Mine-Field: The Dark Side of Australia's Resources Rush (Large Print 16pt)
Mine-Field: The Dark Side of Australia's Resources Rush (Large Print 16pt)

Author: Paul Cleary

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781459661745

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In "Mine - Field," Paul Cleary counts the true human and economic costs of Australia's short - term mineral addiction. Australia is in the grip of a bad habit that won't be easy to break. As royalty - hungry governments license breakneck development of our finite mineral resources, people, families, communities and industries are being steamrolled by the mining juggernaut. Politicians consider them expendable victims as they roll out one big mining and gas project after another. High - risk projects are being approved without a full assessment of the long - term consequences. Mining is happening in just about every productive corner of our country. The implications are enormous and beyond the capacity of governments to manage responsibly. Farmers have been worn down, many left with hundreds of coalseam gas wells on their properties, after drawn - out negotiations with miners. A ground - breaking piece of reporting by the author of "Too Much Luck," "Mine - Field" plots the dubious networks created and greased by mining companies to get their projects through and exposes regulatory gaps that must be addressed to avoid an enormous and irreversible cost on society and the environment.

Shaping a Nation
Shaping a Nation

Author: Richard Blewett

Publisher: Geoscience Australia

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 571

ISBN-13: 9781921862823

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"Shaping a nation : a geology of Australia is the story of Australia's geological evolution as seen through the lens of human impacts, illustrating both the challenges and opportunities presented by Australia's rich geological heritage" -- Dustjacket blurb.

Australia's Mining Boom
Australia's Mining Boom

Author: Justin Healey

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781921507922

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Contains previously published information sourced frpm newspaper, magazines, journals, government reports, surveys, websites and lobby group literature. --Publisher.

The Australian Continent
The Australian Continent

Author: Brian Kennett

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2018-08-29

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 1760462470

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The Australian Continent: A Geophysical Synthesis is designed to provide a summary of the character of the Australian continent through the extensive information available at the continental scale, as a contribution to the understanding of Australia's lithospheric architecture and its evolution. The results build on the extensive databases assembled at Geoscience Australia, particularly for potential fields, supplemented by the full range of seismological information, mostly from The Australian National University. To aid in cross comparison of results from different disciplines, information is presented with a common projection and scales.

The Rare Metals War
The Rare Metals War

Author: Guillaume Pitron

Publisher: Scribe Publications

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1925938603

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The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth’s most precious metals — but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollution, shortages, and cross-border tensions. Drawing on six years of research across a dozen countries, this book cuts across conventional green thinking to probe the hidden, dark side of green technology. By breaking free of fossil fuels, we are in fact setting ourselves up for a new dependence — on rare metals such as cobalt, gold, and palladium. They are essential to electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, our smartphones, computers, tablets, and other everyday connected objects. China has captured the lion’s share of the rare metals industry, but consumers know very little about how they are mined and traded, or their environmental, economic, and geopolitical costs. The Rare Metals War is a vital exposé of the ticking time-bomb that lies beneath our new technological order. It uncovers the reality of our lavish and ambitious environmental quest that involves risks as formidable as those it seeks to resolve.

Guidebook to the Pegmatites of Western Australia
Guidebook to the Pegmatites of Western Australia

Author: Mark Ivan Jacobson

Publisher:

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780859053785

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Summarises the history, geology and minerology of all known pegmatites in Western Australia, as well as providing specific geodetic locations of these deposits and their owndership, where known.