Sentences with phrase «rich deposits of»

Its development was accelerated by the discovery of the city's rich deposits of silver and copper, which led to Butte getting named «the richest hill on earth».

However, SWFs are not confined to energy resources; Asian funds reinvest general trade surpluses and, believe it or not, one of the earliest funds, in Kiribati, derives its wealth from phosphate - rich deposits of bird guano.

Nowadays, Tanoa thrives off rich deposits of rare earth metals exported the world over, but controversy and civil unrest have long surrounded these efforts due to the perceived social, economic and environmental impacts of their exploitation.

When the results indicate that the region contains rich deposits of gold, the madness truly begins.

But T'Challa's boasts about Wakanda's fanciful independence from other nations and its rich deposits of vibranium (a magical ore used to make weapons as well as Panther's invincible suit) merely seduce Marvel fans into accepting a new brand of exoticized inanity.

The various rural and seaside spots they visit serve as rich deposits of «faces» and as backdrops for the beating heart of the matter, their friendship.

Rich deposits of methane hydrate underlie much of the Arctic seafloor.

Only 20 % of 2016's e-waste is documented to have been collected and recycled despite rich deposits of gold, silver, copper, platinum, palladium and other high value recoverable materials.

RICH deposits of the rare and valuable metal platinum are waiting to be discovered under the frozen wastes of Siberia, and some of it may have come all the way from the centre of the Earth.

Situated along the Circum - Pacific Ring of Fire, the Philippines is blessed with rich deposits of both metallic and non metallic minerals.

In «sparing» us footnotes and bibliography, Miller has deprived scholars and others of a rich deposit of soil in which to plant and to putter.

This is as opposed to Catholics, who have received the rich deposit of Catholic social teaching.

Renewal is rather about transmitting Tradition today in its eternal newness — «in fidelity, to its own identity and the rich deposit of truth which it has received from Jesus Christ.»

«This is an extremely rich deposit of gold and copper,» says Terje Bjerkgård from Norway's Geological Survey (NGU).

It is home to the Na «vi, a race of tall, thin cat - like beings with distinctly human features whose holiest spot sits above a rich deposit of unobtainium, the most valuable mineral in the universe.

Not exact matches

If the Jay approval comes through — and O'Keefe is one of several analysts who believe it will — it would extend Ekati's life by another 10 years and firm up Dominion's consolidation of an area that has some of the richest and highest - value diamond deposits in the world.

Nearly 40 percent of the world's offshore petroleum is produced in the Indian Ocean, which also has rich mineral deposits and fisheries.

The JV sits on the western Lufilian Arc, a fold belt that contains possibly the world's largest cobalt endowment and some of the richest copper deposits globally.

The JV covers a sequence of altered rocks adjacent to the Mary Kathleen shear zone that is rich with known deposits to the north and south, including copper, gold, uranium and rare earths.

In its day, the mine was one of the richest in the British Empire, with about 500,000 tonnes of polymetallic ore extracted annually from the Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide or «VMS» style deposit in the 1920s and 1930s at spectacular grades of 23 % lead, 14 % zinc, 1 % copper and 540 g / t silver.

Marbles in metamorphic aureoles and iron - rich skarns appear to be favored sites for gold mineralization in these deposits, perhaps due to the rheological character, permeability after fracturing, and chemical reactivity of those rocks to alteration by hydrothermal fluids.

Protestant evangelical failure to appreciate the Church's entire history, moreover, has resulted in the neglect of patristic and medieval writings laden with rich deposits for doing moral theology.

Now when a group of those «heirs» wants something they don't have, like rich oil fields, clean water, rich farm land, ocean views, mineral deposits, timber or grazing lands for their animals, they go to their bibles, look up some scriptures that talk about how God promised [THEM] everything and decide to take it, regardless of who they have to first demonize (helps the conscience) then kill to get it.

Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.

The economy of the Incarnation continues unto the end of time for men in the authoritative Christian Church, and from the deposit of that Faith, guarded with jealousy and without betrayal from the citadel of God which rides the seven hills of Rome, there will beshown to men a deeper vein, and richer yet, of God's pure gold, latent within the inexhaustible mine of Christian Faith long worked by men.

This compared with the mining boom in which Australia and Brazil's rich iron ore deposits made them the only beneficiaries of China's rapid industrialization.

This operational efficiency reflects the benefit of our rich pool of stable savings and current account deposits.

The state sits on one of the nation's richest shale deposits, the Marcellus, and is the last state in the nation with a major shale play to authorize fracking.

Researchers analyzed the levels of various trace elements in hundreds of samples of carbon - rich shales that had been deposited in oxygen - poor regions of the ocean surrounding ancient continents during the past 3.5 billion years.

In the rich dinosaur deposits of North America, hundreds of skeletons of plant - eaters are found for every T. rex.

They interpreted the deposits were formed on land, not in the ocean, by identifying the presence of geyserite — a mineral deposit formed from near boiling - temperature, silica - rich, fluids that is only found in a terrestrial hot spring environment.

Ocean deposits of calcium carbonate, or limestone, indicate that CO2 - rich rainwater stripped calcium and strontium from the Himalayan rock; these elements fused with the carbon dioxide and spilled into the sea, effectively pulling carbon from the atmosphere.

At the time, these hydrocarbon - rich areas were marine coastal margins, where the productivity of marine algae was generally high and sedimentary rocks were thickly deposited.

UiB's scientists identified another large hydrothermal field with rich mineral deposits 300 km west of Bjørnøya in 2008.

By looking at the chemistry of rocks deposited during that time period, specifically coupled carbon and sulfur isotope data, a research team led by University of California, Riverside biogeochemists reports that oxygen - free and hydrogen sulfide - rich waters extended across roughly five percent of the global ocean during this major climatic perturbation — far more than the modern ocean's 0.1 percent but much less than previous estimates for this event.

That could explain two other anomalies from the era's geologic record, Lenton says: the large amounts of organic - rich shale that were deposited as nearshore sediments and the unusually high proportion of carbon - 13 isotopes in the rocks.

The dark deposits in the channels and lowlands are most likely a tar that precipitated out of the hydrocarbon - rich atmosphere.

«Outside of South Africa [this is] one of the richest platinum - metal deposits there is,» says John Morgan of the US Geological Survey in Reston, Virginia.

Key hypotheses of the origin of this soil include hydrothermal activity generating sulfate - rich, hydrated deposits on early Mars similar to what is found along the flanks of active Hawaiian volcanoes on Earth.

The Soudan Mine opened in 1884 atop one of the richest iron deposits in the world — hard hematite, about 65 percent pure.

«This amazing discovery at Riversleigh is echoed by a few examples of soft - tissue preservation in fossil bat - rich deposits in France.

Banded iron is the iron - rich rock found in ore deposits worldwide, from the proposed iron mine in Northern Wisconsin to the enormous mines of Western Australia.

He knew that if there were rich mineral deposits near Papua New Guinea, there were many more of them all along the Ring of Fire, which includes a chain of underwater volcanoes winding from New Zealand to Japan.

Lithium is found in many places on the planet, but among all of them no deposit is richer than the vast salt flats of Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, covering more than 10,000 square kilometers of the remote high plains.

On Earth, hot water is known to sometimes contain a large quantity of dissolved zinc, which it can then deposit to form zinc - rich rocks.

In fact, most of the mining is done via remote control, because the McArthur River deposit is so rich: more than 20 percent triuranium octaoxide (U3O8), the most common form of uranium found in nature, according to Cameco.

As part of a search for the cause, geologic tests revealed large deposits of arsenic - rich minerals steadily leaching into groundwater, causing levels in many wells to top 500 ppb.

The shale, named for the town of Eagle Ford, TX, is a geologic remnant of the ancient ocean that covered present day Texas millions of years ago, when the remains of sea life (especially ancient plankton) died and deposited onto the seafloor, were buried by several hundred feet of sediment, eventually turning into the rich source of hydrocarbons we have today.The shale was first tapped in 2008 and now has around 20 active fields good producing over 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

Based on direct observations of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull plume, on the correlation with the associated fallout deposit, and on dedicated laboratory analogue experiments, Irene Manzella and colleagues show how fine ash in these particle - rich fingers settles faster than individual particles and that aggregation and gravitational instabilities are closely related.

n isolated, iron - rich bay in the heart of East Africa is offering scientists a rare glimpse back into Earth's primitive marine environment, and supports theories that tiny microbes created some of the world's largest ore deposits billions of years ago.