Author: Michael MacDonald
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781475185270
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"About the prominent role silver will play in the return to metal as money. This is not a book about some predictive financial philosophy, but rather a frank, no-excuses glimpse at the current state of things, and an honest, candid, look at logical outcomes."--Amazon book description.
Mercury from Gold and Silver Mining
Author: Luiz D.de Lacerda
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642587933
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Due to its inherent characteristics, mercury contamination from gold mining is a major environmental problem compared to past mercury contamination from industrial point sources. The worsening of social-economical conditions and increasing gold prices in the late 1970s resulted in a new rush for gold by individual entrepreneurs for whom Hg amalgamation is a cheap and easily carried out operation. Even after the present-day mining areas are exhausted, the mercury left behind will remain part of the biochemical cycle of the tropical forest. This book reviews the current information on mercury from gold mining, its cycling in the environment and its long-term ecotoxicological impact. The book is illustrated with numerous diagrams and photographs.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642587933
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Due to its inherent characteristics, mercury contamination from gold mining is a major environmental problem compared to past mercury contamination from industrial point sources. The worsening of social-economical conditions and increasing gold prices in the late 1970s resulted in a new rush for gold by individual entrepreneurs for whom Hg amalgamation is a cheap and easily carried out operation. Even after the present-day mining areas are exhausted, the mercury left behind will remain part of the biochemical cycle of the tropical forest. This book reviews the current information on mercury from gold mining, its cycling in the environment and its long-term ecotoxicological impact. The book is illustrated with numerous diagrams and photographs.
The Silver Pigs
Author: Lindsey Davis
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429956933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Silver Pigs is Lindsey Davis' classic novel, which introduced readers around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently inconvenient drive for justice. When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman "informer" who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her—a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of stolen Imperial ingots, in fact. Matters just get more complicated when Falco meets Helena Justina, a Senator's daughter who is connected to the very same traitors he has sworn to expose. Soon Falco finds himself swept from the perilous back alleys of Ancient Rome to the silver mines of distant Britain—and up against a cabal of traitors with blood on their hands and no compunction whatsoever to do away with a snooping plebe like Falco....
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429956933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Silver Pigs is Lindsey Davis' classic novel, which introduced readers around the world to Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, a tendency for bad luck, and a frequently inconvenient drive for justice. When Marcus Didius Falco, a Roman "informer" who has a nose for trouble that's sharper than most, encounters Sosia Camillina in the Forum, he senses immediately all is not right with the pretty girl. She confesses to him that she is fleeing for her life, and Falco makes the rash decision to rescue her—a decision he will come to regret. For Sosia bears a heavy burden: as heavy as a pile of stolen Imperial ingots, in fact. Matters just get more complicated when Falco meets Helena Justina, a Senator's daughter who is connected to the very same traitors he has sworn to expose. Soon Falco finds himself swept from the perilous back alleys of Ancient Rome to the silver mines of distant Britain—and up against a cabal of traitors with blood on their hands and no compunction whatsoever to do away with a snooping plebe like Falco....
The Silver Vampire- Rhamphorhynchus
Author: Carolyn Cami
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514432595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
An accident in an illegal science lab in Africa leads to the spread of an infection whereby humans and animals transform into birdlike and other animal-like creatures with glowing blue blood when bitten by those infected before them. The CIA enlists the help of the Silver Vampire, who, along with an entire sheriffs team, come to Africa to start a battle against the infected animals and humans. Even dangerous was that if the Silver Vampire got infected, the other vampires would die too. No one in the African government or the CIA know about the agents secretly working in Africa. Sarah, the vampire CIA agent, must work underground with all Americans in Africa until the infection is contained.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514432595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
An accident in an illegal science lab in Africa leads to the spread of an infection whereby humans and animals transform into birdlike and other animal-like creatures with glowing blue blood when bitten by those infected before them. The CIA enlists the help of the Silver Vampire, who, along with an entire sheriffs team, come to Africa to start a battle against the infected animals and humans. Even dangerous was that if the Silver Vampire got infected, the other vampires would die too. No one in the African government or the CIA know about the agents secretly working in Africa. Sarah, the vampire CIA agent, must work underground with all Americans in Africa until the infection is contained.
Chasing the Silver Bullet
Author: Kenneth P. Werrell
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1935623567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Airpower is credited with success in Afghanistan, Desert Storm, and Serbia, but in Vietnam all of America's aerial might could not defeat a vastly outnumbered Third World force on bicycles. With a panoramic sweep and shocking frankness unrivaled in the current literature, Ken Werrell, one of today's most experienced airpower historians, reveals the true extent of the technological evolution that fueled this transformation. Chasing the Silver Bullet traces in unprecedented detail the evolution of the Air Force's entire inventory since the Korean War, from the ill-fated F-105 fighter-bomber to the F-117 stealth fighter, but one of its chief contributions is its analysis of the strategies and doctrine that fashioned the hardware. Werrell's exhaustive research and sage analysis challenge the Air Force's mantra that precision-guided munitions delivered from long-range, stealthy aircraft are America's true war heroes. Desert Storm gave us the wrong impression about airpower technology and Werrell corrects that mistake with this landmark study, rendering superficial all other books about Desert Storm and current capabilities. Objective, even-handed, and unimpressed with the bells and whistles of new technology, Werrell understands how airpower works.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1935623567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Airpower is credited with success in Afghanistan, Desert Storm, and Serbia, but in Vietnam all of America's aerial might could not defeat a vastly outnumbered Third World force on bicycles. With a panoramic sweep and shocking frankness unrivaled in the current literature, Ken Werrell, one of today's most experienced airpower historians, reveals the true extent of the technological evolution that fueled this transformation. Chasing the Silver Bullet traces in unprecedented detail the evolution of the Air Force's entire inventory since the Korean War, from the ill-fated F-105 fighter-bomber to the F-117 stealth fighter, but one of its chief contributions is its analysis of the strategies and doctrine that fashioned the hardware. Werrell's exhaustive research and sage analysis challenge the Air Force's mantra that precision-guided munitions delivered from long-range, stealthy aircraft are America's true war heroes. Desert Storm gave us the wrong impression about airpower technology and Werrell corrects that mistake with this landmark study, rendering superficial all other books about Desert Storm and current capabilities. Objective, even-handed, and unimpressed with the bells and whistles of new technology, Werrell understands how airpower works.