Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet

کتاب «Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines That Wired America and Scarred the Planet» در حوزه «زمین‌شناسی، اکتشاف و معدن‌کاری مس» به «معدن‌کاری روباز مس» می‌پردازد. مباحث اصلی آن شامل هدف‌گذاری اکتشاف و مدل کانسار است. برای تفسیر کانسار، هدف‌گذاری اکتشاف، ارزیابی ذخیره و تصمیم‌گیری زمین‌شناسی کاربرد دارد.

Mass destruction mining soon spread around the nation and the globe, providing raw materials essential to the mass production and mass consumption that increasingly defined the emerging 'American way of life'. A new culture of mass destruction emerged that promised nearly infinite supplies not only of copper, but also of coal, timber, fish, and other natural resources. Yet today, as the world's population races toward American levels of resource consumption, truly viable alternatives to the technology of mass destruction have not yet emerged.