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WHITE PINE, Nev., April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ely Gold & Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: ELY), ("Ely Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to provide the following update on its recently acquired Green Springs property located in White Pine County, Nevada. Green Springs lies approximately 5 miles south of Ely Gold's Mt. Hamilton project, 14 miles southeast of Midway Gold's Pan Deposit, 7 miles southeast of Midway's Goldrock project and 10 miles northwest of Pilot Gold's Griffon project....
BRISTOL, Va., April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE:ANR), a leading U.S. coal supplier, plans to report its first quarter 2013 results before the market opens on Thursday, May 2, 2013. A conference call to review the results and current business conditions is scheduled to follow at 10:00am EDT that morning. The conference call will be webcast live on the Internet, and the webcast will be available for replay following the event. The live webcast and the...
HOUSTON, April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ultra Petroleum Corp. (NYSE: UPL) announces the following Webcast to discuss its first quarter 2013 financial and operating results: What: Ultra Petroleum Corp. First Quarter 2013 Results Webcast When: May 3, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time Where: http://www.ultrapetroleum.com How: Live over the internet via the website address above Contact: Julie Danvers, info@ultrapetroleum.com,...
PITTSBURGH, April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX), the leading diversified fuel producer in the Eastern U.S., is providing an operations update for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. CONSOL's Coal Division produced 14.8 million tons for the first quarter of 2013, including 1.3 million tons of low-vol coking coal from the company's Buchanan Mine. Both figures exceeded guidance as production surged to meet stronger-than-expected export markets. Despite Buchanan's...
ESA Dramatic underground explosions, perhaps involving ice, are responsible for the pits inside these two large martian impact craters, imaged by ESA’s Mars Express on 4 January. The ‘twin’ craters are in the Thaumasia Planum region, a large plateau that lies immediately to the south of Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the Solar System. The northernmost (right) large crater in this scene was officially given the name Arima in early 2012, but the southernmost (left)...
HENDERSON, Nev., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulan Resources Inc. (OTCPK: TRLR) (the "Company" or "Trulan") is pleased to report on the Gold value contained in the first four ore bodies that form part of the Company's IGP Iron-Gold-Platinum Project in Chile. According to the geological report based on extensive sampling to determine the size of the Indicated Resource of the four known ore bodies to date, gold particles are widely disseminated throughout the property. All samples...
XetaWave to Accelerate Growth of Its Business BOULDER, Colo., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- XetaWave, a Colorado-based wireless technology provider, announced today that a major oil company selected XetaWave to meet all of its wireless communication needs within the Bakken Shale. The company will be using XetaWave radios in three separate but overlaying wireless networks for mobile internet access, facilities management, and well head communications at 15,000 sites. Installation is...
DOE, Ormat and GeothermEx Collaboration Produces Electricity Using In-field EGS RENO, Nev., April 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ormat Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: ORA), the U.S. Department of Energy and GeothermEx successfully produced 1.7 additional megawatts from an Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS) project inside an existing wellfield in the U.S. This is the first EGS project to be connected to the electricity grid. Using innovative subsurface technologies, research and development teams...
TSX: TVI OTCQX: TVIPF CALGARY, April 10, 2013 /CNW/ - TVI Pacific Inc. (TSX:TVI) (OTCQX:TVIPF) (TVI or the Company) announced today that it has filed an updated National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) technical report. The independent technical report is entitled "Independent Report on the Nickel Laterite Resource - Agata North, Philippines." The report was prepared for TVI Resource Development Phils. Inc (TVIRD), TVI's Philippine affiliate, by Mark G. Gifford, MSc (Hons),...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new study suggests that Earth’s atmosphere is largely the product of carbon dioxide gas moving from the mantle to the surface through volcanic activity; if similar activity were to happen on Mars – the planet would be able to sustain liquid water. According to the study, which appeared in the early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), greenhouse gases such as methane and carbon dioxide slowly...
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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...
