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Looking for on-line English-French glossaries on mining and geology
Thread poster: Jean-Pierre Artigau (X)
Jean-Pierre Artigau (X)
Jean-Pierre Artigau (X)
Canada
Local time: 09:58
English to French
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Sep 27, 2013

Hello

Where could I find good on-line English-French glossaries on mining and geology, or unilingual resources in these same fields?

Jean-Pierre
 
Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Spain
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Universities? Sep 28, 2013

I do not work in your language pair, but if I had a need for such resources I would immediately call the university schools in my country where geology and mining are tought and would ask them for the telephone of their bookshop (most schools have their own shop or an affiliate book seller). The shop might be able to recommend a good bilingual dictionary and/or monolingual dictionaries in both source and target language as a solid starting point.

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I do not work in your language pair, but if I had a need for such resources I would immediately call the university schools in my country where geology and mining are tought and would ask them for the telephone of their bookshop (most schools have their own shop or an affiliate book seller). The shop might be able to recommend a good bilingual dictionary and/or monolingual dictionaries in both source and target language as a solid starting point.

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Tomás Cano Binder, BA, CT
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Spain
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List of universities Sep 28, 2013

Took a second: here is a list of Canadian universities where geology and earth sciences are taught:
http://www.aemq.org/EN/LIENS_UNIVERSITE-CANADIENNE-GEOLOGIE-SCIENCE-TERRE

The links take you to the departments. Time to make same calls... and investing some money in good reference books that will serve you for many years! Good luck.
 
FarkasAndras
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Here's one: Sep 28, 2013

Not sure how good it is, I came across it ages ago:
http://tu-freiberg.de/fakult3/geo/fog/FOG_Vol_4/E-dictionary.pdf
http://tu-freiberg.de/geo/fog
 
Jean-Pierre Artigau (X)
Jean-Pierre Artigau (X)
Canada
Local time: 09:58
English to French
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Thank you everyone Sep 30, 2013

This was very useful.

Jean-Pierre
 


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