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Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future Ed Conway 9780753559178
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.46THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as a Book of the Year by FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMANA BBC RADIO 4 Book... -
The Metal Detecting Bible: Helpful Tips, Expert Tricks and Insider Secrets for Finding Hidden Treasures by Brandon Neice
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612435275Author Brandon NeiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint -
Slate Mining in the Lake District: An Illustrated History by Alastair Cameron
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The remnants of slate mining and quarrying form as much a part of the Lakeland historic landscape as the stone walls, heathered moorlands and Lakeland farms do. A significant number of local families... -
The Last Women of the Durham Coalfield: Hannah's Granddaughter by Margaret Hedley 9781803994192
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.49'As this book shows, the women of the Durham coalfield played an equal role in shaping daily life and trajectories of history in the region, just as women today are building their own futures in... -
Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson 9780861546190
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and... -
A Guide to Metal Detecting by Graeme Rushton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.47The aim of this book is to provide detailed information, practical help, handy hints and tips in regards to all aspects of Metal Detecting. By offering advice and guidance this book aims to make the... -
The Coalminers of Durham by Norman Emery 9780752450421
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.96For as long as anyone can remember, coal has been the lifeblood of the communities of County Durham. In its heyday, in 1913, the region boasted 304 pits employing 165,246 people. Coalmining in Durham... -
Coal Mine Operations Manual: History * Engineering * Technology * Community by Chris McNab 9781785217142
Booksplease Price: £10.04Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Pit to Power Station: A Personal Recollection of Coal Trains in the 1990s by Chris Booth 9781781558669
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Focusing on the 1990s as a decade of change, all of the collieries and most of the coal fired power stations of that era have now gone. During that decade I made a point of photographing the... -
The Miners' Strike 1984-5: Class Against Class by Sean Matgamna 9781909639263
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909639263Author Sean MatgamnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint -
Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.01'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new world and as Sanderson makes clear, we are capable of making it a better one than the dirty and... -
102 Things to Do with a Hole in the Ground Peter Whitbread-Abrutat 9780956221353
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956221353Author Peter Whitbread-AbrutatFormat HardbackPage Count 264 -
Coal: A Human History by Barbara Freese
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history, perfect for fans of Mark Kurlansky's Salt and Jeremy Paxman's Black Gold. 'A passionate plea for a... -
Slate Quarrying in Wales: A Gazetteer by Des Marshall 9781845245382
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845245382Author Des MarshallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint < -
Yorkshire People & Coal Peter Tuffrey 9781445605166
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.51Yorkshire People & Coal is the third title in Peter Tuffrey's Yorkshire People series, featuring photographs from the Yorkshire Post's picture archives. This volume makes use of the wealth of... -
Lanarkshire's Mining Legacy Guthrie Hutton 9781840336061
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £15.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840336061Author Guthrie HuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
Middlesbrough's Iron and Steel Industry by Dr. Joan Heggie
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Middlesbrough and Teesside are renowned for their association with the iron and steel industry. Iron has been produced there on an industrial scale since the 1850s, when Cleveland ironstone was... -
The Last Years of Coal Mining in Yorkshire by Steve Grudgings 9780992855451
Booksplease Price: £26.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992855451Author Steve GrudgingsFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint -
Staffordshire Coal Mines by Helen Harwood
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Which colliery was known as the 'Fair Lady'? And where was the deepest mine shaft? These are just two of the many questions answered in this history of the Staffordshire coal mines and the collieries... -
Ore Mining in the Lake District by Alastair Cameron
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The Lake District mountains are full of mineral veins. Many have been discovered and worked over the past 1,000 years. Many still remain to be discovered. The last working metal-ore mine in the Lake... -
Wonderland by Beth Steel 9780571321377
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95The Midlands, 1984. Two young lads are about to learn what it is to be a miner, to be accepted into the close camaraderie and initiated into a unique workplace where sweat, toil, collapsing roofs and... -
MGR Coal Trains by Mike Rhodes
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68As electricity became more widely used to power and light Britain's towns and cities a number of municipal boroughs built their own power stations. In the early years these were inevitably fed by... -
The Mining Valuation Handbook 4e: Mining and Energy Valuation for Investors and Management Victor Rudenno 9780730381457
RRP: £60.95Booksplease Price: £48.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780730381457Author Victor RudennoFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint -
The Whitehaven Colliery Through Time by Alan W. Routledge
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Coal was the very bedrock on which the town of Whitehaven was built, the trade in coal with Dublin starting after the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Shipping ever increasing quantities of coal to... -
An Insider's Guide to the Mining Sector: An in-depth study of gold and mining shares by Michael Coulson
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £27.81The prospect of instant riches gives the mining sector an obvious glamour. And when the mining sector begins to run it can be an awesome sight and the excitement generated can be every bit as... -
The Rossendale Coalfield by Jack Nadin 9780752461120
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Coal mining is the second oldest industry in Britain after agriculture. As big coalmines developed to cope with the output to feed the Industrial Revolution, many small-scale moorland pits -... -
Honister Slate Mine by Alastair Cameron 9781445671994
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Utilising a wealth of rare and unpublished images from official archives, authors Alastair Cameron and Liz Withey tell the story behind the development of the Honister Slate Mine in the Lake District... -
Gold Fever: One Man's Adventures on the Trail of the Modern Gold Rush by Steve Boggan
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Have you ever imagined giving up your day job and heading for the hills in search of gold? Journalist Steve Boggan decided to do just that when the price of the precious metal scaled dizzying heights... -
Rail Freight Since 1968: Coal by Paul Shannon
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781857942637Author Paul ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint < -
Lime Kilns: History and Heritage by Dr David Johnson 9781445680590
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68For centuries lime was an essential ingredient in many aspects of life and work - such as farming, building and manufacturing - and the kilns in which lime was produced were a familiar sight across... -
Doncaster's Collieries by Peter Tuffrey
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54Born in Doncaster in the 1950s, Peter Tuffrey grew up with the collieries around him: Yorkshire Main at Edlington, Denaby, Cadeby, Rossington and Askern. Although it might have seemed that things... -
Echoes of the North East Miners: Some last traces of the collieries and tributes to the pitmen by Ken Smith
Booksplease Price: £14.73The miners of the North-East, working in the most dangerous of conditions, supplied the coal which fuelled the engines of the Industrial Revolution and provided heating and lighting to millions of... -
Coal Mines of Buxton by Alan Roberts 9780907758105
Booksplease Price: £10.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907758105Author Alan RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint < -
How To Smelt Your Gold & Silver by Jr Hank Chapman 9781614740971
Booksplease Price: £36.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614740971Author Hank Chapman, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint
The Slate Industry by Anthony Coulls
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61Slate from British quarries roofed the world. For a period in the nineteenth century, ships exported thousands of tons of roofing slate from the UK to an international market. The development of...
Quarrying in Cumbria by Dr David Johnson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68The exploiting of stone in Cumbria dates back to the Neolithic period when volcanic rock from the high Lakeland fells was worked to make hand axes. In Roman times sandstone was extensively quarried...
Blue Power: Cobalt, China and the Scramble to Dominate the New Energy Revolution Nicolas Niarchos 9780008553951
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.25'A tale of rapacious colonialism, Cold War spy games, dazzling technical innovation, big business rivalry, big power geopolitics [...] Niarchos has produced an unflinching, landmark...
Irish Sea Lime Trade Dr David Johnson 9781398122154
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Quarrying of limestone and converting it to quicklime was a major vernacular industry around the Irish Sea coasts for many centuries, and it is an aspect of these islands' industrial legacy that has...
Antique Mining Equipment and Collectibles Ron Bommarito 9780764350894
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £21.34Mining's dramatic and dangerous nature is reflected in the hundreds of specialized tools and artifacts shown in over 500 color photographs and discussed in this revised and expanded second edition...
Curse of Gold: Jack Mould and the Curse of Gold by Elizabeth Hawkins 9780888392817
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £13.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888392817Author Elizabeth HawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint