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Recently, our understanding of metals and metallurgy in the Early Bronze Age Aegean has been dominated by studies which focus on the circulation and provenance of metals. Over the last decade the study of early metallurgy in the Aegean has witnessed dramatic developments with ever earlier and more detailed evidence for metal production being discovered in the field. Paralleling these field studies are a wealth of new laboratory analyses relating to the material aspects of metal production. This diverse new data when coupled with recent theoretical approaches now allow for significant shifts in our understanding of this important aspect of Aegean prehistory. Since few studies of metallurgy have extended beyond typological analysis of artefacts, the circulation of raw materials and the detailing of technical processes, metallurgy in the Aegean Early Bronze Age was made a subject of discussion at the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology's Round Table. This volume contains fifteen papers which address aspects of mining smelting and artefact production from a range of theoretical perspectives. It represents the first publication of many of the key details from numerous newly discovered sites. Contributors include Yannis Bassiakos, Phillip Betancourt, Mihalis Catapotis, Peter M. Day, Nota Dimopoulou-Rethemiotaki, Roger Doonan, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Jim Muhly, Georgia Nakou, Olga Philaniotou-Hadjianastasiou, Sue Sherratt, Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Yiannis Papadatos and David E. Wilson. ... Read more

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Otto ridicules his sister for eating so much and having a pot belly, but the time comes when he appreciates her foraging abilities and fearlessness. ... Read more

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Has a good Richardson-Jeffes nomograph
Darken and Gurry's text contains an excellent nomograph for the Richardson-Jeffes diagram (Figure 14-4, page 349).It is better than Richardson and Jeffes' original diagram in the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, Vol. 160, 1948, pages 261-270.Richardson & Jeffes used a translucent overlay, but Darken & Gurry made it into a nomograph, making it easier to copy and draw on.It also contains more information than the Ellingham diagram (H. J. T. Ellingham, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, Vol. 63, 1944, pages 125-133).

The classic metallurgical thermodynamics text
This is the classic text that applies thermodynamics and physical chemistry to metallic systems.The thermodynamics follows the basic approach of texts such as Lewis and Randall's "Thermodynamics".The opening chapters cover gasses and liquids as background for the rest of the book that is oriented to metallic systems.It begins with the laws of thermodynamics, but instead of focusing on steam engines it concentrates on solutions, heterogeneous equilibrium and phase diagrams.The book provides a firm foundation for understanding phase relations and phase diagrams.It covers metal (mostly Fe) oxide, carbide, nitride and sulfide systems with specific reference to steel production.I feel that its discussion of Richardson diagrams is particularly clear and I have used it and the diagrams that are provided for over 40 years.The book covers more than just thermodynamics. Being a physical chemistry text, applied to metals, it also has chapters on kinetics, electrochemistry and diffusion.

This is the classic text that has been the basis of more modern books.In my opinion it may have been equaled, but never been surpassed for clarity and the depth of understanding that it provides.I would recommend this book for students and practicing metallurgists who want an adjunct to their current textbooks.

Great Book about finding one's niche in the world
Gertrude the Possum has a potbelly.Her brother Otto does not and ridicules her for it. However when Otto goes out after her one night in search of food and is unsucessful, she is able to prove that she is courageous and is able to find food for the both of them.This book is delightfully different than most books with an overweight protogonist.Instead of Gertrude losing weight and becoming a "normal" sized possum, she is able to come into her own and prove herself.This book is fine proof that you need not be of "normal" weight to be successful in what you do. ... Read more

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*Provides engineers, researchers, and designers with a complete understanding of how various metals perform under a wide range of conditions
*Explains the advantages, disadvantages, and tradeoffs of using different materials and processes
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Good book, but with a somewhat misleading title
This is a good book, but with a somewhat misleading title.It should more accurately have been titled Physical Metallurgy of Steels because it is primarily about steels and is much more than just a handbook.A handbook conjures up a vision of a book that is primarily a source for data.There is a lot of data in this book, but it contains much, much, more.It is an excellent text, covering all aspects of the metallurgy of steel in great detail.There are separate chapters on Pearlite, Martensite, Bainite and Austenite, as well as ones on the hardenability and heat treatment of steels; plus chapters on the metallurgy of diffusion, plastic deformation, recovery-recrystallization, grain growth and nucleation in solids in general.These chapters cover all metals, not just iron based ones.This is an excellent metallurgy reference, particularly for anyone interested in steels.
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Whether you're an experienced evaluator of mineral projects, a student, or a decision maker who is not a practitioner but must use evaluation results, this new book is an essential reference for your bookshelf. Designed to complement traditional engineering texts, this book emphasizes the concepts of mineral project evaluation rather than computational details. It describes various economic evaluation techniques typically employed (including conventional cost analysis, discounted cash flow, and option analysis), their uses, and their relationships with geological, technological, and financial evaluations. Also discussed are the strengths and weaknesses of commonly practiced evaluation methods.

This book explains the practical difficulties in conducting an analysis and correctly interpreting the results, as well as the use of alternative techniques. Because many existing texts do not adequately discuss the meanings and application of merit measures, such as net present value (NPV) or internal rate of return (IRR), this book represents an exciting departure from standard reference tools. Contents include: why NPV and IRR are both valid and useful merit measures the shortcomings of conventional NPV and IRR analysis the dangers of scenario analysis why conventional incremental analysis is not needed to correctly calculate IRR why the desire to achieve NPV-consistent IRR is misleading how competitive cost analysis is conducted and used why option pricing is an important addition to the evaluation process.

When used correctly, evaluation methods are powerful tools to help us understand the economics of investment projects. Don't miss out on this new source. Contains glossary and full index. ... Read more

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Evaluating Mineral Projects
The mineral evaluator has that peculiar necessity of requiring knowledge equally in the two fields of his discipline: the physical science that explains minerals and the financial science that arranges the numbers describing their configuration.

This is a good introduction to financial side of the discipline of evaluating mineral resources. The concepts are described from scratch with great lucidity. Abstruse concepts of the financial apparatus are given a commonsensical turn which deftly assist the understanding. Methods of valuation which rely on geological and minerological investigations are unfortunately sparsely treated or absent.

For a quick introduction to the subject, one that is easy to understand and thorough on the financial side of mineral appraisal, I do recommend this book.

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Wire drawing is a metalworking process used to reduce the diameter of a wire by pulling the wire through a single, or series of, drawing die(s). The engineering applications of wire drawing are broad and far-reaching, including electrical wiring, cables, tension-loaded structural components, springs, paper clips and spokes for wheels.

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Of all the crafts and professions other than the priesthood, none has been more closely connected with the religious taditions of Western peoples than mining and metallurgy. Not so long ago our ancestors would have found it incredible that people could not see the connections between mining, metallurgy, and the sacred, just as we now find it incredible that they could. What was a commonplace to the European mind for millennia has for us become a matter of the deepest obscurity. This is a matter of more than historical interest. It goes to the heart of how we think about work, about religion, and about the relations between people and nature. For our ancestors most forms of work were spiritual paths, disciplines that shaped those who engaged in them as powerfully as the ritual of church or temple. In many crafts and professions the stages by which the learner was inducted were initiations into substantial undestandings of the spirit and of spiritual practice. The early chapters of this book consider how the smith god of the Greeks and Romans made the world in his forge, how Moses made the tabernacle as God commanded, and how mining was sanctified in the Middle Ages. Traditionally, these forms of work were thought to repeat and extend the creative powers of God and nature, and those who engaged in them enjoying a special insight into the processes of the divine creaion. The withdrawal of the sacred sense from human work has diminished religion in many Western societies, and the several stages by which this withdrawal occurred is one of the major concerns of this book. This same withdrawal has also diminished our sense of the relations between the human and natural worlds. In earlier times people felt that working with the natural world helped it to bring to birth the many goods with which it was in labor. Work fulfilled not only the worker but nature itself. Even in quite recent times the spirits of the earth, the fairies and dwarfts, actively assisted farmers and miners in their work according to common belief, and the fifth chapter considers some of the stories about these elemental denizens of the mine. The final chapter examines how the belief in such creatures came to be lost and the consequences of that loss for our understanding of the natural world. This book is a book of stories from many different places and times in the history of the West, and the juxtaposition of these stories in a coherent sequence reveals a way of looking at work, nature, and religon that was much more substantial than is our own. ... Read more

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Updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this book helps readers gain a thorough understanding of the interaction of the tooling and metal during plastic deformation.New to this edition is updated coverage of sheet forming, recognizing appropriate boundary conditions, slab analysis, Hill's generalized anisotropic yield criteria, high exponent criterion, an approximate analysis of earing, sheet metal properties, and more.An ideal reference for mechanical engineers, materials engineers, and metallurgical engineers, as well as researchers in sheet forming. ... Read more

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Best undergraduate textbook on metal forming
I have used this book over and over again in my 16 years as a metallurgist.It is written in a style that is easy to follow and there are very few typo's in the formulas. ... Read more

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This comprehensive, student friendly text is intended for use in an introductory course in physical metallurgy and is designed for all engineering students at the junior or senior level. The approach is largely theoretical but all aspects of physical metallurgy and behavior of metals and alloys are covered. The treatment used in this textbook is in harmony with a more fundamental approach to engineering education. An extensive revision has been done to insure that the content remains the standard for metallurgy engineering courses worldwide. ... Read more

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An advanced yet accessible treatment of the welding process and its underlying science.

Despite the critically important role welding plays in nearly every type of human endeavor, most books on this process either focus on basic technical issues and leave the science out, or vice versa. In Principles of Welding, industry expert and prolific technical speaker Robert W. Messler, Jr. takes an integrated approach—presenting a comprehensive, self-contained treatment of the welding process along with the underlying physics, chemistry, and metallurgy of weld formation.

Promising to become the standard text and reference in the field, this book provides an unprecedented broad coverage of the underlying physics and the mechanics of solidification—including peritectic and eutectic reactions—and emphasizes material continuity and bonding as a way to create a joint between materials of the same general class. The author supplements the book with hundreds of tables and illustrations, and correlates the science to welding practices in the real world.

Principles of Welding departs from existing books with its clear, unambiguous presentation, which is easily grasped even by undergraduate students, yet given at the advanced level required by experienced engineers. ... Read more

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Good Book
Good general source of knowledge for welding and materials joining. Covers material thoroughly.

A comprehensive description in welding technology
This is another book from Messler, the writer of Joining of Advanced Material. It encompasses most of the welding metallurgy of metals, chemistry of the weld pool (which is very rare in other welding books), andphysics of welding in detail. However, it doesn't go deep enough to thedescription about welding processes. Those who wish to read some detailsabout wedling processes need to look for other books. ... Read more

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The Chemistry of Gold Extraction is an extensively revised and comprehensively updated edition of the well-known reference first published in 1992. It provides the broad base of knowledge that is now required by all those working in the gold extraction and gold processing industries. The book bridges the gap between research and industry by emphasizing the practical applications of chemical principles and techniques.

The technical reference includes in-depth discussions on:
•Historical Developments
•Ore Deposits and Process Mineralogy
•Process Selection
•Principles of Gold Hydrometallurgy
•Oxidative Pretreatment
•Leaching
•Solution Purification and Concentration
•Recovery
•Surface Chemical Methods
•Refining
•Effluent Treatment
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Pure Gold In and Of Itself
This book is an amazingly detailed exposition of gold concentration and extraction.Many books are long on the theory and very thin on the engineering issues involved.Other books are enhanced process diagrams and cookbooks and give little theory.This book is a treasure with a perfect blend of theory and the engineering process to utilize that theory.
Although I have a strong sciences background and 30 years of engineering experience my area is expertise is well outside of geology and process control chemistry.Therefore, a comprehensive view of the entire processing from geology to gold bar is a real treat.
One other item - trying to get this information on a paper by paper basis would be financially ruinous as well as maddening.

the chemistry of gold extraction
I thing de last edition is 1991 or 1992
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Chapters on copper and Bronze, gold, silver, lead, iron, zin, brass. on evolving mining and metal-working capabilities, illus. major scholarly analysis ... Read more

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Designed for students who have already taken an introductory course in metallurgy or materials science, this advanced text describes how structures control the mechanical properties of metals. ... Read more

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An excellent text on physical metallurgy
This is an excellent text for an introduction to physical metallurgy. In its popularity it is perhaps second only to the famous text by Reed-Hill (now Reed-Hill and Abbaschian). Its coverge is limited compared to that of Reed-Hill (for example it doesn't contain chapters on creep and fracture). But the topicsdiscussed are usually at a higher standard than Reed-Hill. There are nice problems at the end of each chapters, most of them reasonably challenging. If you are connceted with physical metallurgy you should definitely get a copy of this book. ... Read more

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This book documents the most extensive study ever on the use of deep sea tailing placement at the Island Copper Mine on Canada’s Vancouver Island.The study examined all aspects of this innovative program which utilized 400 million tons of tailing solids, beginning with its initial implementation in 1971 to five years after the mine’s closure in 1995. Coverage includes placement program, engineering, chemical, biological, cost savings and environmental considerations. Includes 8 color pages ... Read more

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For students ready to advance in their study of metals, Physical Metallurgy, Second Edition uses engaging historical and contemporary examples that relate to the applications of concepts in each chapter.

This book combines theoretical concepts, real alloy systems, processing procedures, and examples of real-world applications. The author uses his experience in teaching physical metallurgy at the University of Michigan to convey this topic with greater depth and detail than most introductory materials courses offer.

What’s New in the Second Edition:

• New chapter on crystallographic textures and their influence on microstructure and properties
• Expanded section on aluminum-lithium alloys
• New information on copper and nickel
• Rewritten chapters on other non-ferrous metals and low carbon steels
• New discussions of compact graphite and austempered ductile iron
• Expanded discussions of cemented carbide tools
• Updated table on metal prices

Following an introduction to metals, the author covers topics that are common to all metals, including solidification, diffusion, surfaces, solid solutions, intermediate phases, dislocations, annealing, and phase transformations. He also focuses on specific nonferrous alloy systems and their significant metallurgical properties and applications, the treatment of steels (including iron-carbon alloys), hardening, tempering and surface treatment, special steels, low carbon

sheet steel, and cast irons. The book also covers powder metallurgy, corrosion, welding, and magnetic alloys. There are appendices on microstructural analysis, stereographic projection, and the Miller-Bravais system for hexagonal crystals. These chapters address ternary phase diagrams, diffusion in multiphase systems, the thermodynamic basis for phase diagrams, stacking faults and hydrogen embrittlement.

With ample references and sample problems throughout, this text is a superb tool for any advanced materials science course.

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This 800+ page book contains a wealth of information for mining students and industry professionals. It consists of selected material from the out-of-print industry standard, Underground Mining Methods Handbook. More than 40 chapters covering such underground mining topics as sampling, planning, reserve analysis, cost calculations, various methods of support, block and panel caving, and sublevel caving make up this comprehensive text. Numerous tables and figures enhance the extensive material found in each chapter. An excellent teaching tool and source book, Techniques in Underground Mining is a must for any mining student or engineer. ... Read more

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A reviewed selection of a must-have handbook
For those which on 1982 were too little to study or work with the original blue book, this handbook is a valuable selection of the topics covered in that handbook which are in some parts updated. I think it's a very good reference book for mining engineers, hoping that the new comprehensive version of the blue book will be available soon.

Underground Mining: A full review
This textbook is a longer review about all the types of underground mining, based in real applications in mining operations around the world. It's an excellent text for mining engineering students or people that work in related companies. ... Read more