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TSX: KOR OTCQX: CORVF VANCOUVER, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Corvus Gold Inc. ("Corvus" or the "Company") - (TSX: KOR, OTCQX: CORVF) announces the latest assays from the ZuZu zone resource expansion drilling program within the Nevada, North Bullfrog Project. The ZuZu program is directed at defining an expanded resource base for the Mayflower mine project for inclusion into the ongoing Mayflower feasibility study scheduled for release in Q1 of 2013. The final 19 holes of the...
SANTIAGO, Chile, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Swingplane Ventures, Inc. (OTC-BB: SWVI) (the "Company" or "Swingplane") advises that it intends to commence additional metallurgical testing on samples from its Algarobbo Property in Chile this month. The Company is currently arranging for additional metallurgical testing to done on a series of samples from our IOCG project in Chile. Prior testing has determined that the IOCG veins carry between 4% and 46.58% copper. Ore from 9%...
[ Watch the Video: Animation of a Tsunami Wave ] April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online An international collaboration has resulted in a new study showing that the earthquake zones off certain coasts, such as Japan and Java, make them especially vulnerable to tsunamis. These zones can produce a focusing point that creates massive and devastating tsunamis capable of breaking the rules by which scientists used to think tsunamis worked. Previously, scientists largely...
DALLAS, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Summit Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE: SMLP) today announced that its 2012 tax packages, including the Schedule K-1, are now available online and may be accessed at https://www.partnerdatalink.com/summit/. SMLP will begin mailing the 2012 tax packages to unitholders today, and expects to complete the process by March 11, 2013. Unitholders may also call Partner DataLink at (855) 375-4158 Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CST or visit...
University of Arizona Antarctica's topography began changing from flat to fjord-filled starting about 34 million years ago, according to a new report from a University of Arizona-led team of geoscientists. Knowing when Antarctica's topography started shifting from a flat landscape to one with glaciers, fjords and mountains is important for modeling how the Antarctic ice sheet affects global climate and sea-level rise. Although radar surveys have revealed a rugged alpine landscape...
Additional $25 Million to Fund 2013 Marcellus Shale Development Program ST. MARYS, W. Va., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trans Energy, Inc. (OTCQB: TENG), a pure play Marcellus Shale exploration and production company, today announced that it has increased the size of its existing credit facility to $75 million from $50 million. The expanded facility closed and was funded on February 28, 2013. John Corp, President of Trans Energy, said, "The expanded credit facility further...
TULSA, Okla., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the world's largest professional geological society, will join with the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), the largest international society dedicated to applied geophysics, in the publication of a new, peer-reviewed journal for advancing the practice of subsurface interpretation. INTERPRETATION will comprise papers directly related to the practice of interpretation of...
HONOLULU, Mach 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hollywood movie star Justin Chon will be visiting Honolulu to host an event sponsored by Volcano Fine Electronic Cigarettes March 16 at VICE and GINZA Nightclub. Justin Chon recently released 21 & Over, a blockbuster hit from the directors of the movie Hangover. Chon has also been seen in The O.C., House, Twilight, Hang Loose, and other hit movies. Chon started acting in 2005 in shows such as Jack & Bobby and Taki & Luci. In 2008,...
TORONTO, March 6, 2013 /CNW/ - Mandalay Resources Corporation ("Mandalay" or the "Company") (TSX: MND) is pleased to announce that its 2012 exploration efforts have resulted in increased Mineral Reserves. Contained gold ("Au") in Mineral Reserves grew by 33%, contained silver ("Ag") by 14%, and contained antimony ("Sb") by 38%, all net of mine depletion, in year-end 2012 independent estimations at its Cerro Bayo, Chile, and Costerfield, Australia, mines. Table 1: Mandalay...
SANTIAGO, Chile, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Swingplane Ventures, Inc. (OTC-BB: SWVI) (the "Company" or "Swingplane") The newly appointed President of Swingplane Ventures Inc. provides detail on the Lindorfer (2012) geological interpretations on the Company's Iron Oxide -Copper-Gold (IOCG) property located approximately 850 km north of Santiago, in the III Region, Province of Copiapo, Chile (the "Property"). A recent report by Lindorfer (2012), "Geological interpretations on the...
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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...
