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VANCOUVER, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Goldgroup Mining Inc. ("Goldgroup" or the "Company") (TSX:GGA, OTC:GGAZF, BMV SIC:GGAN.MX) reports that as a result of a review by the British Columbia Securities Commission (the "BCSC"), the Company is issuing the following news release to clarify its disclosure. Cerro Prieto Gold Project The Company has, pursuant to its news release dated January 28, 2013 (the "January 2013 News Release"), announced that it entered into an agreement...
HOUSTON, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Deep Down, Inc. (OTCQX: DPDW) ("Deep Down"), an oilfield services company specializing in complex deepwater and ultra-deepwater oil production distribution system support services today announced it has received a contract from a major international controls manufacturer for the manufacture of Loose Steel Tube Flying Leads (LSFL) worth in excess of $1.7 million. Additionally, there is an option to purchase additional distribution and...
HOUSTON, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) today announced that it has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire natural gas properties located in Pennsylvania prospective for the Marcellus Shale from Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) and its partners for approximately $93 million, subject to closing conditions. Upon closing, Southwestern intends to use its revolving credit facility to finance the acquisition. The company...
PITTSBURGH, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A Marcellus Shale gas well site got a little bit greener today thanks to CONSOL Energy, the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County and the PA Game Commission. In honor of Arbor Day, 15 employees from CONSOL Energy spent the morning planting white spruce hardwoods on a well pad to restore the land to its original habitat. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130426/NE02836) The Aikens well pad sits on a 60-acre site adjacent to...
WASHINGTON, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Ashton B. Carter will address strategic and budgetary challenges facing the Defense Department during a period of unprecedented fiscal uncertainty at a National Press Club Newsmaker news conference on Thursday, May 2. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) Carter was confirmed as Deputy Secretary of Defense in October 2011 after serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online For a long time now, scientists have been convinced that lava that has erupted from certain oceanic volcanoes contains material from the crust of early Earth, but decisive evidence has been elusive. A new study, published in the journal Nature, reveals that oceanic volcanic rocks contain samples of recycled crust dating back to the Archean era 2.5 billion years ago. Oceanic crust sinks below the Earth's mantle where two tectonic...
HOUSTON, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (NYSE: COG) today announced continued success from its step-out drilling in the eastern portion of its Marcellus Shale leasehold, further highlighting the consistency of results throughout its acreage position in northeast Pennsylvania. Additionally, the Company reported noteworthy results from its Marmaton drilling program in Oklahoma. MarcellusDuring the quarter, the Company turned-in-line two wells located...
TORONTO, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Dominion Diamond Corporation (TSX:DDC), (NYSE:DDC) (the "Company") is pleased to release the reserves and resource statement for the Ekati Mine that is expected to be included in the upcoming 43-101 Technical Report.The Ekati Diamond Mine was acquired from BHP Billiton Canada Inc. in April 2013 and consists of two joint ventures, the Core Zone and the Buffer Zone Joint Ventures. Highlights are: -- The Ekati Diamond Mine...
HOUSTON, March 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Noble Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NBL) will host its first quarter 2013 results webcast and conference call at 9:00 a.m., Central Time, Thursday, April 25, 2013. The webcast will be accessible on the 'Investors' page of the Company's website, www.nobleenergyinc.com. Conference call numbers for participation are 877-681-3378 and 719-325-4749. The pass code number is 4605754. A replay will be available at the same web location until July 25, 2013....
SAN DIEGO, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: BMR) today announced it will report results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2013 after the market closes on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Alan D. Gold, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kent Griffin, President, Matt McDevitt, Executive Vice President, and Greg N. Lubushkin, Chief Financial Officer, will host an investor conference call at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, May 2, 2013 to discuss the company's...
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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...
