Latest Oxide Stories

BONDERITE® Flex Process makes North American debut on 2013 Ford F-150 DETROIT, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Henkel Corporation's automotive group today announced the North American production debut of its BONDERITE(®) Flex Process on the 2013 Ford F-150. The Flex Process, used on the body of the 2013 F-150, enables a significant increase in aluminum content on vehicles by replacing the traditional zinc phosphating process with a zirconium oxide pretreatment. The 2013 F-150...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- There will be no more "Made in the USA," with millions of jobs lost if the United States doesn't start mining and stock piling certain strategic metals, according to Alisha A. Ahern, co-director of the Academics & Periodicals Department at American Elements, the global chemical and metals manufacturer which published the list. Today the company released its annual top five Endangered Elements List (EEL) of metals that can upset...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Life on earth began in the oceans, but it would eventually spread to land and a new study suggests that land-dwelling bacteria could have covered large swaths of territory about 2.7 billion years ago, despite a thin ozone layer that would have offered little protection against the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. According to astrobiologists at the University of Washington, these earliest microbes produced oxygen and broke down pyrite,...

New biogeochemical understanding of manganese oxidation lends insight to environmental remediation Harvard-led researchers have discovered that an Ascomycete fungus that is common in polluted water produces environmentally important minerals during asexual reproduction. The key chemical in the process, superoxide, is a byproduct of fungal growth when the organism produces spores. Once released into the environment, superoxide reacts with the element manganese (Mn), producing a highly...

TSX-V: IRN VANCOUVER, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Iron Creek Capital Corp. (TSX-V: IRN - "Iron Creek") is pleased to report results from a preliminary trenching and grab-sampling program carried out at its wholly owned Magallanes gold-silver project in northern Chile. The principal targets of the program are low-sulphidation, epithermal precious metals quartz veins of a type similar to those found at Yamana's El Peñon mine located along trend some 45km due south. Highlights...

TORONTO, May 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Sulliden Gold Corporation Ltd. ("Sulliden", or the "Company") (TSX: SUE) (OTCQX: SDDDF) (BVL: SUE) is pleased to announce further assay results from the North Corridor of its Shahuindo property in Peru (See property location map, Figure 1).  The new intercepts reported in Table 1 and Figure 2 represent 1,527 metres of a total of 5,227 metres from 22 holes that have been completed in the North Corridor to date (previously reported intercepts...

Harnessing the energy of sunlight can be as simple as tuning the optical and electronic properties of metal oxides at the atomic level by making an artificial crystal or super-lattice ‘sandwich’ says a Binghamton University researcher in a new study published in the journal Physical Review B. "Metal oxides are cheap, abundant and 'green,'" said Louis Piper, assistant professor of physics at Binghamton University. "And as the study proved, quite versatile. With the right touch, metal...

TORONTO, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Sulliden Gold Corporation Ltd. ("Sulliden", or the "Company") (TSX: SUE) (OTCQX: SDDDF) (BVL: SUE) is pleased to report additional assay results for 23 holes totaling 4,398 metres of exploration drilling conducted on its Shahuindo property in northern Peru (See property location map, Figure 2). Sulliden has successfully identified a new parallel mineralized zone approximately 300 metres in strike length adjacent to the main mineralized...

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tronox Incorporated, on behalf of its subsidiary companies, today announced the following price increase for all TRONOX(®) titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades: (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20051118/TRONOXLOGO-a) Effective April 1, 2012 or as contracts allow: Latin America $250 per tonne This increase is in addition to those previously announced. Other increases may be announced locally within each region. Headquartered...

Iron is key to reversing global warming, Concordia and McGill research shows Canada defines itself as a nation that stretches from coast to coast to coast. But can we keep those coasts healthy in the face of climate change? Yves Gélinas, associate professor in Concordia’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, has found the solution in a surprising element: iron. In a study published in Nature, Gélinas — along with Concordia PhD candidate Karine Lalonde and graduate Alexandre...