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-Higher Reserves, Higher Production and Lower Costs Expected- Material Julie Mineral Reserve increase anticipated following: -- 84% Mineral Resource uplift to more than 1.0Moz and 33% higher grade to ~2g/t Au(prev. 567,000,000oz @ 1.5g/t Au) -- Preliminary test work indicating 5% increase in primary ore recovery(from 85% in 'Stage One' Feasibility Study) -- Recent infill drilling of Inferred mineralisation in planned...
Each of the six new papers published in Geosphere on 13 June address geoscience compiled in specially themed issues: CRevolution 2: Origin and Evolution of the Colorado River System II; The 36–18 Ma southern Great Basin, USA, ignimbrite province and flareup: Swarms of subduction-related supervolcanoes; New Developments in Grenville Geology; and Origin and Evolution of the Sierra Nevada and Walker Lane. Abstracts for these and other Geosphere papers are available at...
VANCOUVER, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Commerce Resources Corp. (TSXv: CCE, FSE: D7H, OTCQX: CMRZF) (the "Company" or "Commerce") is pleased to provide an overview of the pending 2013 field program at its 100% owned Ashram Rare Earth Element (REE) Deposit located in Northern Quebec. A six to eight week field program is anticipated to commence July 15, 2013, which will include 1,000 to 1,500 m of drilling targeted at the Ashram Rare Earth Deposit. Drilling will focus on infill...
WEST CHESTER, Ohio, June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) has received an award for "Best Mergers and Acquisitions" from American Metal Market (AMM), a leading metal industry publication. The award recognizes the company's ongoing progress in developing its strategic investments in Magnetation LLC and AK Coal Resources - acquisitions that were initially announced in 2011. Those operations will provide the company with approximately 50 percent of its annual iron ore and...
Highlights: -- Board-approved development plan will deliver a 6 Mtpa clean coal capacity operation in one stage for C$458M, a capital efficiency of C$76 per tonne of capacity -- Significant improvement over the prior plan which called for a two-stage development to 6 Mtpa, for a cost of C$655M -- Competitive and robust process with globally recognised EPC contractors resulted in an optimised project and...
TORONTO, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Duluth Metals Limited ("Duluth Metals" or the "Company") (TSX: DM) (TSX: DM.U) is pleased to announce the results of its Annual General Meeting of shareholders (the "Meeting") held June 13(th), 2013. A total of 80,838,756 shares were represented at the Meeting, representing 64.28% of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company. Shareholders voted in favour of all items of business before the meeting, including the election of all director...
Is this where the expected Marmara earthquake will originate from? Earthquake researchers have now identified a 30 kilometers long and ten kilometers deep area along the North Anatolian fault zone just south of Istanbul that could be the starting point for a strong earthquake. The group of seismologists including Professor Marco Bohnhoff of the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences reported in the current online issue of the scientific journal Nature (Nature Communications, DOI:...
-The $160 million investment was built within aggressive 12-month timeline and is designed to transport up to 425 million cubic feet per day of Marcellus Shale production- HOUSTON, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NiSource Midstream Services (NMS), LLC, a Columbia Pipeline Group (CPG) company and a wholly owned entity of NiSource Inc., announced today that its Big Pine Gathering System has initiated service in support of its long-term gathering agreement with XTO Energy Inc. The Big...
SALT LAKE CITY, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FX Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FXEN) announced today that the Company will make a presentation at the GHS 100 Energy Conference in Chicago on Tuesday, June 25, 2013. The presentation is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Central time. A link to the webcast will be available on the homepage of the FX Energy website at www.fxenergy.com. For those unable to participate during the live webcast, the presentation will also be available for replay on the...
Oil and mineral exploration drillers are expected to face a number of structural challenges as the mining boom slows. For this reason, industry research firm IBISWorld has added a report on the Oil and Mineral Exploration Drilling in Australia to its growing industry report collection. Melbourne, Australia (PRWEB) June 18, 2013 In the five years through 2012-13, the Oil and Mineral Exploration Drilling industry has followed a volatile growth path. The industry provides services for mining...
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The Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands is an ecoregion including two volcanic islands in the southern Indian Ocean. The French research vessel Marion Dufresne II, which services the Martin-de-Vivies research station on Amsterdam Island, is the only way to visit the islands. There are two volcanoes that lie 83 kilometers from each other in the center of a triangle between Australia, Antarctica and southern Africa called Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul. The islands are...
Tristan da Cunha is an archipelago of five islands within the southern Atlantic Ocean, the biggest of which is the island of Tristan da Cunha itself and the second-biggest, the isolated bird haven Gough Island. It creates a portion of a wider territory named Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which incorporates Saint Helena and Ascension Island. The main island, Tristan da Cunha, is fairly mountainous; the only flat area is the location of the capital, Edinburgh of the Seven...
The Columbia Plateau ecoregion is a Level III ecoregion designed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington, with little areas over the Washington state border in Idaho. This ecoregion stretches across a wide swath of the Columbia River Basin from the Dalles, Oregon to Lewiston, Idaho to Okanogan, Washington near the Canadian border. It incorporates nearly 500 miles of the Columbia River, as well as the lower reaches of major tributaries....
A river delta is a landform that is created at the mouth of a river, where the river flows into an ocean, estuary, lake, sea, or reservoir. These deltas are built from the deposition of the sediment that is carried by the river as the flow exit’s the mouth of the river. Over a long period of time, this deposition constructs the distinctive geographic pattern of a river delta. The creation of a delta is made up of three core forms: the bottomset, topset, and foreset/frontset. Bottomset...
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is located in the United States on the island of Hawaiʻi. The park contains 323,431 acres of land, of which half is designated as Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness, and the distinctive Mauna Loa and Kīlauea volcanoes. Mauna Loa is the world’s largest volcano and Kīlauea is among the world’s most active. The first American visitor to the park was Asa Thurston and the first English visitor was a missionary named William Ellis, both of whom traveled to the...
