Nuevas Leyes de Las Minas de Espana: 1625 Edicion de Juan de Onate (with Introduction in English)

Excerpt from the Introduction: This book was published to commemorate the IV International Mining History Congress at the Facultad de Minas, Universidad de Guanajuato, November 1998. It provides for the first time in modern Spanish the 1584 Mining Laws of Spain in their original format... The 1625 reprinting of the 1584 laws and ordinances for mines was written under the direction of Juan de Onate who was one of the earliest writers on metallurgy and mining in the New World. He was the first person to write on these subjects who lived in what today is the United States.

Plants for Western Land Reclamation, 1994 Edition

This handbook can assist people involved in the revegetation aspect of disturbed land reclamation. It contains information regarding vegetative characteristics that describe grass, forb, shrub and trees.