marine mineral resources

Introduces readers to the people, machines, work and environmental concerns involved in mining, visiting an underground mineral mine and steel mill, a surface coal mine, and an oil well and refinery.

In 1826 New Mexico, a mysterious stranger arrives at young Josefina's rancho, sparking her curiosity about the legendary gold and silver buried in the nearby hills and a weeping ghost rumored to haunt the countryside. Includes an informational section on this period in New Mexico's history.

A futuristic retelling of Snow White in which seventeen-year-old Essie, a master at repairing robots and drones on the frozen mining planet Thanda, is pulled into a war by handsome and mysterious Dane after his shuttle crash-lands near her home.

In an isolated, matriarchal society, Jena embraces her role as one of the few, honored girls who mine life-sustaining mica. But when she learns how far the Mothers will go to ensure their people's survival, she begins to question everything.

Discusses the last large, untapped source of mineral resources, the ocean.

Provides information on fossil fuels, what they are, where they are found, and why they are important to managing natural resources and includes a case study that examines the implications for the environment.

Examines the conditions faced by coal miners in Britain during the nineteenth century through the story of young John Elliot who, along with his father and five-year-old brother, survives a disaster at the Great Northern Coalfield in the 1840s.

Introduces readers to the people, machines, work and environmental concerns involved in mining, visiting an underground mineral mine and steel mill, a surface coal mine, and an oil well and refinery.

Explores minerals and metals; discussing how they form, where they occur, their effect on economies and survival, their role in the development of civilization, different types of resources, mining techniques, and their various uses.

In this fictionalized future of American civilization, the terminal decline of oil production and the fall of the central government has made life in the small town of Union Grove, New York, remote until a radical religious sect, the New Faith order, clashes with the locals, and Robert Earle, a former software executive turned carpenter, is sent off to recover the missing crew of a trading boat.