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Gray Mountain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as mining)
avg rating 3.68 — 108,946 ratings — published 2014
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mining)
avg rating 4.36 — 16,341 ratings — published 2023
The Women of the Copper Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mining)
avg rating 4.10 — 9,536 ratings — published 2019
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as mining)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,932 ratings — published 2014
Town Is by the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as mining)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,765 ratings — published 2017
Elements of Mining Technology Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mining)
avg rating 3.77 — 154 ratings — published
Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as mining)
avg rating 4.33 — 347,548 ratings — published 2005
How Green Was My Valley (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mining)
avg rating 4.21 — 18,848 ratings — published 1939
Elements of Mining Technology Vol. 2 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as mining)
avg rating 3.86 — 93 ratings — published
Faith, Hope, and Ivy June (Library Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as mining)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,559 ratings — published 2009
Prayers for Sale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mining)
avg rating 3.87 — 19,353 ratings — published 1997
Angle of Repose (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mining)
avg rating 4.24 — 62,112 ratings — published 1971
Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.05 — 666 ratings — published 2024
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,377 ratings — published 2024
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.50 — 8,341 ratings — published 2023
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.29 — 508,198 ratings — published 2019
The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.08 — 412 ratings — published 2018
Elements of Mining Technology Vol. 3 (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.06 — 54 ratings — published
Tomboy Bride: A Woman's Personal Account of Life in Mining Camps of the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,221 ratings — published 1969
Work Song (Morrie Morgan #2)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,074 ratings — published 2010
Strange as This Weather Has Been (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,532 ratings — published 2007
Thunder & Roses (Fallen Angels, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as mining)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,863 ratings — published 1993
The Call of the Wild / White Fang (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.12 — 78,078 ratings — published 1903
Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 3.97 — 316 ratings — published
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.22 — 263,798 ratings — published 2019
Intrepid Explorer: The Autobiography of the World's Best Mine Finder (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.11 — 27 ratings — published 2014
Germinal (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.20 — 43,108 ratings — published 1885
Princess Academy (Princess Academy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.04 — 122,060 ratings — published 2005
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.27 — 778,137 ratings — published 2014
A History of American Mining (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published 1932
Little Audrey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 3.84 — 549 ratings — published 2008
The Big Fella: The Rise and Rise of BHP Billiton (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 3.76 — 58 ratings — published 2009
Coal: A Human History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,269 ratings — published 2003
Salt: A World History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mining)
avg rating 3.75 — 76,808 ratings — published 2002
Rocket Boys (Coalwood #1)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.20 — 24,158 ratings — published 1998
Mineral Exploration and Mining Essentials (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.56 — 25 ratings — published 2010
Saving Lucas Biggs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,492 ratings — published 2014
Rednecks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,967 ratings — published 2024
The Economic Definition of Ore: Cut-off Grades in Theory and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.14 — 684 ratings — published 2021
Underlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Landscape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.93 — 28 ratings — published 2014
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.44 — 12,519 ratings — published 1991
The History Of The Comstock Lode (Special Publication (Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology), 24.)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.74 — 19 ratings — published 1998
Mining North America: An Environmental History since 1522 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published
Rocky Mountain Mining Camps: The Urban Frontier (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.92 — 12 ratings — published 1973
Nostromo (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.81 — 17,945 ratings — published 1904
The Lucky Hat Mine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 4.09 — 176 ratings — published 2016
Gina Rinehart: The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.45 — 120 ratings — published 2012
Finding Far Away (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.00 — 4 ratings — published 2009
Mining Frontiers of the Far West, 1848-1880 (Histories of the American Frontier)
by (shelved 3 times as mining)
avg rating 3.95 — 21 ratings — published 1963
“we fought a lot in welch. Not just to fend off our enemies but to fit in. Maybe it was because there was so little to do in Welch; Maybe it was because life there was hard and it made the people hard...maybe it was because mining was dangerous and cramped and dirty work and it put all the miners in bad moods and they came home and took it out on their wives, who took it out on their kids, who took it out on other kids.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
“Mining communities had lived in the shadow of the black for as long as they could remember. It was respected. Yet often, as with death, when the blackness was feared it was because they were heading in its direction. That gave them a semblance of control, or at least a belief that the dark matter could be tamed. Aberfan was different. The abyss itself was moving towards. And once it was unleashed, it showed no mercy for the innocent or the town in which they dwelled. That which was meant to be static and fixed into place, showed how it could move at tremendous speeds, like a black bolt of lightning striking across darkened skies to leave mortality in its pass. Death is not meant to run that fast.”
― How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in Post-Industrial Wales
― How Black Was My Valley: Poverty and Abandonment in Post-Industrial Wales
