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TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - June 20, 2008) - Vena Resources Inc. ("Vena" or the "Company") (TSX:VEM)(LIMA:VEM)(FRANKFURT:V1R) today announced further uranium drill results from the Macusani region. Assays from the Tantamaco project are continuing to exceed expected grade levels. Drilling in Tantamaco is near completion for phase one of the program. An additional drill platform has been made following favorable geology and visual mineralization at platform 10. "Results from the New Corani...
By Beth L. Jokinen, The Lima News, Ohio Jun. 18--SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP -- A three-year contract for school employees these days is pretty good, but Shawnee teachers are getting one better. The school board approved a three-year deal with the Shawnee Education Association on Tuesday, but the two sides are expected to sign a memorandum in the coming months to add another year onto the contract. Superintendent Paul Nardini said negotiations can be difficult and sometimes become hostile, so not...
By Richalet, Jean-Paul Rivera-Ch, Maria; Maignan, Maxime; Privat, Catherine; Pham, Isabelle; Macarlupu, Jose-Luis; Petitjean, Olivier; Leon-Velarde, Fabiola Rationale: Monge's disease is characterized by an excessive erythrocytosis, frequently associated with pulmonary hypertension, in high-altitude dwellers. It has a considerable impact on public health in high-altitude regions. A preliminary study demonstrated the efficiency of acetazolamide (Acz) (250 mg/d for 3 wk) in reducing serum...
T'ikapapa is a marketing social concept that enables resource- poor farmers from the Andean highlands to sell their distinctly labeled native potato crop in Lima's supermarkets. It has improved the income and livelihood of many farming families in Peru's high Andes. T'ikapapa is an initiative of the International Potato Center's (CIP) Papa Andina Partnership Program and the Innovation and Competitiveness of Peru's Potato Sector (INCOPA) project. Since its implementation in 2004, the project...
By Bart Mills, The Lima News, Ohio Mar. 22--LIMA -- The short career of a local television journalist ended in a fatal Columbus car accident Thursday. Don Howard, a sports reporter and sometime anchor for WLIO NBC Lima, died in a car accident Thursday night. The 29-yearold was a passenger in a car driven by Zachery Thompson, 28, when it crashed. Investigators say Thompson was attempting to flee the scene of a different crash when he crossed the center line and struck another car. The...
By Walqui, Henry Noriega, Carlos Southern Copper Corp. (SCC) is one of the world's largest copper companies. It finished the modernization of the Ilo copper smelter. A single Isasmelt furnace started smelting 1.1 Mt/a (1.2 million stpy) of concentrate at the end of 2006. Three existing Pierce Smith converters were upgraded plus a new one for converting the matte to blister copper was installed. Two new anode furnaces and a twin anode casting wheel have been operating since January 2006. This...
LIMA, Peru - The sophisticated design and colorful artwork found in a 4,000-year-old temple unearthed near Peru's northern desert coast suggests that early civilization here was more complex than originally thought, archaeologists said.Ventarron, a 7,000-square-foot site - a bit larger than a basketball court - with painted walls and a white-and-red mural of a deer hunt, points to an "advanced civilization," said the lead archaeologist who excavated the site last week."We have...
LIMA, Peru -- A fiery meteorite crashed into southern Peru over the weekend, experts confirmed on Wednesday. But they were still puzzling over claims that it gave off fumes that sickened 200 people.Local residents told reporters that a fiery ball fell from the sky and smashed into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border Saturday morning.Jose Mechare, a scientist with Peru's Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute, said a geologist had confirmed that it was a "rocky...
WASHINGTON -- The musket blast was sudden and deadly, the killing nearly 500 years ago of what may have been the first gunshot victim in the Western Hemisphere."We didn't expect it. We saw this skull and saw the almost round hole and thought people must have been shooting around here recently," said Guillermo Cock, an archaeologist who found the remains near Lima, Peru.But he realized that the skull was ancient, and a recent bullet strike would simply have shattered it, Cock said in...
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The Fragile File Clam, Limaria fragilis, is a species of bivalve mollusk belonging to the family Limidae. It’s found in shallow waters in the Indian and Pacific Oceans and is able to swim. This clam has a pair of hinged, thin, asymmetric white valves and a red mantle with a fringe of long and tapering pink and grey banded tentacles at its edge. Also around the margin of the mantle is a row of tiny eyespots that can detect light and shade, and might alert the animal of an approaching...
The Flame Shell, Limaria hians, is a species of small saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk belonging to the family Limidae. The flame shell looks a lot like a scallop with a bright orange fringe of filaments emerging from between the valve of its shell. The bivalves fashion a felt-lined nest by making sticky threads which bind stones and pieces of shell debris. This shell is distributed primarily in the west coast of Scotland from the sub littoral, down to 100 meters, although...
The Flame Scallop or Rough Fileclam (Lima scabra), is found in the Caribbean Sea. Lima scabra are members of the Phylum Mollusca. Flame scallops are also bivalve mollusks. Although their name would suggest otherwise, flame scallops have no relation to scallops, besides their exterior. Flame scallops have a rough outer shell with a red mantle. Surrounding the mantel are red and white tentacles. The flame scallop's vibrant red color is due to the large amount of carotenoids found within...
