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Free Technology Books - Mining and Metallurgy
  1. Alternatives for Inspecting Outer Continental Shelf Operations by National Research Council Marine Board (page images at NAP)

  2. An Overview of Production of Specific U.S. Gemstones by Gordon Austin (illustrated HTML at USGS)

  3. Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An Autobiography by Henry Bessemer (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)

  4. The Impacts of Opencast Mining on the Rivers and Coasts of New Caledonia by Eric C. F. Bird, Jean-Paul Dubois, and Jacques A. Iltis (HTML at UNU Press)

  5. The Miner's Friend: or, An Engine to Raise Water by Fire Described by Thomas Savery (illustrated HTML at Rochester)

  6. Walking the Forty Acres: Building Stones - Precambrian to Pleistocene by S. P. Ellison and Joseph J. Jones (illustrated HTML at Texas)