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Space Resources is an interdisciplinary program at Mines that explores the science, engineering, economic, and policy related to the responsible exploration, extraction and use of resources in the Solar System.
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Core Electronic Resources
These are likely to be the best online sources in which to start your research.
- OneMine This link opens in a new window
OneMine includes a broad selection of the full-texts of articles and peer-reviewed journals to support undergraduate or advanced studies in mining and minerals, and for organizations engaged in research and development. - GeoRef (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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The GeoRef database provides access to geoscience literature from around the world. It contains geoscience maps, journal articles, non-journal literature, and references to all publications of the U.S. Geological Survey. Master's theses and doctoral dissertations from US and Canadian universities are also covered. Coverage for North American resources starts in 1669, whereas worldwide coverage starts in 1933. - EMI Rock Mechanics Database This link opens in a new window
The EMI Rock Mechanics Database plot tool was designed to facilitate the
retrieval, analysis, and inference of specific rock mechanics data. This tool is designed to allow the user to plot two of these test results against each other for a given rock characteristic, and from there build a statistical model describing the relationship. - Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
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Engineering Village is the information discovery platform to search across both Compendex and INSPEC databases. The thesauri on Engineering Village comprise the controlled vocabulary used to index articles in the Compendex, Inspec, GeoRef, GEOBASE and EnCompass databases. - Knovel This link opens in a new window
Knovel provides general reference and best practice insights, process, and design applications, material and substance properties data, and equations for specific engineering disciplines. Provides interactive content including equations, graphs, and tables. It has technical reference resources from ebooks and standards as well as publishers including AIChE/CCPS, NACE, and more.
