Amazon River Eats Almost All Of What The Rainforest Feeds It
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Amazon rainforest is known as the lungs of the planet because it inhales carbon dioxide and exudes oxygen into the atmosphere. The plants of the forest use the carbon dioxide to promote...
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GIG HARBOR, Wash., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LKA Gold Incorporated (OTCQB: LKAI) announced that first quarter ore deliveries from its Golden Wonder exploration program contained 257 ounces of gold with a gross value of $411,402 vs. 135 ounces valued at $232,609 during the same period in 2012. Gold sales, net of milling and processing charges, were $289,026 vs. $193,893 in the year-ago period. Average ore grades during the first quarter were 1.14 ounces (32.32 grams) gold per ton...
SALT LAKE CITY, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inception Mining Inc. (the "Company"), formerly Gold American Mining Corp., today announced a new corporate identity and also announced that its common stock has begun trading under a new ticker symbol (OTC BB: IMII) on the over-the-counter bulletin board. On February 25, 2013, the Company acquired certain real property and the associated mineral rights commonly known as the U.P. and Burlington Gold Mine in Lemhi County, ID. UP &...
TSX-V Ticker: SWA SWA.WT VANCOUVER, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Sarama Resources Limited ("Sarama" or the "Company") is pleased to report that it has been granted three new exploration permits in Burkina Faso, including one adjacent to the Company's flagship South Houndé Project, which brings the Company's exploration landholding in this prospective region to 1,014km². Highlights -- Three new exploration permits totalling 240km² granted, expanding...
VANCOUVER, May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Callinex Mines (TSX.V-CNX) (OTCQX-CLLXF) is pleased to announce that it has recently completed an exploration program at its wholly owned Gossan Hill property in Manitoba, near the past producing Gurney Gold mine. The drill program was carried-out during the month of March and consisted of six drill holes totaling 1,499m. The program objectives were to test the extent of mineralization along strike on the western (GOS066, GOS067) and...
SPOKANE, Wash., May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Goldrich Mining Company (OTCBB: GRMC) ("Goldrich") is pleased to report Goldrich NyacAU Placer, LLC ("GNP"), has successfully completed mobilizing equipment and supplies needed for its placer drill program and placer mining operation this summer at Chandalar, Alaska. GNP is a 50/50 joint-venture company formed by Goldrich and NyacAU, LLC. ("NyacAU") and managed by NyacAU to mine Goldrich's various placer properties at Chandalar. Equipment...
TSX-V Ticker: SWA SWA.WT VANCOUVER, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Sarama Resources Limited ("Sarama" or the "Company") is pleased to report that it has been granted a new Mineral Reconnaissance Licence, covering ground immediately along strike from a 9km-long, high-tenor gold-in-soil anomaly at its existing Cape Mount exploration property in Liberia. The Company has also been successful in having the terms for two of its other Liberian Mineral Exploration Licences extended....
VANCOUVER, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Medgold Resources Corp. (TSXV: MED), the European focused gold exploration company, is pleased to announce results of recently completed exploration at its wholly-owned Pietratonda licence in the Colline Metallifere of Central Italy. HIGHLIGHTS -- A total of 273 rock samples collected (including QA-QC) -- Au-Sb anomaly defined over 600 by 200 metres -- Anomalism associated with inferred high-angle 'feeder'...
VANCOUVER, April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Fortuna Silver Mines Inc. (NYSE: FSM) | (TSX: FVI) | (BVL: FVI) | (Frankfurt: F4S.F) is pleased to report that exploration drilling has successfully extended the Trinidad ore shoot to the north and to depth with mineralization remaining open in both directions. Results are also reported for the initial infill drilling being carried out in the central portion of the Trinidad deposit for purposes of conversion of Inferred Mineral Resources to...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online New research claims charcoal created from wildfires does not remain in the soil as previously believed, but is instead transported into the sea by rivers, where it ultimately enters the carbon cycle. That determination was made by an international team of researchers, including Thorsten Dittmar from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI) in Bremen and Rudolf Jaffé from Florida International University's...
LAS VEGAS, April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Rimrock Gold Corp. (OTCQB: RMRK) (the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has completed an initial geological mapping and geochemical sampling program on the Rimrock gold-silver property in Elko County, Nevada. The new geologic mapping has shown that the Rimrock gold property contains a large-scale, multiple-fault dilation zone gold-silver target situated just north of the Hollister Mine. The principal epithermal Midas style...
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Diorite is a grey to dark grey intermediate intrusive igneous rock composed principally of plagioclase feldspar (typically andesine), hornblende, and/or pyroxene. Varieties deficient in hornblende and other dark minerals are called leucodiorite. It is often described as "salt and pepper" when composed largely of light-colored minerals randomly interspersed with dark minerals. When olivine and more iron-rich augite are present, the rock grades into ferrodiorite, which is transitional to...
Gabbro is a dark, coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock chemically equivalent to basalt. It is a plutonic rock, formed when molten magma is trapped beneath the Earth's surface and cools slowly into a hard, coarsely crystalline mass. It is dense, greenish or dark-colored and contains varied percentages of plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, amphibole, and olivine (called olivine gabbro when olivine is present in large quantities). Quartz gabbros are also known to occur and are probably derived...
Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock of the same general composition as granite but with the quartz either absent or present in relatively small amounts. The feldspars are alkaline in character and the dark mineral is usually hornblende. Soda-lime feldspars may be present in small quantities. The term syenite was originally applied to hornblende granite like that of Syene in Egypt, from which the name is derived. Syenite is not a common rock, some of the more important...
