Metallurgy and M Guide - Resources and Review

Topics in traditional and innovative areas in minerals, metals and materials.
 
International daily business news service covering the metals and recycling industries, with up
to-date prices of 1,700 industrial materials. Covers metals markets from mining to production, distribution to manufacturing, recycling to reuse.
 
Research group focusing on metals in antiquity, from biochemical and geochemical studies of archaeological materials to theoretical considerations of prehistoric and early historic metal making and use. Offers information on research projects, publications and related links.
 
Book about the history of copper mining, the development of metal
working processes and the uses of copper through the past six thousand years. Covers information about the raw material, and the use of copper in Ancient Greece and Rome, the industrial age, and in electrical engineering.
 
Links to numerous annotated and evaluated online resources relevant to materials engineering.
 
Two major bibliographic databases for engineering, supplied and owned by Engineering Information Inc. Ei Compendex is a vast interdisciplinary engineering database, with summaries of journal articles and conference proceedings and technical reports in areas such as civil and structural engineering, computer and electrical engineering, energy technology, materials science and metallurgy, polymers and food technology.
 
Links to numerous annotated and evaluated online resources relevant to metals, metallurgy and corrosion.
 
Society for the exchange of information and research in historical metallurgy, which covers all aspects of the history of metals and associated materials, production and use, technology and economics, from prehistory to the present. Offers information on publications, journal contents, events and a bibliography.
 
Internet reference point for casting buyers, foundries, foundry consumable and machinery suppliers, with news, enquiries, exhibitions, conferences, a discussion forum, trade associations, suppliers and recruitment opportunities.
 
Group concerned with the investigation of all aspects of the metallurgical process, from smelting to metal finishing, and from the first use of alloys in the 5th and 4th millennia BC to the Industrial Revolution. Offers information on research, projects, publications, databases, conferences and a bibliography.
 
Book about the history of copper mining, the development of metal
working processes and the uses of copper through the past six thousand years. Covers information about the raw material, and the use of copper in Ancient Greece and Rome, the industrial age, and in electrical engineering.
 
Book chapter on the importance of copper in the Middle Ages, which discusses monumental brass, medieval bell
founders, brass wire, the pin trade, weather vanes and enamelling.
 
Society for the exchange of information and research in historical metallurgy, which covers all aspects of the history of metals and associated materials, production and use, technology and economics, from prehistory to the present. Offers information on publications, journal contents, events and a bibliography.
 
Organisation for members involved in materials science and engineering. Includes information about publications such as JOM, covering subjects like high temperature materials, microstructural and mechanical properties, radiation effects and corrosion, issues in alloy stability and design, fatigue in structural materials, and simulation of metal
forming processes.
 
An index of European organometallic chemists and their fields of research arranged by country.
 
A professional body for engineers in the minerals industry, formed by merger of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and the Institution of Mining Engineers on 31st July 1998. The IMM aims to advance the science and practice of operations within the minerals industry and to acquire, preserve and communicate knowledge of the industry. Offers details of the journals International Mining and Minerals, Transactions, and IMM Abstracts.
 
Provides technical studies of new processes at every stage of steelmaking from to steelmakers throughout South and East Asia.
 
Society which aims to increase understanding and knowledge of behavior and properties of iron and steel, the manufacturing practices for extracting, refining, producing and fabricating; and the development of new or improved metals.
 
Society which aims to advance the worldwide mining and minerals community through information exchange and professional development. It publishes Mining Engineering Magazine and the Minerals and Metallurgical Processing Journal.
 
Reports from a project to excavate a tin smelting site that utilised simple technology. Describes the geographic and archaeological setting, surveys and excavation.
 
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