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Energy minerals

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• Mines and mineral resources

• Fossil fuels

• Oil-shales
• Peat

• Minerals, Energy

• An Assessment of Oil Shale Technologies (1980), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume I: PDF files at Princeton
  • Volume II: PDF files at Princeton

• Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (2008), by Michael A. Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David Ortiz, Joel Darmstadter, and Brian Shannon (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Peat and Its Uses, As Fertilizer and Fuel (New York: O. Judd and Co., c1866), by Samuel W. Johnson
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future (Washington: World Bank, 2015), by Marianne Fay, Stephane Hallegatte, Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Julie Rozenberg, Ulf Narloch, and Tom Kerr (PDF with commentary at worldbank.org)

• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Environmental Issues of Synthetic Transportation Fuels From Coal (1982), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Politics of Fossil Fuel Subsidies and Their Reform (Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018), ed. by Jakob Skovgaard and Harro van Asselt (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Coal: Energy for the Future (1995), by National Research Council Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Coal Pyrolysis (Amsterdam et al.: Elsevier, 1982), by George R. Gavalas (PDF files at Caltech)
• Points on Coal and the Coal Business (Myerstown, PA: Feese and Uhrich, 1887), by Charles Miesse
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Assessment of Coal-Based Technologies for Electric Power Generation: Emission and Cost Estimates for Methanol and SNG Production and Combustion (final consultant report; Sacramento: California Energy Commission, 1982), by O. W. Hargrove (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal-Mines (based on the second edition, 1866), by William Stanley Jevons (HTML with commentary at eoearth.org)

• The Economic Geology of The Central Coalfield Of Scotland, Area IX: Carluke, Strathaven, And Larkhall, With Braidwood, Netherburn, Auchenheath, Blackwood, And Stonehouse (Edinburgh: Printed under authority of HMSO by Morrison and Gibb, 1921), by L. W. Hinxman, R. G. Carruthers, Murray Macgregor, and C. H. Dinham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Coal Fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Washington and Greene Counties: Fields of Coking Coal Located in Eastern Greene and Southeastern Washington Counties, Owned and Largely Controlled by J.V. Thompson (c1907), by John W. Boileau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Continuous Hydraulic Classification: Constitution of the Teeter Column Throughout Its Depth (Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1946), by Glen Dale Coe, I. L. Feld, M. F. Williams, and William Hawes Coghill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coal in Our Veins: A Personal Journey (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2012), by Erin Ann Thomas (PDF files with commentary at Project Muse)

• Coal-Pyrite Flotation in Concentrated Pulp: A Pilot Plant Study (Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations #8239, 1977), by Kenneth J. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Coal Exports and Port Development (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Coal: Energy for the Future (1995), by National Research Council Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• The Direct Use of Coal: Prospects and Problems of Production and Combustion (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels (c2008), by Frank A. Camm, James T. Bartis, and Charles J. Bushman (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• An Assessment of Development and Production Potential of Federal Coal Leases (1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Unconventional Fossil-Based Fuels: Economic and Environmental Trade-Offs (2008), by Michael A. Toman, Aimee E. Curtright, David Ortiz, Joel Darmstadter, and Brian Shannon (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Leonardite: A Lignite Byproduct (report of investigations 5611; Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1960), by Walter W. Fowkes and Clyde M. Frost (page images at HathiTrust)

• Audels Oil Burner Guide: Installing, Servicing, Repairing (New York: T. Audel and Co., c1947), by Frank Duncan Graham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bulletin (Geological Survey of Alabama) (partial serial archives)

• Handbook for the Alaskan Prospector (third printing, 1980), by Ernest N. Wolff, ed. by Richard H. Byrns (PDF with commentary at alaska.edu)

• Arctic Economics in the 21st Century: The Benefits and Costs of Cold (report of CSIS Europe program, 2013), by Heather A. Conley, contrib. by David L. Pumphrey, Terence M. Toland, and Mihaela David (PDF with commentary at csis.org)

• Travels in the Interior of Brazil, Principally Through the Northern Provinces, and the Gold and Diamond Districts, During the Years 1836-1841 (second edition; London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1849), by George Gardner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• County Report (partial serial archives)
• California Gold (1933 magazine reprint), by James S. Brown (PDF with commentary at LOC)
• California Copy (Washington: Washington College Press, c1928), by Geo. F. Weeks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Glimpses of Hungryland: or, California Sketches, by W. S. Walker (HTML at LOC)
• The Resources of California, by John S. Hittell (page images at MOA)
• The Sunset Land, by John Todd (HTML at LOC)
• California '46 to '88 (San Francisco: The Bancroft Co., 1888), by Jacob Wright Harlan
  • PDF with commentary at loc.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Gregson Memoirs, by Eliza Marshall Gregson and James Gregson (HTML at LOC)
• The Last of the Mill Creeks, and Early Life in Northern California, by Sim Moak (HTML at LOC)
• Life and Adventures of Col. L. A. Norton, by Lewis Adelbert Norton (HTML at LOC)
• Recollections of a '49er, by Edward Washington McIlhany (HTML at LOC)

• The Dominion of Canada (Toronto: L. Stebbins, 1869), by Henry Youle Hind (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Metal Mining and the Environment (Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute, c1999), by Travis Hudson, Frederick D. Fox, and Geoffrey S. Plumlee (PDF at agiweb.org)

• The Hidden Mine (originally published 1896), by Joseph A. Altsheler (HTML at woodwardworks.com)
• Murder in Space (Galaxy novel #23; New York: Galaxy Publishing Corp., 1954), by David V. Reed, illust. by Ed Emshwiller
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Lost Mine of the Mono: A Tale of the Sierra Nevada (New York: Cochrane Pub. Co., 1909), by Charles Herman Bruno Klette (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Soldiers of Fortune, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text)
• Soldiers of Fortune (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1897), by Richard Harding Davis, illust. by Charles Dana Gibson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; frontispiece page missing

• Bulletin (Geological Survey of Georgia) (partial serial archives)

• Tin Peaks and Silver Streams: A Memoir (1995), by Sheldon Wimpfen
  • HTML at archive.org
  • illustrated HTML at bureauofmines.com

• Report on the Mines Known in the Eastern Division of Hayti, and the Facilities of Working Them (London: Printed for Ridgway, Booth, and Wilson, 1825), by William Walton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Explorations and Adventures in Honduras: Comprising Sketches of Travel in the Gold Regions of Olancho, and a Review of the History and General Resources of Central America (New York: Harper and Bros., 1857), by William V. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.