Reddit mentions: The best mining books

Ok, in addition to the paper/booklet posted earlier from acedemia.edu about the lorica segmentata here are some other resources discussing armor and some on metal work techniques. Much of what is available is medieval period but many of the skills and techniques are similar.
On Divers Arts by Theophilus is a treatise on painting, glass making, and metalwork from roughly 1122ad. ISBN:978-0486237848

De Re Metalica by Georgius Agricola is a scientific book on mining and metallurgy from around 1556ad. ISBN: 978-0486600062

The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio is a treatise on metallurgy and alchemy/chemistry from 1540ad. ISBN:978-0486261348

Techniques of Medieval Armor Reproduction: The Fourteenth Century is an awesome book covering various metalwork techniques as applied to making 14th century armor. ISBN: 978-1581605365 He talks about tools you will need and some modifications to make to them for ease of use. He even gives you some ideas on finding good sources for drawing inspiration from for your armor patterns. If you are starting with making armor and don't have anyone nearby to help you learn this is a good guide to buy.

Best of the Hammer is a black and white series of booklets that have great info on medieval metalwork from chainmail to bladesmithing. ISBN:978-0943228044

Roman Body Armor, by Hilary & John Travis is a good re-examining of the data on Roman armor up until this point. ISBN: 978-1445608037

I think your probably fine then! Also since your not too far from Geonics HQ they might have a sales guy come and train you on it for a few hours if your buying one (man they are $$$!). Again, just brush up on it before you go charge. Nothing makes me more deer in the headlights than putting a figure in a report that I dont understand. Saying the machine spit it out is not a valid answer!
 


This is the best book IMO for readability and not making you derive curl-curl equations or being bogged down by stuff no one cares about: here. I think 20 bucks used is well worth it.

This. It's both expensive and looks boring, but I'm saving up to get it because of reasons.

Or this, unless the giver is both insanely generous and a massive Whovian.

Can you be more specific? Like you mention in another one of your comments, that's a rather "broad range of things." What do you mean by assets? Lifting Equipment, Reserves, Tank Batteries?

Your lack of specificity aside, I always recommend looking at McCain's Properties of Petroleum Fluids as well as [Economides' Petroleum Production Systems] (http://www.amazon.com/Petroleum-Production-Systems-Michael-Economides/dp/0137031580/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376768996&sr=1-1&keywords=production+petroleum+systems)

Sounds like quite a challenge. I don't have much advice or experience in multi-lingual environments (maybe /u/Rocknocker will chime in) but here are some resources my google-fu recovered:

• Geotechnical Engineering Handbook Could be helpful to establish common practices and terms by sharing or loaning out.
  
• Illustrated Dictionary of Geology with English-Arabic Glossary
  
• Elsevier's Oil and Gas Field Dictionary This is kinda expensive but covers 6 languages including English, Italian and Arabic.
  
• English to Turkish Civil Engineering Dictionary
  
• Arabic Dictionary of Civil Engineering: English- Arabic, Arabic-English
  
• Italian to English Environmental Engineering Dictionary There is also Farsi and Arabic versions of this book
  
• Kurdish Dictionary and Phrasebook
  
  I also found a pdf download of an Arabic Dictionary of Scientific and Engineering Terms(Al-Muntaqa) but I didn't download it and have no idea of the quality.

I found both of these books very helpful for someone who had little knowledge of the oil industry at first. They give a general overview in layman's terms. These are the amazon links, I haven't been able to find online pdf's or .mobi's for free unfortunately.

http://www.amazon.com/Oil-Gas-Production-Nontechnical-Language/dp/1593700520/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396195787&sr=1-7&keywords=petroleum+nontechnical

http://www.amazon.com/Petroleum-Refining-Nontechnical-Language-Fourth/dp/1593701586/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1396195758&sr=1-1&keywords=refining+nontechnical

This one might be handy to you: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007RF07YU/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473903273&sr=8-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=mining+explained&dpPl=1&dpID=31QGPXrE7NL&ref=plSrch

There is also this one, which is about the best mining/ geologic dictionary out there: https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Mining-Mineral-Related-Terms/dp/0922152365

A Primer of Oilwell Drilling


Oil & Gas Production in Nontechnical Language

The first one is available online, for free, I’ve found.

Read up on the industry so you can ask your uncle informed questions.

Not sure how old you are, or your fitness level, but in past years, a good “entry level” role was working as a rig hand... tough work, but it gave you firsthand experience with a lot of the tools.

• From a historical perspective I would suggest De Re Metallica: http://www.amazon.com/De-Metallica-Dover-Earth-Science/dp/0486600068
  
  
  
• An easy blog to read with events going on in the mining industry today: http://ithinkmining.com/
  
  
• Mining industry news:
  http://www.infomine.com/