chemistry: The Central Science" by Brown, Bursten and Lemay as the perfect companion. It is by far the greatest ground-level chemistry book I've ever seen; it will take you painlessly, and with captivating style, from the level of complete ignoramus to a level where you can be fully operational in basic chemistry. I wish all my basic science textbook had been that good. A comprehension of differential calculus is desirable but high school maths will more than suffice for the majority of the content, and certainly for most of the content related to precious metals chemistry. If you are not a chemist but had chemistry classes in high school or college, I suggest you throw away your old chemistry books and buy the pair ! If you intend to make precious metal chemistry your lucrative hobby, the pair of books will easily repay for themselves as much in enjoyment as in money.

This book is well written. It takes highly technical language and turns it into verbage any layman can understand and easily apply. The sketches and formulas makes learning even easier. I was able to understand and apply the refining of gold, silver, and platinum quickly.

Written in a clear and simple manner, this newly revised reference follows the great success of the first edition (referred to as the "Precious Metal Bible") with a complete overview of the recovering, testing, extracting, and refining of precious metals. Both primary sources - placer gold, black sand, and ores - and secondary sources - scrap jewelry, electronic scrap, old films, buffings, spent plating and stripping solutions, catalytic automobile converters, and old eyeglasses are covered.

Based on the author's experience as a professional chemist and metallurgist, this second edition offers a wealth of new material, delving more deeply into solvent liquid extraction and many other topics, and thus yielding much greater insight into these subjects.

Fabulously informative, both from the author's perspective and of course the great Edgar Cayce healing and historical knowledge. Beautiful pictures. Clear and large print, nicely layed out, lovely book.

I really enjoyed this book and found it filled with loads of useful information. As a designer of chakra-balancing jewelry, this well-written book will help me tremendously.

The Edgar Cayce Guide to Gemstones, Minerals, Metals, and More, is an excellent source guide for those interested in this area. The book has quality pages, colorful photographs, and terrific insights on the various stones, minerals, and metals. I have gone back to the book more than a few times and have recommended it to my friends and family. Ms. Kaehr certainly knows what she is writing about.

This is the best kind of book about metallurgy and chemical engineering, at once a glittering detective gem, while still being tough, funny, gorgeously detailed survey. You couldn't call "Advanced Sensor for Metals Processing" a thriller exactly, but it delivers some of the genre's most guilty pleasures, told in insistent, laser bright narration. How Bursey balances his comedy and his pathos is a marvel.

Call off the hounds, return the seats and tray-tables to their upright and locked positions, marry the daughter of the famous actress from One Life to Live, etc. This is the only book you'll ever need on advanced sensors (at least those for metal processing!!). B.W. Brusey has really given us a breezily told page-turner in a field where most books come off dry and cold as greenland tundra or cold like a luger's backside. The book is brutally honest and obviously comes from a man who keeps the images captured from advanced metal processing sensors for processing metal in the interstices of his eyelids and his corneas.

Haven't attempted the tome yet but it must be incredible given the author's name.

I bought this book years ago when I first visited Reno, Nevada and Virginia City's Comstock mines. Years have passed and I'm buying again because of all the books every written on the Comstock, this book has it all. If you want to know what it really was like in those mines, read this book.

This is an advanced text on the topic of pahse transformations. And I mean ADVANCED.

This book would be best used as a follow-up to a first year graduate phase trans course; it's far more in-depth than Porter and Easterling's book.

This text has five chapers (I have the second edition):

1) Application of the Gibbs energy-composition diagrams

2) Influence of elastic stress on phase transformations

3) Theory of capillarity

4) The kinetic equations of solid->solid nucleation theory and comparisons with experimental observation

5) Moving phase boundary problems

These are all very detailed reviews of the topic. Ch. 2, especially, I find helpful to my research.

So, in summary: An excellent text for people who need to understand *advanced* phase transformaiton theory.

Lakshmi Mittal is a pioneer and genius. You have to give credit to this man he redeveloped plants in the most hostile and torn countries ranging from kazahkistan, to algeria to montenegro, and at the same time making good $$$.

"...the main question for the company is whether to exploit, sell, or hold the deposit for future use. Mineral resource management can be seen as the discipline that deals with the required activities to support and make this decision."

This book explains the why, how and who of this fundamental decision faced by mining companies. The author also explains why this should be of vital interest to governments, educational institutions and the struggling shareholders of mining companies. Consequently, this book should be in the hands of anyone involved in, or aspiring to, management at either the operating or corporate level of the minerals industry.

Juan P. Camus explains in plain language the theory and use of cutoff grade optimization techniques developed by people such as Kenneth F. Lane, author of the highly regarded book, "The Economic Definition of Ore". The foreword is written by Ken Lane, who lays a challenge for the next book on this fascinating and fundamental aspect of our industry.

The real-life examples, based upon Juan's personal experience, illustrate how these optimization tools helped create huge value from mineral resources. Following the successful application of these principles of optimization within Codelco, the CEO of the world's largest copper producer is quoted as saying, "In the past, we were doing things right, but it seems that now we are doing the right things." These "right things" contributed well over a billion dollars to Codelco's value and still hundreds of millions more for another large Chilean copper producer. Interestingly, the author points out that the techniques he advocates could apply in other industries.

However, beyond the tools and of at least equal importance, the author reviews organizational theory to propose structures and systems to capture opportunities for value creation, which he contends elude too many players in the mining industry. The author distinguishes between Strategic and Tactical mine planning stages, noting their different objectives, roles, time horizons, technical requirements, the types of people suited to each and their relative value creation potential. The author argues that without the proper systems in place for planning, the value of the mineral resource will be sub-optimal. Not only will the owners' be worse off as a consequence, but so also will governments, suppliers and society at large. Proper management of resources is vital to the mineral industry.

The book can be read relatively quickly, touches upon a wide breadth of knowledge and will leave the reader realizing that value creation in the mineral industry goes well beyond the familiar routines of employing economy of scale and cutting costs. As the author amply illustrates, the value of mineral resources lies very much in the application of intellect and ingenuity.

This new millennium belongs to biotechnology. Rapid progress is being made in minerals processing based on biological principles. Microorganisms can play a beneficial role in all facets of minerals processing, from mining to waste disposal and management. Biohydrometallurgical extraction of metals from a wide variety of ores is being commercially practiced all over the world and especially in Canada, the United States, Russia, South America, Australia, and Europe. The interactions among biotechnology, metals, and minerals are relevant to a number of emerging in interdisciplinary areas such as biogenesis and biomineralization, biomaterials processing and biomimetics, ceramics and biomedical engineering, biomineral beneficiation, bioleaching, biocorrosion, biofouling, biodeterioration, and bioenvironmental control. This book contains 18 articles divvied into four main sections titled Biobeneficiation; Bioleaching; Bioremediation; and Biominerilaztion. Written by industry experts, the book provides the technical knowledge necessary to complete in this arena by presenting specific detailed technologies and real-world case studies.