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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock salt and potash. Any material that...
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is Daniel Yergin's 800-page history of the global oil industry from the 1850s through 1990. The Prize benefited from extraordinary timing: published in October 1990, two months after the invasion...
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- Jan 15, 1991
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De Re Metallica
De re metallica (Latin for On the Nature of Metals (Minerals)) is a book cataloging the state of the art of mining, refining, and smelting metals, published in 1556. The author was Georg Bauer, whose pen name was the Latinized Georgius Agricola. The...
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- 1556
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The Transition of Juan Romero
"The Transition of Juan Romero" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 16, 1919, and first published in the 1944 Arkham House volume Marginalia.
The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep...
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- Sep 16, 1919
How to be rich
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Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil
Discovery! The Search for Arabian Oil is a non-fiction book written by Pulitzer Prize winning American author Wallace Stegner.
Written by Stegner in the late 1950s the book was originally serialized in fourteen parts in the magazine Saudi Aramco...
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- 2007
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Life of Elbert H. Gary
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The next bend in the river
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Tales of a Tin Mine
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Last Man Out
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Oil, God, and Gold: The Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings
Oil, God, and Gold: The Story of Aramco and the Saudi Kings is a book by Anthony Cave Brown.
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- 1999
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Oil man
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The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future
The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future is a book by T. Boone Pickens.
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- 2008
