The ''Mining Encyclopedia'' ( uk, Гірнича енциклопедія) is a
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian ( uk, украї́нська мо́ва, translit=ukrainska mova, label=native name, ) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state langu ...
comprehensive set of
encyclopedia
An encyclopedia (American English) or encyclopædia (British English) is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge either general or special to a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles ...
s about the science and technology of
mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...
. The encyclopedias were compiled by more than 100 of the leading
earth scientists in Ukraine and overseas, headed by
Volodymyr Biletskyy.
The first installment of the project, the ''Explanatory Dictionary of Mining'' ( uk, Тлумачний гірничий словник) was published in 1998 by the
Donetsk National Technical University and is now available online.
The second phase of the project involved the publication of the 3-volume ''Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mining'' ( uk, Гірничий енциклопедичний словник) between 2001 and 2004. This set contains 12,700 encyclopedic articles.
The third stage involved the publication of the 3-volume ''Concise Mining Encyclopedia'' ( uk, Мала гірнича енциклопедія) between 2004 and 2013. This comprehensive set contains 17,350 entries,
with numerous illustrations. A valuable feature of the encyclopedia is that all entries are written simultaneously in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German languages.
These encyclopedias are used as textbooks at the
National Mining University of Ukraine
The Dnipro University of Technology ( uk, Національний технічний університет «Дніпровська політехніка»), abbreviated in Ukrainian as NTU DP ( uk, НТУ ДП) is located in Dnipro, the third ...
.
See also
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Geology of Ukraine The geology of Ukraine is the regional study of rocks, minerals, tectonics, natural resources and groundwater in the country. The oldest rocks in the region are part of the Ukrainian Shield and formed more than 2.5 billion years ago in the Archean e ...
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List of mines in Ukraine
The following list of mines in Ukraine is subsidiary to the lists of mines in Europe article and Lists of mines articles. This list contains working, defunct and future mines in the country and is organised by the primary mineral output(s) and p ...
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Science and technology in Ukraine
Notes
References
External links
''Explanatory Dictionary of Mining''online
online
''Concise Mining Encyclopaedia: Volume 1 A–K''online
''Concise Mining Encyclopaedia: Volume 2 Л-Р''online
''Concise Mining Encyclopaedia: Volume 3 С-Я''online
1998 non-fiction books
Ukrainian encyclopedias
Works about mining
Mining in Ukraine
20th-century encyclopedias
21st-century encyclopedias
Ukrainian-language encyclopedias
Ukrainian-language books
Specialized encyclopedias
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