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
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Author:Silber, William L.Summary: -
Author:Lewis, R. C.Summary: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...
- Author:Mousseau, NormandSummary:
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.
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
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...
- Author:Bafilemba, Fidel, Prendergast, JohnSummary:
Includes a PDF of photographs.
- Author:Stainton, Shirley D.Summary:
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...
