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Southern Hemisphere Mining (TSX VENTURE: SH) ("SHM") is pleased to announce that the company has identified a manganese opportunity located 170 km inland from the Port of Arica, Northern Chile. The company believes that this opportunity has the potential to be a significant manganese resource. Los Pumas Project - Background This manganese occurrence has been designated as the Los Pumas Project by the Company. It is a multiple layered tabular style occurrence with a surface expression of 3.6...
Rocher Deboule Minerals Corp. (TSX VENTURE: RD)(PINK SHEETS: RDBHF) ("Rocher Deboule" or the "Company") is pleased to report it has completed the assembly of its target properties in the Artillery Peak manganese district of Arizona. This assembly marks the first time in fifty (50) years this manganese camp has fallen under the control of one company. The Company now controls properties acquired through staking, a 100% acquisition, two joint ventures and two purchase agreements. The entire...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sept. 9, 2008) - Savant Explorations Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SVT) ("Savant") is pleased to announce that it has acquired by staking two wholly owned exploration properties located in the State of Chihuahua midway between the producing Bismark silver/zinc mine, 170 km to the NW and the producing Santa Eulalia silver/lead/zinc mining district 165 km to the SE. These readily accessible properties include the La Morena concession of 218.28 square kilometres...
TORONTO, Sept. 3, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aspire International, Inc's ("Aspire" or the "Company") (OTCBB:APIT) wholly owned subsidiary Aspire GuangXi Inc. ("AGI") announced today the release of the mining business executive summary. Executive Summary Summary of Business Objective Aspire GuangXi Inc. (AGI) is an enterprise with emphasis on business in Greater China, tapping on the fast growth of the region in the decades. AGI focuses on the high-growth mining and exploration industry that...
Regulatory News: Following the announcement on 20 November 2007, in which Kalagadi Manganese and ArcelorMittal announced the finalisation of an agreement confirming the selection of ArcelorMittal as a joint venture partner in developing Kalagadi's manganese deposits, the Parties have today announced that all conditions precedent to the transaction have been satisfied and the transaction implemented. ArcelorMittal has effected payment of its subscription amount to subscribe for a 50%...
Tombstone Exploration Corporation (OTCBB: TMBXF) today provided a progress report on Drill Hole TEMC 101. TEMC 101 is designed to intercept two of the major producing structures in the mining district, the Bonanza and Santa Ana veins. The Target Zone is estimated at 800' and the hole is planned to reach 1,100'. Around 550', manganese oxide stringers and veins were intercepted. Manganese oxides are the silver carriers in the mining district. Hangingwall and footwall around this zone...
Squeeze a crystal of manganese oxide hard enough, and it changes from an electrical insulator to a conductive metal. In a report published online this week by the journal Nature Materials, researchers use computational modeling to show why this happens.The results represent an advance in computer modeling of these materials and could shed light on the behavior of similar minerals deep in the Earth, said Warren Pickett, professor of physics at UC Davis and an author on the study.Manganese...
UC Davis researchers have dated the earliest step in the formation of the solar system -- when microscopic interstellar dust coalesced into mountain-sized chunks of rock -- to 4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years.UC Davis postdoctoral researcher Frederic Moynier, Qing-zhu Yin, assistant professor of geology, and graduate student Benjamin Jacobsen established the dates by analyzing a particular type of meteorite, called a carbonaceous chondrite, which represents the...
By Rajesh, Puspalata Kumar, Padma S; Suresh, Sumathi; Chandran, Sinu; Et al Type 304 stainless steel and carbon steel are extensively used as structural materials in the reactor coolant systems of nuclear power plants. The corrosion of these structural materials during normal operation and the subsequent neutron activation of their corrosion products leads to the build-up of radiation on the out-of-core surfaces of the coolant systems. The Dilute Chemical Decontamination (DCD) process Is one...
By Sahl, Jason W; Munakata-Marr, Junko; Crimi, Michelle L; Siegrist, Robert L ABSTRACT: For sites contaminated with chloroethene non-aqueous-phase liquids, designing a remediation system that couples in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) with potassium permanganate (KMnO^sub 4^) and microbial dechlorination may be complicated because of the potentially adverse effects of ISCO on anaerobic bioremediation processes. Therefore, one-dimensional column studies were conducted to understand the effect...
Latest Manganese Reference Libraries
Aluminum (or aluminium) is a soft, lightweight, silvery metal. It is an element in the boron group on the periodic table of elements, with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. On the earth's crust, aluminum is the most abundant metal, and the third most abundant of all elements on the earth's crust, after oxygen and silicon. It accounts for 8% of the weight of the Earth's solid surface. Because aluminum is a highly reactive metal, it doesn't occur in nature in a pure form. Aluminum forms a...
Manganese is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Mn and atomic number 25. Notable characteristics Manganese is a gray-white metal, resembling iron. It is a hard metal and is very brittle, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Manganese metal is ferromagnetic only after special treatment. The most common oxidation states of manganese are +2, +3, +4, +6 and +7, though oxidation states from +1 to +7 are observed. Mn2+ often competes with Mg2+ in...
