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

The extraction and processing of minerals is an essential part of the way the world and its various civilizations function and interact. To forget the contribution that mining has made (and continues to make) is to take for granted the significant progress that civilization has made since the last Ice Age. It is also to ignore the fact that the very structure upon which we depend is built on—and with—the products of mining. <...>