Richard L. Bullock – författare

Underground Mining Methods presents the latest principles and techniques in use today. Reflecting the international and diverse nature of the industry, a series of mining case studies is presented covering the commodity range from iron ore to diamonds extracted by operations located in all corners of the world. Industry experts have contributed 77 chapters.This book is certain to become a standard for every practicing mining engineer and student alike. Sections include: General Mine Design Considerations, Room-and-Pillar Mining of Hard Rock/Soft Rock, Longwall Mining of Hard Rock, Shrinkage Stoping, Sublevel Stoping, Cut-and-Fill Mining, Sublevel Caving, Panel Caving, Foundations for Design, and Underground Mining Looks to the Future.

Everything” sums up what must be considered for a properly documented property evaluation.Less than 30% of the projects that are developed in the minerals industry yield the return on investment that was projected from the project feasibility studies. The tools described in this handbook will greatly improve the probability of meeting your projections and minimizing project execution capital cost blowout that has become so prevalent in this industry in recent years.Mineral Property Evaluation provides guidelines to follow in performing mineral property feasibility and evaluation studies and due diligence, and in preparing proper documents for bankable presentations. It highlights the need for a consistent, systematic methodology in performing evaluation and feasibility work.The objective of a feasibility and evaluation study should be to assess the value of the undeveloped or developed mineral property and to convey these findings to the company that is considering applying technical and physical changes to bring the property into production of a mineral product. The analysis needs to determine the net present worth returned to the company for investing in these changes and to reach that decision point as early as possible and with the least amount of money spent on the evaluation study.All resources are not reserves, nor are all minerals an ore. The successful conclusion of any property evaluation depends on the development, work, and conclusions of the project team.The handbook has a diverse audience:Professionals in the minerals industry that perform mineral property evaluations.Companies that have mineral properties and perform mineral property feasibility studies and evaluations or are buying properties based on property evaluation.Financial institutions, both domestic and overseas, that finance or raise capital for the minerals industry.Consulting firms and architectural and engineering contractors that utilize mineral property feasibility studies and need standards to follow.And probably the most important, the mining and geological engineering students and geology and economic geology students that need to learn the standards that they should follow throughout their careers.

From Hard Knocks to Hard Rocks: A Journey in My Shoes is my story of how a poor kid from the Ozarks, who was ill equipped, educationally or financially, to attended Missouri School of Mines (MSM) and yet became a mining engineer. A career which got me out of the Ozarks and took me to many countries. This journey will tell of many funny anecdotal stories and covers our lives during the Great Depression; life on an Ozark hill farm, where ever thing we tried, failed; the home front during WWII; the returning of thousands of battle-hardened veterans to blend onto college campuses with naive kids just out of high school and the stories they generated; my early experiences in the underground mines of Washington, Idaho and Colorado. Then being drafted in the army infantry but ending up in the Corp of Engineers (COE) during the Korean War and how that quirk of events ended up with the COE sponsoring my returning to MSM to get an MS degree in mining engineering. This led to being hired by St. Joseph Lead Co. for their new mining research department. I was involved in some very successful research developments in mining techniques, which found world-wide interest and allowed me to succeed, not only within St. Joe, but also with a world-wide reputation. During my 22 years with St. Joe, I was not only successful in rising through their ranks but was also involved with their building a modern town and three mining-milling complexes in the wilderness of the Clark National Forest of the Missouri Ozarks, at a time just before the eco-activists were stopping all mining's progress. Yet, the overall area has not been harmed one bit in 50-plus years. I think that you will find that traveling with me (and my Guardian Angel) through my career as a mining engineer will be interesting and at times, even exciting (if not downright scary). I'll take you to many places in the United States, as well as many other countries. To name a couple of adventures: there was the snow avalanche while we were perched on the side of Battle Mountain, Colorado, and the hike across Death Valley one August night. These are just two of the places and stories that you may find interesting. Because the story covers 83 years of my life, I have divided it into two books: Book One and Book Two. Book One covers the 40 years in which I mostly resided in my home state of Missouri, but did some travel in the United States, Peru, Chile, UK, Germany and Mexico. Book Two covers the last 43 years, in which most of my extensive travels to at least 15 other countries and took me to many exotic places from the jungles of the Amazon in Peru, to a mine near the North Pole and a few very harrowing experiences where I was afraid for my survival. I hope that you will travel with me, since I know that you will find the trip most interesting. In summary, I have traveled in more than 30 countries; some of them extensively, venturing to some very remote regions. My work has taken me to all 50 states in the U.S. and all 10 provinces of Canada, most of the Australian provinces, much of Mexico, extensively in South America, many countries in Europe and extensively in China. This travel has given me a broad perspective of life as you find it in many diverse cultures and made me realize the blessing of being born to a Christian family, during the great depression and in America. I would hope that this background would be something that I could build on in writing stories about people and the cultures of where they live, which I believe you will find interesting. .