As the story goes The Junk became infamous for dropping anchor beside coastal caves rich with
gold ore which the pirates blasted out and confiscated as their booty.
Not exact matches
Unlike oil,
gold and copper, for
which prices are set in London and New York, iron
ore is one of the few commodities whose global pricing takes its cue from China.
President Michel Temer's defiant decision to open the areas of Amapá and Pará,
which is believed to be a significant resource of
gold, copper, iron
ore and other minerals, has angered environmentalists in particular, who say the area is abounding in biodiversity and is home to myriad species that have yet to be studied.
The most likely outcome would be an acquisition of the PEP property by Yamana
Gold,
which is semi-desperate to find more
ore which would allow them to run the mill at El Penon at full capacity.
He added that «there are several projects in roads, water transport, industry, manufacturing, agriculture, petroleum and gas, renewable energy, the exploitation of our mineral wealth of bauxite, iron
ore and
gold, and the ICT sector, amongst others,
which are being structured to attract private sector financing.»
Mining companies are looking to use the critters instead of cyanide to pull
gold from
ore,
which would be much less environmentally destructive.
«These results have surprised us, and lead the way for many interesting applications such as optimising the processes for
gold extraction from
ore and re-processing old tailings or recycled electronics,
which isn't currently economically viable.»
In a second stage devised to obtain any remaining
gold and silver particles, the
ore, now the consistency of sand, was soaked in watered - down potassium cyanide,
which drew the metals out into a form that could be trapped by trays filled with zinc shavings.
Today the river is in full flow due to ice - melt and some recent heavy rain in the San Juan all of
which promises to add to the splendour of this railroad journey
which, from the very beginning was promoted as a scenic route for passenger service even though the line was constructed primarily to haul
gold and silver mine
ores from the San Juan Mountains.
Fossil hunting went lousy as usual, but I managed to get another
gold ore today
which means I have 3 again to try for another piece of
gold furniture.
The more - the - better syndrome of creating short - term registrants for long - term bureaucracy income may be better for the bottom lines of
ORE bureaucrats, but it is definitely not better for the public interest upon
which the never - ending stream of amateur registrants is let loose to find their pots of
gold.