Encyclopedia of Global Resources part 81 provides a wide variety of perspectives on both traditional and more recent views of Earth's resources. It serves as a bridge connecting the domains of resource exploitation, environmentalism, geology, and biology, and it explains their interrelationships in terms that students and other nonspecialists can understand. The articles in this set are extremely diverse, with articles covering soil, fisheries, forests, aluminum, the Industrial Revolution, the . Department of the Interior, the hydrologic cycle, glass, and placer mineral deposits. . | ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Global Resources Volume 3 Mineral Leasing Act - South Africa Editor Craig W. Allin Cornell College Salem Press Pasadena California Hackensack New Jersey Editor in Chief Editorial Director Christina J. Moose Manuscript Editor Christopher Rager Acquisitions Editor Mark Rehn Research Supervisor Jeffry Jensen Photo Editor Cynthia Breslin Beres Dawn P. Dawson Production. Editor Andrea E. Miller Page Design and Layout James Hutson Additional Layout Mary Overell and William Zimmerman Editorial Assist-ant. Brett Weisberg Cover photo Paulo Resende Copyright 1998 2010 by Salem Press All rights in this book are reserved. No part of this work may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopy recording or any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the copyright owner except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews or in the copying of images deemed to be freely licensed or in the public domain. For information address the publisher Salem Press atcsr@. The paper used in these volumes conforms to the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials R1997 . Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Encyclopedia of global resources Craig W. Allin editor. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-58765-644-6 set alk. paper ISBN978-1-58765-645-3 vol. 1 alk. paper ISBN 978-1-58765646-0 vol. 2 alk. paper ISBN 978-1-58765-647-7 vol. 3 alk. paper ISBN 978-1-58765-648-4 vol. 4 alk. paper 1. Natural resources. I. Allin Craig W. 2010 dc22 2010001984 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF .
