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Adelaide: Libraries Board of South Australia (LBSA), 1970. Hardback octavo, no jacket as issued, very good condition, red cloth cover (gilt spine lettering), adverts front & rear pages, foldout map inside rear cover, owner's written names. 86 pp. Facsimile edition, by the Libraries Board of South Australia, and originally published in 1888. A description of the recently discovered Broken Hill lead-zinc ore deposits, as reported in an Adelaide newspaper by an anonymous author ('A Special Correspondent').

Perth, Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press / Charles & Joy Staples South West Region Publications Fund, 1995. Paperback wide octavo, very good condition, few black & white text-photos, rear cover corners creased, minor edgewear cover corners. 104 pp. This book is about the strike in 1911, at the Scottish Colliery, near the isolated coal settlement of Collie Burn, Western Australia. At the heart of the dispute was the issue of solidarity: the struggle between the striking miners and their adversaries, the 'blacklegs'.

Perth: Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA), 1942. Paperback small octavo, very good condition, thick card covers (black cloth spine), tables, glossy paper, figures, map, foldout map at front, minor edgewear & bumping, minor annotation front cover. 61 pp. Because of recent increased interest during WW2, these two complementary reports summarise what is known about the petrology, mineralogy and mining potential of the crocidolite (blue asbestos) deposits of the Hamersley Ranges, plus two appendices of previous brief reports. (This historic document was published well before the nasty cancer-causing property of blue asbestos was known.).

Melbourne: Penguin Group Australia, 2013. 1st ed.. Paperback thick octavo, good condition, black & white & colour & sepia (brown-tinted) photos, maps inside covers, top spine lightly bumped, corner tips covers little creased, tiny edge tears few pages, minor edgewear. 395 pp. Malcolm Knox reveals the history of mining as the Australian story. A readable and insightful book which describes the people behind the facts and figures. The book shows how mining and miners have shaped Australia's history and business through boom and bust.

Canberra: Department of Supply And Shipping / Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology And Geophysics, 1947. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, good condition, stapled (rusted), thin card covers, tables, map, graph, pages lightly toned, covers little faded, spine faded, top spine little scuffed, small tear front cover bottom of spine, some edgewear. 15 pp. This pamphlet has been compiled in association with the Mines Departments of the State and Territories. The pamphlet covers: World Production, Uses, Industry In Australia, Buyers and Prices, Australian Sources, Australian Production, Overseas Trade, Australian Consumption, General Summary, References. (No 21 in this series.).

Adelaide: Government Printer, 1951. 1st ed.. Paperback tall trade, good condition, stapled (little rusted), figures, frontispiece map, diagrams, corners faded rear cover, two library stamps on front cover, bottom corner front cover & some pages creased, tiny stain top corner tips last few pages, minor edgewear. 91 pp. The work leading to the results contained in this publication forms part of an extended investigation of the properties of the clays and other ceramic materials of Australia. The present report is a general preliminary survey of the clays known to the Department of Mines of South Australia, and is designed to amplify and extend the information contained in Bulletin 12 of the Geological Survey of South Australia. Data and discussions regarding all clays investigated are arranged in the alphabetical order of local place-names. A valuable reference for the future.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), figures, maps, minimal edgewear jacket. 228 pp. Rising sea levels pose major challenges to all aspects of coastal existence - economic, residential, and environmental - but also to cartography (mapping of coasts). Monmonier explores shifting landscapes, cartographic technology and climate change, and reveals that coastlines are as much a set of ideas, assumptions, and societal beliefs as they are solid black lines on maps. Coastlines challenge mapmakers to capture on paper a highly irregular land-water boundary perturbed by tides and storms and complicated by rocks, wrecks, and shoals. Peppered with captivating anecdotes about the frustrating effort to expunge fictitious islands from nautical charts, the tricky measurement of a coastline’s length, and the contentious notions of beachfront property and public access.

Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011. Paperback large trade, very good condition, minor toned spot fore-edge. minor edgewear, old price marks. 220 pp. Until recently, few except geologists had heard of tantalum or 'coltan' - an obscure mineral that is an essential ingredient in mobile phones and laptops. Then, in 2000, reports began to leak out of Congo (so-called Democratic Republic): mines deep in the jungle where coltan was extracted in brutal conditions watched over by warlords. This book describes in detail the complex politics of coltan including unstable government, rebel militias, transnational corporations, the metals marketplace, determined activists, Hollywood celebrities, the rise of China, and the latest iGadget. Nest argues the political significance of coltan lies not in its link to violence, but in skilful use of mobile phones by activists as a symbol of how ordinary people and transnational corporations far from Africa are implicated in the Congo coltan industry and therefore its conflict. Read More

Brisbane: Queensland Department Of Mines, 1974. 1st ed.. Paperback small quarto, very good condition, thin card covers, frontispiece, stapled pamphlet (staples concealed), figures (four fold-out), tables, few page corners little creased, light foxing & toning edges, minor edgewear, owner's bookplate inside front cover. 68 pp. From the summary: Twenty-two small copper mines are described, copper mining activity, and company exploration in the period 1966 - 1972 are reviewed, and the future role of gouger mining is discussed.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1985. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minimal edgewear. 260 pp. This textbook describes the physics of the plastic deformation of solids at high temperatures for geologists or geophysicists interested in the high-temperature behaviour of crystals. Acquaints with the methods of materials science. Explains the most important models and recent experimental results of materials science. Also explains the essential solid-state physics, thermodynamics and hydrostatics of creep, creep models and their applications in geology, diffusion creep, and superplastic deformation and deformation enhanced by phase transformations. Extensive bibliographies are presented.

Perth: Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA), 1970. Paperback wide octavo, very good condition, red flexible cover, appendices (tables & black & white plates), minor edgewear, rubber stamp front cover. 158 pp. The GSWA recently surveyed the Devonian reef complexes, Lennard Shelf, northern margin Canning Basin (Bulletin 118). Two geologists from the University of Queensland here provide a detailed photographic catalogue of the rugose and tabulate Devonian fauna of the Lennard Shelf.

Sydney: New Century Press, 1948. 1st ed.. Paperback trade, brown flexible covers, very good condition, edges lightly foxed, pages faintly toned, spine little rubbed, corners covers little worn. 119 pp. This dictionary has been written to help people who need some knowledge of the meaning of the terms used in the petroleum industry. The author has used simple everyday language to explain the terms used. Also be of interest to people who collect old engineering and geology books.

City Not Stated: Joint Coal Board, 1999. 1st stated ed.. Paperback small, stapled pamphlet, card covers, very good condition. 16 pp. The Diesel Particulate Sub-Committee has produced this booklet to promote a better understanding of the hazards and appropriate control methods associated with diesel particulates in the coal mining industry.

Sydney: William Heinemann / Random House, 2011. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour photos, front cover lightly scratched, slight bump base spine, minor edgewear. 296 pp. Matthew Benns provides the true story of Australia's mineral boom. It is a story of greed, corruption and murder. A book every Australian needs to read, because it is the story of our national wealth, and how those who have access to it are abusing the privilege. Environmental pollution and exploitation of African nations are mentioned.

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2005. Paperback trade, very good plus condition, black & white photos centre spread, minimal edgewear. 291 pp. The story told through the eyes of despairing Australian farmers who have lived through numerous droughts over the more than 200 years of European settlement in Australia. There has been a reluctance to acknowledge drought as a constant and integral part of the Australian landscape.

Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (MUP), 2011. 1st ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minimal edgewear. 292 pp. This book takes the author across the Antarctic ice, under the seas and through the tropical rainforests of far north Queensland. This book reveals startling truths about climate change, government policy and the future of Earth.

London: Borough Press, 2016. New ed.. Paperback, very good condition, few black & white photos, pages lightly toned (few toned spots edges), minor edgewear. 338 pp. Michael Punke relates the true story of the worst mining disaster in American history at North Butte, Montana. In 1917, the lives of a company of miners changed forever when the underground labyrinth of tunnels in which they worked burst into flames. The were more than 400 men locked in a battle to survive. Over three days, 164 of them would die.

London: Clarendon Press, 1924. 4th revised, reprint ed.. Hardback small, no jacket, good condition, light green decorative cloth boards, black & white figures, maps, spine little faded, top edge & fore-edge cover little scuffed, spine ends little rubbed, small scuff front cover, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear cover corner tips, owner's written name inside front cover. 176 pp. A student textbook on the geography of Australasia, written by Griffith Taylor, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Sydney. Includes New Zealand, Papua and the Pacific Islands. There are 30 chapters, many covering specific geographic regions. (Fourth edition revised is 1919, this copy unstated reprint, 1924. Originally published, 1914.).

Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1956. 9th, revised ed.. Hardback octavo, no jacket, very good condition, light blue boards (navy writing), frontispiece, illustrated endpapers, black & white photos, maps, tables, spine ends chipped, covers little marked, pages lightly toned (edges toned,), some edgewear & rubbing, owner's written name & details reverse side front free flyleaf. 184 pp. Ninth edition, extensively revised. Consists of certain chapters of the larger book South Australia: A Geographical Study, re-arranged and re-written for the use of candidates for the Intermediate Examination in Geography. It has been considerably revised and extended by staff of the Geography Department of the University of Adelaide and the original author. A great book for students and anyone with an interest in geography in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Melbourne, Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2014. Hardback quarto, no jacket as issued, very good condition, pictorial cover, colour text-figures & photos, tables, tiny bump top spine. Heavy (1.6 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 384 pp. This book, edited by Peter Cook, provides a detailed account of the CO2CRC Otway Project, one of the most comprehensive demonstrations of the deep geological storage or geosequestration of carbon dioxide undertaken anywhere. This book has 18 comprehensive chapters, written by leading experts in the field, and is more than a record of outstanding science - it is about learning by doing. The book explains how the project was organised, managed, funded and constructed, as well as the approach taken to community issues, regulations and approvals. The book is for geologists, engineers, regulators, project developers, industry, communities, anyone who wants to understand how a carbon storage project works. It is also for people… Read More