Labor problems and low prices have platinum mines closing up shop in South Africa, and the potential for acquisitions is ripening. Senior Mining Analyst and Managing Director at Stifel Nicolaus in Toronto, George Topping believes that ...
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Imagine for a moment that you have a credit card with a limit of a few trillion dollars but with one caveat: you need to use those funds exclusively to provide for your family. It sounds easy, until you realize your “family” is ...
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The Mars Curiosity Rover, a robot sent to Mars by Nasa principally to investigate the possibility of extra-terrestrial life on the planet, uses many technologies which will be familiar to those in the tech industry. It landed in a crater ...
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History Associates, the leading U.S. historical services firm, along with the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC), and app developer NeoTreks Inc., is pleased to announce the availability of a new mobile app guided tour of Pointe du ...
Proactive Investors reported that Reedy Lagoon and its JV partners have being joined by Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corporation and Sojitz Corporation to explore the Bullamine iron ore project in Western Australia. Both the Japanese ...
Pluton Resources Ltd may soon start to export iron ore mined from approximately 60 meters below sea level in the coming weeks. Mr Tony Schoer CEO of Pluton's said that the revenue obtained from this export will be used to fund further ...
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Estrella Gold Corporation announced that Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Inc a wholly owned subsidiary of Cliffs Natural Resources Inc has accepted the Yanac Property as JV Project. Cliffs and Estrella each now hold 50% interest in the ...
Reuters reported that strike while the iron is hot, the old saying goes, and a legion of iron ore miners setting up in Canada's remote Labrador Trough want to do just that. But, for now, they have to wait. Iron ore, the main component of ...
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US food manufacturers including PepsiCo, Mondelez International and Hershey have closed offices and factories as Hurricane Sandy moves closer to the country's eastern seaboard. Nestle and Unilever have also confirmed some of their US ...
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Population and Distribution: With a population of about 16,178,811, the Zhuang ethnic minority is the largest minority group in China with a long history and glorious culture. Over 90 percent of the Zhuang people live in Guangxi Zhuang ...
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Dresses and accessories mark the lifestyles and production levels of the people of a geographic region during a historical period, and they vividly reflect the people's customs and aesthetic tastes. Headdresses play an important role in ...
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The religion of Hani Yeche people is based on the cult to the ancestors and in the deification of the forces of the nature. The fundamental concept is the existence of different souls or "yuela." They believe that people are eminently ...
The number of people of the Tibetan ancestry is placed at 4,593,330. They mainly live in Tibet Autonomous Region and the neighboring provinces such as Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan. Tibet, the roof of the world, is a land of ...
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First Point Minerals Corp announced the second batch of results for 15 of the 27 resource definition holes completed during this year's drilling campaign at the Decar nickel-iron alloy project in central British Columbia. The Decar project ...
The West Australian cited Mr Chris Ellison MD of Mineral Resources as saying that the company plans a spin out of its iron ore assets within the next 2 years. According to the company, over the past 3 years MinRes has quietly built a ...