Introductory mining engineering / Вводные сведения по горному делу

The inception of every worthy project, i am told, can be traced to the influence of a person or an event or both. The beginnings of this book go back over 30 years to Lute Parkinson at the Colorado School of MiTs a£! his assignment of the greenest, brashest assistant professor on the faculty to team-leach with him the introductory mining engineering course It was quite an experience for both of us! He and my other mentors, Eugene pfleidcr at the University of Minnesota and Merritt Williamson at the Penn-sylvania State University, now deceased, together inspired this effort, because they encouraged me to address the perennial shortage of textbooks in our field. <...>