Volcano Monitoring Program Searches Iceland For Early Signs Of Eruptions
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A new collaborative project called FutureVolc is aimed at trying to improve monitoring of Iceland's volcanoes. FutureVolc started October 1, 2012 and is funded by the Environmental/FP7...
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Beach to fund 100% of an AUD$11.5 million drilling and 3D seismic program to earn 50% CALGARY, May 23, 2013 /CNW/ - Bengal Energy (TSX: BNG) ("Bengal", or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has agreed to form a strategic joint venture (the "JV") for the exploration and development of its 100% owned Tookoonooka Block ("ATP 732") in the Cooper Basin of Australia with Beach Energy Ltd. ("Beach"), an Australian energy company (ASX: BPT). Highlights: --...
New Study Documents Benefits for Job Creation, Diverse Industries, States WASHINGTON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rising exports of U.S. coal to Europe and Asia added $16.6 billion to the U.S. economy in 2011, making significant contributions to America's economic recovery and job creation in many industrial sectors as well as in regions far beyond the nation's coalfields. In a report released today by the National Mining Association (NMA), the industry's national trade...
TORONTO, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Dominion Diamond Corporation (TSX: DDC, NYSE: DDC) (the "Company") will release its Fiscal 2014 First Quarter results for the period ended April 30, 2013, after market hours on Wednesday, June 5th, 2013. Beginning at 8:30AM (ET) on Thursday, June 6th, the Company will host a conference call for analysts, investors and other interested parties. Listeners may access a live broadcast of the conference call on the Company's web site at...
"Intersects 18.80 g/t over 13.86 metres at Santoy 8" Trading Symbols TSX - CRJ NYSE MKT - CGR SASKATOON, May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Claude Resources Inc. (TSX-CRJ; NYSE MKT-CGR) ("Claude" and or the "Company") today provided results from its recently completed 2013 first quarter drill program at the Santoy Mine Complex within the Company's 100 percent-owned, 17,200 hectare Seabee Gold Operation. Recent drilling at Santoy Gap has extended the mineralized system...
HENDERSON, Nev., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulan Resources Inc. (OTCPK:TRLR) (the "Company" or "Trulan") reports on political and economic factors in Chile that further continued investor and corporate confidence relating to the mining climate in general, and to the IGP Project in particular. Chile's well defined mineral endowment continues to attract significant capital investment primarily due to the capability of its existing infrastructure enabling products to access markets,...
GRAND RAPIDS, Minn., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Magnetation LLC (Magnetation) announced today that it has successfully completed a $325 million senior secured notes offering and has entered into a $50 million senior secured credit facility. The proceeds from the notes offering will be used for capital expenditures to construct a new concentrate reclamation plant northwest of Coleraine, Minnesota and a new manufacturing plant in Reynolds, Indiana to produce high-quality iron ore...
VANCOUVER, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Tasman Metals Ltd. ("Tasman" or the "Company") (TSXV:TSM; Frankfurt:T61; NYSE-MKT:TAS). Mr Mark Saxon, President & CEO, is pleased to announce that Tasman has been granted its Mining Lease for the Norra Karr heavy rare earth element (REE) project in Sweden. The Mining Lease gives the Company the full mineral rights for the Norra Karr project for an initial period of 25 years, which is then automatically renewed in 10 year increments if the...
TSX: IMG NYSE: IAG TORONTO, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - IAMGOLD Corporation ("IAMGOLD" or the "Company") today announced additional drilling results from its 100% owned Boto Gold Project in eastern Senegal, West Africa. The Company is reporting assay results from 29 diamond drill holes totaling 7,325 metres completed between November 2012 and April 2013. The results are provided below in the Tables 1 and 2 and include the following highlights: Boto 2 prospect;...
SAN DIEGO, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Volcano Corporation (NASDAQ: VOLC) a leading developer and manufacturer of precision guided therapy tools designed to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of coronary and peripheral vascular disease, today announced it will highlight its efforts to expand research and innovation surrounding its physiology technologies, including its Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) and iFR(®) (Instant Wave-Free Ratio(TM))(1) technologies, via various clinical and...
LORTON, Va., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Next Generation Corp (OTCQB: NGMC) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a natural gas and oil lease for a 134 acre parcel in Mason County, West Virginia, increasing its portfolio of energy producing properties to 2,154 acres in the Appalachian region, in addition to its West Texas and Louisiana royalty holdings. The large parcel in southeastern Mason County is located in a prolific natural gas region of...
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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...
