areas not well treated by Reynolds and other historians: in the fields of mining, metallurgy, and textiles – including the … costly, overshot wheels. The study thus begins with the late-medieval technological revolutions in both mining and metallurgy …

, which should be useful to managers, in general, not only in strip mining. Simple linear programming techniques are derived …

resource in Northeast China. Historical mining exploitation has caused extensive impact on environment. The objective of this … study was to quantitatively evaluate the impact induced by mining activities in 106 mining sites and then find out the most … factor on mining environment. Through the comparison with Improved Analytic Hierarchy Process, 96.23 % of evaluation results …

mining companies. Private investment is projected to increase from 17.8 percent of GDP in 2012 to more than 40 percent in …

covering 26 provinces over the period 1977-2010.  This new dataset allows us to distinguish between mining and non-mining … sectors of the economy.  We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality.  In contrast, overall … growth and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality.  We also identify growth acceleration …