Dongba Art is the primitive religious art special of the Naxi ethnics who live in the frontier area of southwest China and believe in Dongba religion. Dongba religion got its name from the fact that the priest of the religion is called ...
Population and Language: Southwest of the Gansu Province, the area of Mt. Jishishan Bonan, Dongxiang, and Salar Autonomous County is home to the Bonan ethnic minority. With a population of just sixteen thousand, they are one of the ...
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The Egyptians and the Romans were excellent manufacturers of coloured glass which they used as raw material for small ornamental objects such as the Lycurgus Cup in the British Museum which is of a hazy mustard colour but turns into a ...
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Reuters reported that Europe’s No 2 copper producer KGHM has applied for an exploration license in Kazakhstan to help it reach its long flagged target of 700,000 tonnes of annual copper output by 2018. Mr Herbert Wirth CEO of KGHM ...
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Volta Resources Inc announced the first results from its recently completed 131 hole, 13,528 meters reverse circulation and diamond drilling program on its Gaoua copper and gold project located in southern Burkina Faso West Africa. The ...
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At the new copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) facility of the Solliance collaboration platform in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the first CIGS solar cells have been fabricated, demonstrating solar energy conversion efficiency of ...
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The Associated Press reported that 8 demonstrators arrested for peacefully protesting in Myanmar's largest city against a mining project have been freed on bail. Mr Aung Thein the lawyer for two of the activists arrested in the last ...
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A consortium of Chinese and South African entities has agreed to purchase the 74.5% interest in South African copper producer Palabora Mining currently held by major miners Rio Tinto and Anglo American. The transaction in which Rio Tinto ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are collaborating in a worldwide research effort to assess any potential impacts of nanomaterials on people's health and the environment. ...
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Sulzer Pumps has secured a contract to supply 12 large dewatering pump sets for a copper mine in Zambia.The contract covers the design,manufacture,testing,packaging,installation supervision and commissioning of ten large high pressure HPH ...
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Ahead of the first tranche of 9.59% disinvestment of government ownership of 99.59% of Hindustan Copper Limited, India’s only vertically integrated producer of the red metal, the company’s share traded in small lots at up to INR ...
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MMC Norilsk Nickel (hereinafter, the Company or MMC Norilsk Nickel) held a road show devoted to sustainable development issues. In this regard, MMC Norilsk Nickel became the first Russian company that organized this kind of road show for ...
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Reuters reports that London copper was steady near 2 month highs as signs of a revival in China's economic growth and hopes of further easing by the United States underpinned prices while wrangling over the US fiscal cliff weighed on ...
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KBL Mining has begun production from the recently discovered, high grade copper gold Red Terror Lodes at its Mineral Hill Mine in New South Wales. The immediate three month rolling mine plan will source about 50% of the ore feed from ...
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The Directors of Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources Limited have pleasure outlining the path forward for the Company. CYU continues to maintain the full support of its major shareholder, Chinalco, which holds 43% of the issued shares ...
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