Mining, 9780198861362
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Digging deep: Unearthing Earth’s resources, responsibly, for a sustainable future.

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    144 pages

  • Release Date

    13 December 2023

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Summary

Digging Deep: A Very Short Introduction to Mining

‘If it can’t be grown, it must be mined’. This fundamental truth underscores the global need for mining, and the reason why it has been carried out since prehistoric times. To supply the raw materials for buildings, industrial goods, vehicles, technology, and even art, minerals and rock must be removed from the Earth.

‘Mining’ describes this removal, but also covers the ore deposit exploration, developments of ore deposit mod…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198861362
ISBN-10:0198861362
Series:Very Short Introductions
Author:Prof Karen A. Hudson-Edwards, Dr Hannah S.R. Hughes, Karen A. Hudson-Edwards
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:13 December 2023
Weight:0g
Dimensions:174mm x 111mm
About The Author

Prof Karen A. Hudson-Edwards

Karen Hudson-Edwards is Professor of Sustainable Mining at the Camborne School of Mines and Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter. She holds a BSc in Geological Sciences at Queen’s University, Canada, an MSc from Memorial University of Newfound, and a PhD from the University of Manchester, UK. She has worked at the Geological Survey of Canada and Falconbridge as an exploration geologist and Birkbeck, University of London as lecturer toprofessor. Her research interests lie in the fields of geochemistry, mineralogy, mine waste characterisation and remediation, sustainable mining, and technology metals. She has published over 125 papers inthese fields.

Hannah Hughes is a Senior Lecturer in Exploration and Mining Geology at the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, UK. She holds a MESc in Earth Sciences from the University of Oxford, an MSc from Camborne School of Mines, and a PhD from Cardiff University, UK. She has previously worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Hannah’s research focuses on the processes controlling the formation and geochemistry of magmatic rocks andmineral deposits hosted within these, as well as the distribution and mobility of precious metal in the Earth’s crust and mantle and the causes of gas explosions in underground mines.

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