Sentences with phrase «earth mining operation»

(Molycorp Minerals — the biggest rare - earth mining operation in the United States — optimistically calls them «the green elements.»)

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Metzger points out that there are far more asteroids near Earth than could ever be explored solely through scientific funding, and highlights the role terrestrial mining operations have played in expanding geologic knowledge.

«Mining is a very small part of our operation,» Burba says, noting that mining the ore containing the rare earths is only 10 percent of his company'sMining is a very small part of our operation,» Burba says, noting that mining the ore containing the rare earths is only 10 percent of his company'smining the ore containing the rare earths is only 10 percent of his company's cost.

He believes Molycorp, which invested $ 895 million to modernize the mining operations here, could seize as much as a third of the global market for rare - earth minerals when the revamped Mountain Pass facility becomes fully operational next year.

But between the price hikes and the threats of rare earths shortages, mining operations in the United States and other countries could soon be on the rise.

The bill also contains authorization for DOE to fund a loan - guarantee program designed to restart U.S. rare earth - mining operations.

Several ribbons in full - scale operation will open the heavens for solar satellites that can beam power back to Earth, large - scale zero - gravity manufacturing, space tourism, better global environmental monitoring, orbiting observatories, removal of man - made debris from Earth orbit, asteroid mining, and Mars - colonizing ships filled with hundreds of people.

The first seismic waves generated by temblors and explosions — those from mining operations as well as underground nuclear tests — are sharp and distinct, says Göran Ekström, a seismologist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York.

The latest evidence comes in an Earth Day news release from Peabody Energy, the largest private coal company, which is thriving both domestically and through rapidly growing coal exports from its worldwide mining operations to China, India and other developing countries.

Just north of the Mojave Desert, near Mountain Pass, California, Molycorp is working to restart mining operations at the largest rare - earth deposit outside of China.