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VANCOUVER, April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Nevada Geothermal Power Inc. ("NGP" or "the Company") (TSX.V: NGP) announces that the Company and funds managed by EIG Global Energy Partners (collectively "EIG"), the mezzanine lender for the Blue Mountain Geothermal Project, closed the Equity and Collateral Transfer Agreement on March 28, 2013 (refer to News Release dated January 16, 2013). EIG has accepted the transfer of ownership of NGP Blue Mountain Holdco LLC ("BM Holdco") in full...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a new study from a team of German researchers, geological forces are stagnating in certain regions because of pressure-induced phase transitions. The Earth’s crust is in a constant state of flux, with solid slabs diving hundreds of miles down into the mantle as hot liquid magma rises up to fill the gaps. According to study author Falko Langenhorst from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, these forces are constantly...
Pembina has called upon the oil sands producing province of Alberta, Canada to close its coal-fired plants claiming their emissions cause 100 premature deaths, health costs and global warming. Economist Dr. Ross McKitrick whose statistical analysis with mathematician Steve McIntyre demolished the Hockey Stick graph, the global warming icon, now disputes the statistical fear-mongering of the Pembina Institute on the emission health effects. Calgary, Alberta, Canada (PRWEB) March 28, 2013...
SANTIAGO, Chile, March 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Swingplane Ventures, Inc. (OTC-BB: SWVI) (the "Company" or "Swingplane") is pleased to update information pertaining to the Algarrobo Property. Swingplane Ventures, Inc.'s (the "Company") Algarrobo Property (the "Property") is an Iron Oxide-Copper-Gold (IOCG) property located approximately 850 km north of Santiago, in the III Region, Province of Copiapo, Chile. The city of Copiapo is located approximately 43 km to the southeast of the...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Researchers from the University of Colorado claim to have uncovered new evidence supporting the notion that a Manhattan-sized asteroid collided with the Earth some 66 million years ago, triggering a global firestorm that would have led to the extinction of 80 percent of the planet’s species. According to Douglas Robertson of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and colleagues, the firestorm...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online By using electromagnetic technology to map a large area of seafloor near Central America and the northern East Pacific Rise, researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography report that they have a better idea of the origin of the erupted magma that eventually becomes new seafloor. Scientists have known for several decades that the seafloor is formed throughout the major ocean basins at the linear chains of volcanoes known...
TSX:RMX | NYSE.MKT:RBY TORONTO, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Rubicon Minerals Corporation (TSX: RMX | NYSE.MKT: RBY) ("Rubicon" or the "Company") has been informed by SRK Consulting that the updated mineral resource estimate for the F2 Gold System, which comprises the Phoenix Gold Project, is close to completion. The Company plans to release a summary of this updated mineral resource estimate in early April 2013. About Rubicon Minerals Corporation Rubicon Minerals...
Symbol:-TSX-V:NAA OTCQX:SIOCF VANCOUVER, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - SIERRA IRON ORE CORP (the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on the legal action against PARADOX GLOBAL RESOURCES, SA DE CV ("Paradox") that owns and operates an iron ore mine on the adjacent property to the recently optioned Mazomique property that is located south of the El Creston property. As previously announced on January 8, 2013, the legal action claims that Paradox has illegally crossed the...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online One of Iceland’s most active volcanoes, Hekla, has been showing signs of potential activity as of late, prompting National Commissioner of the Icelandic Police to declare an “uncertainty phase” for the snow-capped peak. Geologists at the Icelandic Met Office reported unusual seismic activity on the mountain over the past two to three weeks, but said there was no sign that an eruption was imminent. The “uncertainty phase”...
-- Coalspur and CN complete seven-year definitive transportation agreement for haulage of coal from Vista to Ridley Terminals -- Agreement also signed to govern the construction of a 6.5km rail line CALGARY, March 27, 2013 /CNW/ - Coalspur Mines Limited ("Coalspur") (ASX: CPL), (TSX: CPT) is pleased to announce that it has reached a definitive agreement (the "Agreement") with CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) for the transportation of thermal...
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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...
