XIII, 279 p. 150 Illustrations. — ISBN: 978-0-415-87731-2 (Hbk), ISBN: 978-0-203-85280-4 (Ebook). It has been almost fifty years since the first papers on the application of reliability theory to mining problems were published in the United States. Developing rapidly in the late 1950s and 1960s, reliability theory quickly...