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Mining and Metallurgical Engineering

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 

Define your topic:

  1. Kirk-Othmer encyclopedia of chemical technology
  2. Ullmann's encyclopedia of industrial chemistry
Handbooks: 

Get an overview of your topic:

  1. ASM handbook (online/print)
  2. SME mining engineering handbook (online)
  3. SME mineral processing handbook (print)
  4. Register of Australian mining (online/print)
  5. Australian coal year book (print)
  6. Australian general mining year book (print)
  7. Mining chemicals handbook (print)
  8. The mining valuation handbook : mining and energy valuation for investors and management (online/print)
  9. Knovel database (online handbooks)
Dictionaries: 

Define concepts:

  1. Rock blasting terms and symbols : a dictionary of symbols and terminology in rock blasting and related areas like drilling, mining, and rock mechanics
  2. Dictionary of mining, mineral, and related terms / compiled and edited by the staff of the U.S. Bureau of Mines.


Thesauri:

Get synonyms for your keywords:

  1. Engineering Village Thesaurus
  2. IEEE Thesaurus
  3. Google keyword tool


E-books:

  1. ENGnetBASE - online engineering handbooks published by CRC Press
  2. Knovel - online reference library for engineering. Access equations, data, drawings, etc. that are found in engineering handbooks and manuals; interactive tools available for some books
  3. Springer ebook collection - the Springer Ebook Collection contains books in the following subject areas : Architecture and Design; Behavioral Science; Business and Economics; Earth and Environmental Science; Engineering; Humanities, Social Sciences & Law.


Browse the shelves:

  • TN275 - 325 Practical Mining Operations, Safety measures, Mine drainage/ ventilation/ sanitation
  • TN400 - 580 Ore Deposits/ Mining of Particular Metals
  • TN600 - 799 Metallurgy
  • TN799.5 - 948 Nonmetallic Minerals
  • TN950 - 997 Building Stones/ Ornamental Stones

Contact Librarians (Mining engineering):

Gisela Possin

g.possin@library.uq.edu.au

3365 6852

Research Information Service

Miranda Mariette

m.mariette@library.uq.edu.au

3346 3502

Teaching and Learning Service

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Summon (Library homepage) provides access to the UQ Library collection of print and online books, journals, theses, newspapers, conference proceedings and more.

Start with the following key databases for this subject area:

Browse all databases for Mining and Metallurgy

Journals

Journals: 
Example journals.

Research database index the contents of these journals.

The international journal of mineral resources engineering

International journal of mining and mineral engineering

Minerals engineering

Mining & minerals

Mining science and technology

The Alerting Services, RSS Feeds & Email How-to guide provides help with setting up table of contents alerts for journals.

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources: 

Mining

  1. Register of Australian mining online - Fully indexed, it includes full geology details plus a financial and editorial summary of all Australian Stock Exchange-listed mining companies and more than 300 private mining companies.
  2. Science.gov - searches over 55 databases and over 2100 selected websites from 13 US federal agencies; some full text available

Minerals Information

  1. USGS Commodity Statistics and Information - Statistics and information on the worldwide supply of, demand for, and flow of minerals and materials
  2. Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences - (ABARES) Data - resources and energy sectors

Chemical Information

  1. ChemSpider - Free chemical structure database providing fast text and structure search access to over 26 million structures from hundreds of data sources.

Statistics and market reports

  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics - The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) web site provides access to the full range of ABS statistical and reference information
  2. IBISWorld - Detailed analyses of Australian industries, covering major players, industry performance and outlook, market characteristics, industry participants and recent news articles.
  3. Business source complete - BSC is a scholarly business database, providing bibliographic and full text content. Industry and company reports are also covered.
  4. OECD iLibrary - Papers and Statistics and the gateway to OECD's analysis and data

Patents

For further information see our Patents How-to guide

Theses

Search for Australian and international theses.

Institutional repositories

Standards

Standards: 

Standards are official publications used in industry and trade to describe specifications and procedures. Standards provide rules and recommendations for; quality, safety, performance and construction, codes of practice, methods of testing, symbols and terminology.

Use the following resources to search for standards:

SAI Global on-line premium (formerly Australian standards online)

Annual book of ASTM standards
Access standards in print from the American Society for Testing and Materials; use the ASTM International website (see below) as an index tool for the Annual book of standards

ASTM international standards worldwide
This site provides information about ASTM and its membership and projects as well as indexing ASTM and other standards online

Tables, Formulas

Tables, Formulas: 

  • International tables for crystallography (IUCR)
  • Knovel - online reference library for engineering. Access equations, data, drawings, etc. that are found in engineering handbooks and manuals
  • SpringerMaterials - based on the Landolt-Börnstein New Series, a data collection covering all areas of physical sciences and engineering


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