Book excerpt: The author. writes with evident knowledge of the sometimes difficult professional role of the mine geologist. This is a useful text for a mining geology semester or two, either at senior undergraduate level or as part of a post-graduate professional programme. - Australian Mineral Foundation; This is going to be a very useful book for geologists and other professionals in the mining and mineral extractive industries and a good text for students.everything in this book is relevant. very well illustrated. every mine should have a copy. - Mineralogical Magazine; The strength of this book is that it contains numerous interesting facts, explanations of methods and worked-out examples The reviews of mining methods are comprehensive this book is very useful in many respects. - Sedimentary Geology; The book is designed to be suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of mining geology and mining engineering, whilst being of use to those already following a career in the mining industry. - IMM Abstracts