SME Mining Engineering Handbook / Руководство по горному делу для малого и среднего бизнеса

It was in 1918 that Robert Peele, assisted by 46 collaborators, edited the first edition of the classic Mining Engineers’ Handbook. Like the second and third editions, released in 1927 and 1941, respectively, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., was the publisher. No doubt, there are a number of mining engineers in practice today who remember and still refer to Peele’s highly regarded work.

By good fortune, in 1967, when a new handbook was sorely needed and Wiley declined to publish a new edition, the Society of Mining Engineers of AIME (now the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.) rose to the occasion. With Arthur B. Cummins as chairman of the Editorial Board and Ivan A. Given as editor, a first edition of the new SME Mining Engineering Handbook appeared in late 1973. Timely and authoritative, it has served the profession well for nearly two decades <...>