Mineral exploration and mining
Russian developments of equipment and technology of deep hole drilling in ice V. Litvinenko
InnoCrush: New solutions for highly selective process chains B. Grafe, A.H. Bravo, M. Hesse, R. Morgenstern, K. Rosin, T. Schlothauer, I.V. Talovina & V.S. Nikiforova
The forecast deformations of the ground surface during mining under protected objects A.D. Kuranov, B.Yu. Zuev & R.S. Istomin
Innovative rock destruction process via laser technology and thermal spallation for faster and efficient drilling in mining, geothermal and other hard rock environments S. Jamali, V. Wittig & R. Bracke
High pressure jetting in various rocks—investigation of failure mechanism and development of drilling process D.P. Gradzki, S. Hahn, S. Jasper, V. Wittig, R. Lindken & R. Bracke

This volume discusses the mineral resources upon which modern civilization is built. Take away these minerals and humanity will rapidly return to the stone age, with its greatest concern the depletion of flint (also a mineral). It would, of course, result in about a 99% reduction in population. In other words, approximately 99% of the worlds' population is dependent on minerals for its existence.

Minerals, both metallic and nonmetallic, and building stones have played key role in shaping human civilization since ancient times. Demand for and production of these earth resources increased manifold during the Industrial Revolution and both have seen an exponential growth during the last century, keeping pace with growing national and global economies. Ever-widening base of mineral use has made minerals an integral part of our everyday life.

The Apuan Alps are commonly defined by geologists with the term “tectonic window”, an area where geological processes have brought to the surface rocks that usually lie buried deep under other rock formations. The Apuan Metamorphic Complex is today divided into two tectonic units: the Apuan Unit and the Massa Unit to which belong the mineral deposits object of this study <...>

Съ давнихъ поръ, все выдѣлываемое Уральскими торговли Уральзаводами желѣзо, за исключеніемъ незначительной скихъ заводовъ мѣстной продажи, доставлялось сплавомъ на Нижегородскую ярмарку, гдѣ и продавалось партіями и въ розницу.
Ко времени прибытія каравановъ съ желѣзомъ, или еще ранѣе, по пути слѣдованія ихъ въ г. Лаишевъ, на встрѣчу имъ выѣзжали крупные желѣзоторговцы, употреблявшіе всѣ мѣры, чтобы закупить желѣзо оптомъ, по возможно низкимъ цѣнамъ <...>

Скорнякова Н.С., Кожевникова Е.Г., Мурдмаа И.О., Оськина Н.С., Горбунова З.Н., Рудакова А.Г. Об особенностях плейстоцен-голоценового пелагического седиментогенеза в Бразильской котловине (Атлантический океан)    
Зверев В.П., Кононов В.И., Воробьев СЛ., Зотов А.В., Лаврушин В.Ю., Карташова Л.Ф., Прилуцкая Т.А. Гидрогеохимическая среда современной седиментации и начального диагенеза в районе Центральноамериканского желоба и впадине Пескадеро

Глушенкова Н.И., Агаджанян А.К. Палеогеография плейстоцена внеледниковой зоны Среднерусской возвышенности    
Гареев Э.З., Маслов А.В. Основные петрохимические особенности и условия образования аркозовых комплексов рифея и венда Южного Урала

Composition and evolution of fluids depositing tin and tungsten ores in Kibaran quartz vein deposits allow the modelling of devolatizing evolved granites as their source at depth. Fluids forming gold quartz veins and breccias are different from the first, especially by showing characteristics of a high-pressure environment. All deposits are controlled by compressional deformation whose fading phases affect earlier formed veins. These findings lead to the conclusion that both anatectic melting resulting in intrusion of fertile granites, and the generation of fluids forming gold deposits are the final consequence of deep crustal metamorphism. The latter was caused by crustal thickening immediately preceding the metallogenetic climax. <...>

Щулькин В.М., Цуканова Е.В., Май борода А.Б. Влияние современной гидротермальной деятельности на содержание металлов в донных осадках бухты Матупи (о-в Новая Британия, Папуа Новая Гвинея)        
Холодов В.Н., Хейров М.Б., Халилов Н.Ю. История развития Среднего Каспия в олигоцен-четвертичное время и перспективы его нефтегазоносности    
Петрова В.В., Тумэнбаяр Б., Амарджаргал П. Генетические типы и условия образования цеолитолитов Монголии

The Kibara belt is an intracontinental mobile belt formed between 1400 and 900 Ma within a craton of Lower Proterozoic age. The belt's evolution started by early rifting at about 1400 Ma, and continued by transition into a marine basin filled by clastic sediments > 10 km thick, with minor basic and acidic volcanic rocks. At about 1300 Ma, the pile was deformed by thrusting and folding of the main Kibaran Orogeny and intruded by numerous large syn-orogenic granite bodies.