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TORONTO, May 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Wallbridge Mining Company Limited (TSX:WM; FWB: WC7) is pleased to announce today that two highly conductive targets have been delineated on its Parkin Offset Dyke Properties (Parkin Properties), located in Sudbury, Ontario, as a result of recent down-hole geophysical surveys. As such targets within offset dykes have a high probability of representing massive nickel-copper-platinum group element-bearing (PGE) sulphides, the Company hopes to drill...
A gold mining community in Siberia has received a financial boost from the richest man in Russia, who has decided to register as a resident. Mikhail Prokorov's action means that his tax payments will go to the local budget of Krasnoyarsk Territory, where the village of Yeruda is located, RIA Novosti reported. No one expects Prokorov, who was previously registered in Moscow, to move to Yeruda, the Russian news agency said. Last year, he spent 500 million euros (almost $700 million) on a...
Ever since the 1940s, chrome has been used to add a protective coating and shiny luster to a wide range of metal products, from bathroom fixtures to car bumpers.Chrome adds beauty and durability, but those features come at a heavy cost. Though it's cheap to produce and harmless to consumers, the industrial process to create it is dangerous for workers and pollutes the environment."People have been trying to replace it for a very long time," says Christopher Schuh, MIT associate...
By creating a model of the active site found in a naturally occurring enzyme, chemists at the University of Illinois have described a catalyst that acts like nature's most pervasive hydrogen processor.The researchers describe their work in a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and posted on the journal's Web site.Scientists have long been puzzled by nature's ability to use cheap and plentiful building blocks "“ iron, nickel and sulfur "“ to...
A new sponge-like material that is black, brittle and freeze-dried (just like the ice cream astronauts eat) can pull off some pretty impressive feats. Designed by Northwestern University chemists, it can remove mercury from polluted water, easily separate hydrogen from other gases and, perhaps most impressive of all, is a more effective catalyst than the one currently used to pull sulfur out of crude oil.Hydrodesulfurization might be a mouthful, but it is also a widely used catalytic...
NYSE-A: ROY TSX: IRC DENVER, CO, May 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - International Royalty Corporation (NYSE-Amex: ROY, TSX: IRC) (the "Company" or "IRC") today reported its 2009 first quarter financial results. All figures are in United States dollars unless noted otherwise. Financial Highlights Royalty revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2009 were $7,099,000, as compared to $10,283,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2008. The decrease is due to a decline in revenue from the...
PARIS, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - Saft Will Start US Manufacture of Asymmetric Nickel Supercapacitors in 2009 - Initial Applications Will be for Engine Starting of Heavy Vehicles at Low Temperatures or in Frequent Stop-Start Usage Saft, the world specialist in the design and manufacture of high-tech industrial batteries, has signed an agreement with ESMA, the Russian Joint Stock Company, to cooperate in the development, production and commercialization of...
(TSX: NIC) (OTC BB: PNCKF) TORONTO, May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Pure Nickel Inc. (TSX: NIC, OTCBB: PNCKF) is pleased to release details of its exploration plans for the MAN, Alaska project. Pure Nickel and its project partner, ITOCHU Corporation of Tokyo met in Vancouver on April 20 and 21 and finalized a US$ 4.4 million exploration budget for the MAN project in Alaska. An additional out of plan expenditure of approximately $500,000 has also been agreed upon for a new airborne survey....
Kondo effect noted in single-atom contacts of pure ferromagnetsSpanish and U.S. physicists studying nanoelectronics have found that size really does matter when it comes to predicting the behavior of electrical contacts that are just one atom wide.In new research appearing this week in the journal Nature, physicists at Spain's University of Alicante and at Rice University in Houston have found that single-atom contacts made of ferromagnetic metals like iron, cobalt and nickel behave very...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation at UCLA (JCCF) hosts its 14th annual Taste for a Cure, May 1, 2009 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Twentieth Century Fox Television Chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden will receive the Gil Nickel Humanitarian Award, presented to them by Kiefer Sutherland. Event co-chairs are Barbara Fairchild, Editor-in-Chief, Bon Appetit Magazine; Jon Holman, President, The Holman Group; and Jay Sures, Partner and Board...
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Cobalt is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Co and atomic number 27. Notable characteristics Cobalt is a hard ferromagnetic silver-white element. The Curie temperature is of 1388 K with 1.6~1.7 Bohr magnetons per atom. It is frequently associated with nickel, and both are characteristic ingredients of meteoric iron. Mammals require small amounts of cobalt salts. Cobalt-60, an artificially produced radioactive isotope of cobalt, is an important radioactive...
Garnierite is a mineral composed of hydrous nickel silicates a member of the serpentine group with formula: (Ni,Mg)3Si2O5(OH). Népouite is a synonym. Garnierite is important as a source of nickel and is mined from laterite deposits which are formed by intense weathering and secondary enrichment of ultramafic igneous rocks.
Pentlandite is a iron-nickel sulfide, (Fe,Ni)9S8. Pentlandite usually has a Ni:Fe ratio of close to 1:1. It also contains minor cobalt. Pentlandite forms isometric crystals, but is normally found in massive granular aggregates. It is brittle with a hardness of 3.5 - 4 and specific gravity of 4.6 - 5.0 and is non-magnetic. It has a yellowish bronze color. Pentlandite is the chief ore of nickel. Typically associated with pyrrhotite, niccolite, biotite, millerite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite...
Platinum is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Pt and atomic number 78. A heavy, malleable, ductile, precious, gray-white transition metal, platinum is resistant to corrosion and occurs in some nickel and copper ores along with some native deposits. Platinum is used in jewelry, laboratory equipment, electrical contacts, dentistry, and anti-pollution devices in automobiles. Notable characteristics The metal is a beautiful silvery-white when pure, and malleable...
