This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s and by the richest man in the...
Mines and mineral resources
- Auteur:Silber, William L.Sommaire:
- Auteur:Hutchinson, MichaelSommaire:
Sam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the cousins find that each new...
- Auteur:Lewis, R. C.Sommaire:
A futuristic retelling of Snow White in which seventeen-year-old Essie, a master at repairing robots and drones on the frozen mining planet Thanda, is pulled into a war by handsome and mysterious Dane after his shuttle crash-lands near...
- Auteur:Reintgen, ScottSommaire:
Desperate to return home to Earth and claim the reward Babel promised, Emmett and the Genesis team join forces with the Imago. Babel’s initial attack left their home city in ruins, but that was just part of the Imago’s plan. They knew...
- Auteur:Reintgen, ScottSommaire:
"File this book under A for Amazing." -Jay Kristoff, New York Times bestselling author Discover book two in the sci-fi space trilogy that Bustle described as " The 100 meets Illuminae " and Marie Lu called, "a high-octane thriller."...
- Auteur:Fox, Candice, Patterson, JamesSommaire:
When Sydney police department sex crimes detective Harriet Blue learns that her brother is suspected in the murders of three women, she is shocked. To make things worse, she is transferred to Perth to investigate a missing outback mine...
- Auteur:Mousseau, NormandSommaire:
Un ouvrage essentiel pour quiconque s’intéresse au développement du Québec, mais aussi à la gestion de ressources non renouvelables sur une planète de plus en plus petite.
- Auteur:Albert, Susan WittigSommaire:
The town of Indigo is beign revived through efforts of China Bayles, criminal attorney turned herbalist, and ehr artsy country crew. But when landowner Casey Ford threatens to sell his property to a strip mining company, the townsfolk...
- Auteur:Howard, IreneSommaire:
Gold Dust on His Shirt is an evocative telling of the experience of a Scandinavian immigrant family of hard-rock miners at the turn of the century and up to World War II. Based on fascinating historical research, these are tales of...
- Auteur:Suarez, DanielSommaire:
The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation a mission that could alter the...
- Auteur:Bafilemba, Fidel, Prendergast, JohnSommaire:
Includes a PDF of photographs.
- Auteur:Stainton, Shirley D.Sommaire:
A warm-hearted memoir of a childhood spent living in various mining towns in the Kootenays throughout the 1930s and '40s. When young Shirley Doris Hall and her family moved to BC's West Kootenay region in 1927, the area was a...
- Auteur:Wolf, KevinSommaire:
Fleeing his ruined reputation, frontier newspaper man Kepler arrives in the Colorado mining town of Brokeheart in the hopes of making a fresh start. As he begins to report the goings on of Brokeheart and the conditions at the mine,...