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For anyone working or interested in the mining and natural resources industry, this should form a collection of essential reads.
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The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
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Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining
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Argyle: The Impossible Story of Australian Diamonds
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
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Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia: Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
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Glaciers: The Politics of Ice
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The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
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4.18 avg rating — 341 ratings
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Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia
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Common Ground on Hostile Turf: Stories from an Environmental Mediator
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3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
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The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age
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David S. Abraham (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 254 ratings
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Ring of Fire: High-Stakes Mining in a Lowlands Wilderness
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Matewan Before the Massacre: Politics, Coal and the Roots of Conflict in a West Virginia Mining Community
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3.79 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Never Rest on Your Ores: Building a Mining Company, One Stone at a Time (Footprints Series) (Volume 26)
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4.10 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico
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Napoleon Gomez (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the Survivors of One of the Worst Disasters in Coal-Mining History Brought Suit Against the Coal Company--And Won
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Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places
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Christopher Pollon (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Only a Miner: Studies in Recorded Coal-Mining Songs
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The Rush That Never Ended: A History of Australian Mining
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Auraria: The Story of a Georgia Gold Mining Town
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How Mining Works
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Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place
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Peter Eichstaedt (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 98 ratings
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United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?
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The Fight for Coal Mine Health and Safety: A Documented History
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Mining Economics Explained: A Guide for Boards, Executives, Managers and Investors
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3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster
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4.04 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Appalachian Coal Mines & Railroads
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Mining Capital: Methods, Best-Practices and Case Studies for Financing Mining Projects
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The Goldenseal Book of the West Virginia Mine Wars
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Rare Metals War: the dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
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4.03 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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Thunder In the Mountains: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21
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4.17 avg rating — 247 ratings
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
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Hidden America: From Coal Miners to Cowboys, an Extraordinary Exploration of the Unseen People Who Make This Country Work
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More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy
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4.12 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, 1880-1922 2nd Edition (Volume 16) (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA)
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4.35 avg rating — 60 ratings
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When Miners March
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Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
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3.81 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The Devil Is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom
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The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources
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3.67 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Opportunity, Montana: Big Copper, Bad Water, and the Burial of an American Landscape
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Brad Tyer (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
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Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough
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3.60 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Rare: The High-Stakes Race to Satisfy Our Need for the Scarcest Metals on Earth
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3.45 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal that Made America
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Struggling for Air: Power Plants and the "War on Coal"
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4.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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4.32 avg rating — 761 ratings
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The Tallahassee Coal Plant Fight: 2005 - 2007
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A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
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3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Coal Dust on the Fiddle: Songs and Stories of the Bituminous Industry
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Coal: A Human History
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Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal
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Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict
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Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
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J. Peter Brosius (Contributor)
4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
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Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction
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Wess Harris (Editor)
4.28 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Workers
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Africa
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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Longstreet Highroad Guide to the Georgia Coast & Okefenokee (Longstreet Highroad Coastal Series)
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Okefenokee Album
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