Overview of mining and minerals engineering
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CRC Engineering Handbooks Online - CRCnetBASE
CRC Engineering Handbooks Online - CRCnetBASE
Search or browse across the full text of over 1800 CRC engineering handbooks. Each chapter is available as a downloadable PDF. Our subscription does not include every ebook available through CRCnetBASE; be sure to limit to "Full access content only" when searching.
Earth and Environmental Science encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Earth and Environmental Science encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across nine subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 42,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
Treatise on Geophysics from ScienceDirect
Treatise on Geophysics from ScienceDirect
The Treatise on Geophysics provides full-text reference articles in HTML and PDF on geophysics: seismology, structure of the earth, minerals, geodesy, geomagnetism, evolution of the earth, and planets and moons. References linked via CrossRef, which generates a Get VText window.
Knovel Online Interactive Library
Knovel Online Interactive Library
Knovel provides a large collection of ebooks on engineering and related subjects. Each chapter is presented as a separate PDF. The entire collection is full-text searchable, and many results include interactive tables. Includes tables of properties for over 13,000 chemical compounds. Limited to simultaneous users.
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