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TSX-V Ticker: SWA SWA.WT VANCOUVER, June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Sarama Resources Limited ("Sarama" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has increased its interest by a further 15%, for an aggregate 80% interest, in Pedsam Mining Ltd ("PedSam") in accordance with an earn in agreement (the "Agreement") between Sarama and Pedra Mining AS (Norway) ("Pedra"). PedSam is a Liberian entity that is managed by Sarama which has title to the three exploration properties that are...
HOUSTON, June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gastar Exploration Ltd. (NYSE MKT: GST) ("Gastar") announced today that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of proven reserves and undeveloped leasehold interests in Kingfisher and Canadian Counties, Oklahoma from Chesapeake Energy Corporation ("Chesapeake"), repurchase of 6,781,768 outstanding shares of the Company's common stock currently held by Chesapeake and settlement of all litigation. The purchase price of $84 million,...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online While seismologists have the ability to detect undersea earthquakes, they don’t know which ones will turn into tsunamis. Some ocean-based sensors are able to detect an approaching tsunami, but they can only provide a few minutes of advanced warning. According to a new report in The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, two Stanford University researchers have identified key acoustic characteristics of the 2011 Japan...
TORONTO, June 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Duluth Metals Limited ("Duluth Metals") (TSX: DM) (TSX:DM.U) is pleased to announce that the Duluth Metals Annual Meeting of Shareholders will be held at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Library Room - Main Mezzanine Level, 100 Front Street West, Toronto on Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. EDT. An archived copy of the presentation will also be available on the Company website at www.duluthmetals.com after the meeting. The meeting will...
Seismological Society of America Colombia sits atop a complex geological area where three tectonic plates are interacting, producing seismicity patterns that have puzzled seismologists for years. Now seismologists have identified the "Caldas tear," which is a break in a slab that separates two subducting plates and accounts for curious features, including a "nest" of seismic activity beneath east-central Colombia and high grade mineral deposits on the surface. In a paper published in...
COLUMBIA, Md., June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Advantage Engineers officially launched its new company logo today. The new logo represents the company's specialized engineering services within the telecommunications, environmental, and geotechnical fields. The blue and green color combination signifies Advantage Engineers' above ground, ground level, and below ground services. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121102/PH04579LOGO ) The logo also modernizes the initials of...
Gold Recoveries Average 86% & Silver Recoveries Average 77% TSX: KOR OTCQX: CORVF VANCOUVER, June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Corvus Gold Inc. ("Corvus" or the "Company") - (TSX: KOR, OTCQX: CORVF) announces the results of a series of cyanide bottle roll tests on sample composites from the Yellow Jacket high-grade gold-silver zone, North Bullfrog, Nevada (Table 1). The results from 22 composites throughout the currently defined high-grade area averaged recoveries of 86%...
HOUSTON, June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FMC Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: FTI) announced today that it has received an order from Shell for subsea equipment for its portfolio of projects in the Gulf of Mexico. The scope of supply includes 12 enhanced vertical deepwater trees and controls. "FMC Technologies has been supporting Shell's subsea requirements for nearly two decades," said Tore Halvorsen, FMC Technologies' Senior Vice President, Subsea Technologies. "We are pleased to provide...
- $250 million drop down acquisition of an associated natural gas gathering system located in the Bakken Shale Play from Summit Investments DALLAS, June 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) today announced two separate acquisitions of unrelated natural gas gathering systems totaling $460 million in the Bakken and Marcellus shale plays. The transactions will be financed under SMLP's recently upsized $600 million revolving credit facility and...
Company invites Main Street and Wall Street investors to attend interactive real-time virtual conference NEW YORK, June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Comstock Mining Inc. (NYSE MKT: LODE) today announced that Kimberly Shipley, Manager of Investor Relations, will present at RetailInvestorConferences.com. DATE: June 6, 2013 TIME: 1:00 PM EDT LINK: www.retailinvestorconferences.com > click on the red "register / watch event now" button This will be a live, interactive online...
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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...
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