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HENDERSON, Nev., March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trulan Resources Inc. (OTCPink: TRLR) (the "Company" or "Trulan") is pleased to report on the Magnetite grade and tonnage contained in the four ore bodies that are part of the IGP Iron-Gold-Platinum Project in Chile in which the Company recently entered into an agreement to acquire a 100% interest. DEPOSIT MAGNETITE GRADE (%) INDICATED RESOURCE (Million Metric Tons) -------...
Moves 92 million pounds of copper from Inferred to Indicated Resource Classification VANCOUVER, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Capstone Mining Corp. ("Capstone") (TSX: CS) today announced the results of an updated National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") compliant mineral resource estimate for the Mala Noche Footwall Zone ("MNFWZ") at the Cozamin Mine in Zacatecas, Mexico. Drilling in the MNFWZ since the last resource update in February of 2012 has converted 92 million pounds of...
TSX Venture Symbol: GWG OTCQX: GWMGF CUSIP: 39141Y 10 3 SASKATOON, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. ("GWMG" or the "Company", TSX-V: GWG) today announced that has filed its previously announced National Instrument 43-101 resource estimate and technical report (the "NI 43-101 Report"). The NI 43-101 Report, which has been prepared by Snowden Mining Industry Consultants Inc. ("Snowden") for the Company's Steenkampskraal...
National Science Foundation A network of seismographic stations recorded spectacular signals from the blast waves of the meteor that landed near Chelyabinsk, Russia, as the waves crossed the United States. The National Science Foundation- (NSF) supported stations are used to study earthquakes and the Earth's deep interior. While thousands of earthquakes around the globe are recorded by seismometers in these stations--part of the permanent Global Seismographic Network (GSN) and...
Adjusted 30-Day IP Rates Place the Doman Wells Among the Company's Top Performing Horizontal Marcellus Wells ST. MARYS, W. Va., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Trans Energy, Inc. (OTCQB: TENG), a pure play Marcellus Shale exploration and production company, today announced 30-Day initial production (IP) results on the Doman #1H and Doman #2H in Marshall County, West Virginia. 30-Day Production Rates Set New Record For Company's Wells in Marshall County Initial 30-day...
OTTAWA, Ontario, March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NSU Resources Inc. (OTCQB: NOST) is pleased to report the company will jointly implement its airborne survey on the Cobequid Highlands project, Nova Scotia with Fugro Airborne Surveys. NSU Resources entered into a joint venture with third parties for the airborne imagery of its mineral claims in Nova Scotia to accelerate its exploration program. "The Cobequid Highlands are the object of intense exploration efforts by other parties. We...
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...
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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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