Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book condition is very good. Soft cover. No dust jacket. 1st edition, published 1987. Text body clean and unmarked throughout the book. Ex-owner name on the first fly leaf page. Book boards clean. Book block clean. Spine intact. Over-all a great and neat 1st edition. The 1987 edition is designed as a beginner-friendly yet technically solid introduction to mining engineering. It includes: Prospecting, Exploration, Mine development & Exploitation. Mining Methods & Operations: Unit operations of mining, Surface mining methods, Underground mining methods & Novel and emerging methods (as of the 1980s). Additional Features Numerical examples and problem sets Case studies: Extensive references and bibliography and Both English and SI/metric units.