Valuing Mining Companies: A Guide to the Assessment and Evaluation of Assets, Performance, and Prospects

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Valuing Mining Companies covers all aspects of mining, mining company evaluation, and financial valuation. It starts with a guide to history, focusing on the more recent aspects of the discovery of diamonds in Canada to the Bre-X fraud in Indonesia. This book provides an international view of the mining and metals industry from a historical perspective of mines and mining to potential problems encountered in attempting to value a mining company. In order to value a company it is necessary to evaluate its prospects from all points of view. This author goes through geology, mining, mineral processing, and the final marketing and pricing of a material commodity. It details the techniques used to value mining companies with a forecast of which metals will benefit in the future. The chapters devoted to accounting practices and taxation of mining companies provide essential information on the financial aspects of mining. Valuing Mining Companies provides a one-stop resource that answers all your questions about analyzing mining companies. The geological and mining aspects covered give you an understanding of the various practices of mining, even if you have no technical knowledge.

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e-Procurement stellt für viele Unternehmen eine sehr einfache und effiziente Möglichkeit dar, um Kosteneinsparungen im Einkauf zu erzielen und um durch Prozessoptimierungen nachhaltige Wettbewerbsvorteile zu erzielen. Der Leser erfährt, welche Überlegungen im Vorfeld einer e-Procurement-Implementierung angestellt werden müssen. Die Ansätze wichtiger e-Procurement-Systemanbieter werden miteinander verglichen, kritische Faktoren bei der Umsetzung von e-Procurement-Lösungen näher beleuchtet und Praxistipps für die Planung und Durchführung von e-Procurement-Projekten anhand von Beispielen gegeben. Das Buch präsentiert die erfolgreichsten Lösungsansätze, Standards und Softwareanbieter.

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Focuses upon the basic statistical problems criminal justice practitioners are likely to encounter. The book presents statistics as a set of tools or procedures for addressing specific data analysis problems rather than formal, somewhat abstract subject. This text is designed for criminal justice students, many of whom will be required to produce statistical reports at the administrative or supervisory level. Criminal Justice Statistics: A Practical Approach provides a clear and simple understanding of what is often perceived as a very difficult topic.

Provides a clear and simple approach to understanding statistics.
Geared towards the unique statistical needs of criminal justice students.
Introduces the reader to the use of SPSS, the computer program used by virtually all the social science.

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Practical Approaches to Legal Research
Kent C. Olson , and Robert C. Berring
Manufacturer: Haworth Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0866562532

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The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) has produced this book in order to provide an accessible, up-to-date overview of important aspects of the physical chemistry of aqueous systems at high temperatures and pressures. These systems are central to many areas of scientific study and industrial application, including electric power generation, industrial steam systems, hydrothermal processing of materials, geochemistry, and environmental applications. The authors goal is to present the material at a level that serves both the graduate student seeking to learn the state of the art, and also the industrial engineer or chemist seeking to develop additional expertise or to find the data needed to solve a specific problem.

The wide range of people for whom this topic is important provides a challenge. Advanced work in this area is distributed among physical chemists, chemical engineers, geochemists, and other specialists, who may not be aware of parallel work by those outside their own specialty. The particular aspects of high-temperature aqueous physical chemistry of interest to one industry may be irrelevant to another; yet another industry might need the same basic information but in a very different form.

To serve all these constituencies, the book includes several chapters that cover the foundational thermophysical properties (such as gas solubility, phase behavior, thermodynamic properties of solutes, and transport properties) that are of interest across numerous applications. The presentation of these topics is intended to be accessible to readers from a variety of backgrounds. Other chapters address fundamental areas of more specialized interest, such as critical phenomena and molecular-level solution structure. Several chapters are more application-oriented, addressing areas such as power-cycle chemistry and hydrothermal synthesis. As befits the variety of interests addressed, some chapters provide more theoretical guidance while others, such as those on acid/base equilibria and the solubilities of metal oxides and hydroxides, emphasize experimental techniques and data analysis.

- Covers both the theory and applications of all Hydrothermal solutions
- Provides an accessible, up-to-date overview of important aspects of the physical chemistry of aqueous systems at high temperatures and pressures
- The presentation of the book is understandable to readers from a variety of backgrounds

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Aqueous Systems at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures: Physical Chemistry in Water, Steam and Hydrothermal Solutions
D.A.; Fernandez-Prini, Roberto; Harvey, A.H. Palmer
Manufacturer: Academic Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OH42U8

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Space Oprea in the highest tradition of the Golden Age.......2003-11-16

This novel is a wonderful literary flashback for the reader who longs for the offerings of Scence Fiction's Golden Age. Planeteer Rip Foster and his platoon must drive a radioactive asteroid back to Earth via a series of controlled atomic explosions. If this isn't enough trouble, some seriously Soviet-style bad guys want the rock, and stop at nothing to try to get it. This book is one of my best memories of my early forays into Sci-Fi, and offers much to please the sci-fi fan at your house.

Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet (Golden Griffon Space Adventures)

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Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet (Golden Griffon Space Adventures)
Blake Savage
Manufacturer: Golden Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Space cadet Rip Foster is assigned to beat a band of sinister interplanetary pirates to a radioactive asteroid and bring it back to Earth.

RIP FOSTER RIDES THE GRAY (Grey) PLANET - variant titles: Assignment in Space with Rip Foster; and Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet

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RIP FOSTER RIDES THE GRAY (Grey) PLANET - variant titles: Assignment in Space with Rip Foster; and Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
Blake (John Blaine) (pen name used by Harold Leland Goodwin) Savage
Manufacturer: Whitman Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GVS910

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Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet
Blake Savage
Manufacturer: Whitman Publishing Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXBGXY

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Rip Foster rides the gray planet
Blake Savage
Manufacturer: Whitman
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007ET0LO

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Rip Foster Rides the Grey Planet
Blake Savage
Manufacturer: Golden Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M4P1FS

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Rop Foster in Ride The Gray Planet
Blake Savage
Manufacturer: New York golden Press 1969.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N2DAC0

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Welcome to Klail City, in Belken County, along the Mexico border in Texas' Rio Grande Valley. In the weeks leading up to the Democratic primary, Jehu Malacara chronicles the political rabble-rousing of Klail City's wealthiest citizens in letters to his cousin Rafe Buenrostro. Led by Arnold "Noddy" Perkins, the who's who of Belken County create a complex web of relationships. Wrangling bank loans, club memberships, and local politics, Perkins dominates the political and economic landscape of the community.

When Malacara turns up missing, and the writer, P. Galindo, begins interviewing the citizens, tales of deceit and betrayal float to the surface. From Jehu's knockout girlfriend Ollie to up-and-coming socialite Becky Escobar and even to old man Perkins himself, Hinojosa offers a feast of quirky characters and misdeeds.

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From The New York Times Book Review:

"Set in the early 1960s, the first half of the book is a bitter-comic story of banking, amorous and political lives various citizens of Klail City told in epistolary form by one Jehu Malacara... The rest of the book is a series of character sketches cum fictional interviews touching on the life and fate of Jehu... Although his [Hinojosa's] sharp eye and accurate ear capture a place, its people and time in a masterly way, his work goes far beyond regionalism. His is a writer for all readers, and Dear Rafe is a delight in any league."

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From the earliest colonial settlements to recent Cold War bunkers, the North American continent has been home to thousands of forts and fortress structures. Seacoast forts were the nation's primary means of strategic defense from the 1790s until World War II. Almost every seaport on both coasts had at least one fort to protect it at one time or another. Inland forts were built to defend against attacks by Native Americans, or to defend against the English, the French, or the Spanish. So many forts were built-most in the 1800s-that there are few places in the continental United States more than fifty miles from a fort location. Yet, despite their prominence and importance, there has never been-until now-a single volume devoted to American forts and homeland fortification defense. As in their previous and very successful books, experts J. E. and H. W. Kaufmann include never-before-published photographs, extraordinary drawings, cut-aways, and diagrams to illustrate Fortress America.

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Detailed fort histories.......2007-08-21

This book is for those who can tolerate technical reading. It is extremely detailed in describing the aspects of the different forts built in America from the 1600s' to modern times. At times, the book becomes difficult to follow as they jump from fort to fort in different regions. The book has excellent illustrations and photos of the forts, along with maps of where they were located over the years.

It doesn't describe the battles in detail, just overall descriptions and quick accounts. Good book to borrow from the library as it is an excellent reference book.

2004 Addendum on CD-ROM.......2006-09-04

Anyone know where I can obtain a copy of the 2004 Addendum on CD-ROM. It was listed here a week ago, but now it is gone. I checked eBay also, but could not find any listings for it.

Thanks.

Excellent Introductory work .......2006-02-13

This book is an excellent introduction into the world of American fortifications combining history with a light technical description of the fortifications and their development. This vast topic is reduced to a readable history showing the role the fortitications played in various periods of peace and war. The section on the American Revolution was one of my favorites, but the Civil War was also good. The text covers from the arrival of Europeans to the missile age with a new type of defense line made of a chain of radar stations. There are many finely drawn illustrations and photos of varying quality. This book is a great starting point for the non-fortifications "freak". As a member of the Coast Defense Study Group and CAMP I can only praise this work as a major contribution to the field since it so nicely puts everything together for beginner and expert.

Pulling the Long Story Together.......2005-08-29

I found this a fascinating book---the third in a series from these authors (the others deal with German World War II fortifications, and with modern European fortifications). Each takes the same format of effectively combining text, maps, plans, drawings,and photos to provide a picture of what was built, where, by whom, and why. This particular volume has the longest historical reach, ranging from the first Spanish forts in North America right up to current efforts. Here we get a good sense of everything from dusty 19th century frontier army encampments to cement coastal fortifications of the early 20th century. The authors make clear how fortification design changed and why, as well as the relation of forts to the historical concerns of the time. In all, very useful and insightful reading whether for the arm chair or touring. There is no better overall history.

Good, but something was missing.......2005-01-17

The book gives a decent review of the fortifications found in the U.S.and some in Canada but in some cases descriptions appear to be lacking. I found a CD from E-Bay auctions that has the same title: Fortress America: Addenda. THe publisher is listed as Merriam Press. It is an addenda of a few hundred pages that includes material left out of this book with many photos and illustrations plus more complete descriptions of events, people, etc. missing from the book that makes a great supplement to the book. I have not been able to find the CD on Amazon. With or without the addenda, it is a decent introudction the fortifications in America covering from the first English settlements through much of the Cold War era.

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In 1943, against utterly hopeless odds, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up to defy the Nazi horror machine that had set out to exterminate them. One of the leaders of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the uprisings, was Yitzhak Zuckerman, known by his underground pseudonym, Antek. Decades later, living in Israel, Antek dictated his memoirs. The Hebrew publication of Those Seven Years: 1939-1946 was a major event in the historiography of the Holocaust, and now Antek's memoirs are available in English.
Unlike Holocaust books that focus on the annihilation of European Jews, Antek's account is of the daily struggle to maintain human dignity under the most dreadful conditions. His passionate, involved testimony, which combines detail, authenticity, and gripping immediacy, has unique historical importance. The memoirs situate the ghetto and the resistance in the social and political context that preceded them, when prewar Zionist and Socialist youth movements were gradually forged into what became the first significant armed resistance against the Nazis in all of occupied Europe. Antek also describes the activities of the resistance after the destruction of the ghetto, when 20,000 Jews hid in "Aryan" Warsaw and then participated in illegal immigration to Palestine after the war.
The only extensive document by any Jewish resistance leader in Europe, Antek's book is central to understanding ghetto life and underground activities, Jewish resistance under the Nazis, and Polish-Jewish relations during and after the war. This extraordinary work is a fitting monument to the heroism of a people.

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Remarkably Informative, Detailed, and Not Anti-Polish.......2001-08-11

Yitzhak Zuckerman's (Cukierman's) fabulous book stands out in stark contrast to much of the superficial and distorted material that is so often used in Holocaust education. Then again, he was an eyewitness, so he should know. Unlike the anti-Polish slant of most Holocaust educational material, Zuckerman finds much good and bad in both nationalities, and repeatedly sternly warns those who would espouse hatred for Poles. He also has high praises for Zegota, the Polish underground organization that rescued thousands of Jews. Zuckerman is unusually frank and candid in telling the full story of what happened during this cruel time. For instance, Holocaust films invariably show the collaborationist Polish blue police, but not the Jewish ghetto police. Zuckerman, on the other hand, makes it obvious that it was the Jewish collaborationist police which inflicted more of the sufferings on the imprisoned Jews. Most Holocaust materials only show Poles who would betray Jews to the Nazis, while Zuckerman surprises the reader by pointing out that he was just as frequently accosted by Jewish blackmailers as Polish ones. Unlike the movie Schindler's List, which showed a Polish girl cheering as Jews were deported, Zuckerman recounts a diametrically-oppposite personal experience as an incognito Jew (with false documents expertly made by the Polish underground) on the Aryan side of Warsaw. As the Warsaw Ghetto was being burned by the Germans, very few Poles rejoiced, and these were primarily from the criminal element. Zuckerman found that many Poles cried as they saw the ghetto burn. Zuckerman also acknowledges that Jews were disproportionately involved in Communism, and this was a major factor which provoked Polish anti-Semitism, including the murder of surviving Jews who returned to reclaim their property after the war. Finally, Zuckerman spends considerable space detailing the many German crimes against Polish gentiles, something which Holocaust materials rarely do in depth, if at all. A superb book!

A Surplus of Memory.......2001-02-14

" I don't think there's any need to analyze the Uprising in military terms. This was a war of less than a thousand people against a mighty army, and no one doubted how it was likely to turn out. This isn't a subject for study in a military school. Not the weapons, not the operations, not the tactics. If there's a school to study the human spirit, there it should be a major subject. The really important things were inherent in the force shown by Jewish youths, after years of degradation, to rise up against their destroyers and determine what death they would choose: Treblinka or Uprising. I don't know if there's a standard to measure that." -Yitzhak Zuckerman From A Surplus of Memory A Surplus of Memory is Yitzhak Zuckerman's memoir of the events of 1939-1946, the period before, during and after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Zuckerman, or "Antek," his pseudonym in the Jewish underground, was a commander of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), which became the primary fighting force in the Jewish ghetto. After the Uprising, Antek led clandestine operations in Aryan Warsaw, then commanded a unit of Jewish fighters during the Polish Uprising. After the war, he helped Jews returning from exile in the Soviet Union from death camps, and those emerging from hiding after the Nazi occupation. Antek became a major figure in Brikha, the movement that smuggled Jews into Palestine after the war. He finally immigrated to Palestine in 1947 and co-founded Lohamei Ha-Getaot, the Ghetto Fighters' Kibbutz where he established a Holocaust museum. He was also a witness at the trial of Adolph Eichmann. Antek was a member of Zionist youth organizations in Poland before the war. At the age of twenty-four after the blitzkrieg stormed through Poland, he risked his life to travel into the Nazi occupied zone with his destination Warsaw, where he had been summoned to teach by Ha Shomer, a Zionist group. His mission was to help sustain the Jewish educational movement. After all was lost, Antek worked around the clock supporting the exodus of resistance survivors from the inferno of the ghetto to the relative safety of Aryan Warsaw where approximately 20,000 Jews were already in hiding. He arranged for transportation and shelter in temporary apartments for the survivors and devised subterranean escape routes though the sewers where he shepherded the survivors of the carnage. Many escaped via this route with Antek, but other tortured souls lost their way and died horrible deaths in the maze, eaten by rats or swept away by torrents. Others escaped through a tunnel to the other side. Antek continued his activities in the underground, in particular organizing a Jewish unit that fought in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war he stayed in Europe and continued to be an advocate for Jewish survivors. A tragic postwar chapter was his rescue mission to the town of Kielce where sixty Jews had been killed, victims of a pogrom. After the war, surviving Jews were met with hostility and violence when they attempted to return to their homes. Antek led a support contingent of Soviet soldiers and Polish government officials to Kielce and transported Jewish survivors to safety in Lodz. Antek also became a leader in the Brikha movement, smuggling Holocaust survivors into Palestine. During the remainder of his life in Israel, Antek told his stories of the Uprising to those on his kibbutz. He admitted that he suffered from a "surplus of memory," thus the book's title, the result of thirty-eight tapes and sixty hours of conversation. The burden of the events and comrades that lived and died with him in the Warsaw ghetto became more vivid with each passing year. He told friends," I feel in my soul that I'm a thousand years old, since every hour there counts for a year in me." . Antek's survival through the Holocaust and telling his Surplus of Memory were perhaps his greatest act of resistance.This is an essential piece of not only Holocaust history, but in the history of humanity's resistance to oppression. It's a tragic, yet inspiring book.

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Very Useful.......2000-04-05

I used this book in a group project in my Artificial Intelligence class. This book extended the concepts introduced by my professor and provided useful tools for natural language understanding! I highly recommend this book for anyone desiring to learn about the subject of natural language and artificial intelligence.

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