Mineral Engineering Resource Guide

Databases || Reference Tools || Associations & Societies || Mineral Engineering Journals Mineral Engineering Links || Mineral Engineering Department

Databases

• Compendex (Engineering Index)
• Web of Science (search by subject or cited reference)
• CSA Materials Research Database
• GeoRef (via FirstSearch)
• Dissertation Abstracts Online (via FirstSearch)
• PapersFirst [conferences] (via FirstSearch)

Government Publications

• USGS Publications
• New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources

General (include full-text articles)

• Academic Search Premier
• Expanded Academic ASAP
• Wilson Select Plus

Reference Tools

Atlas of the textural patterns of ore minerals and metallogenic processes -
Ref QE 390 .A88 1995

Encyclopedia of Minerals - Ref QE 355 .R6 1990

Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics - Ref Q175.35.E53 2005 (4 volumes)

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Exploration Geophysics - Ref TN 269 .S524 1991

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology - Ref TP 9 E685 1992 (27 volumes)

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology - Ref Q121 .M3 2002 (20 volumes)

American Mines Handbook - Ref HD 9506 .U6 A74 1995

ASM handbook (aka Metals Handbook) - Ref TA459 .M43

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics - Ref QD 65 H3

Minerals of New Mexico - Ref TN 24 .N6 N6 1996

Minerals Yearbook (online) http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/myb.html

Minerals Yearbook - Gov Docs #I 19.165

Mining and Mineral Industries : an Information Sourcebook - Ref HD9506 .A2 M5 1988

Mining Annual Review - Ref HD9506 .U6 M52

SME Mining Reference Handbook - Ref TN151 .S64 2002

Surface Mining - Ref TN 291 .S78 1990

• Mineralogical abstracts
• Metals Abstracts

Associations & Societies

• American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers http://www.aimeny.org/
• International Society of Explosives Engineers http://www.isee.org/
• Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) http://www.msha.gov
• Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) http://www.tms.org/
• National Mining Association http://www.nma.org/
• Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME) http://www.smenet.org/

Mineral Engineering Links

• InfoMine http://www.infomine.com/
  Information global mining community of companies, suppliers, educators, financiers and all organizations and individuals with an interest in mining or mineral exploration

• Mining Educators http://www.uidaho.edu/mining_school/
  A global index including links to the web sites of more than 50 mining departments

• MiningLife http://www.mininglife.com/
  Provides links to mining-related sites organized by topic

• New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/
  Includes publications, maps, data and educational resources.

• Patent Searching http://www.nmt.edu/~nmtlib/INFO/ORef/patents.html
  Links to patent databases and web tutorials

• U.S. Geological Survey http://www.usgs.gov/
  Includes minerals publications, data, statistics, etc.