Sentences with word «greenstone»

Between the two projects, Great Bear now has agreement in place to control 9,831 hectares of prospective greenstone belts.

After Haast the route turns inland to Pleasant Flat and the northern margins of Mt Aspiring National Park to the Gates of Haast, the most recent pass across the Alps The route you follow is that of the ancient Maori greenstone trail, which climbs steeply through rocky terrain, with breathtaking views of Mt Brewster and the many rivers and waterfalls that cross this area.

Now it ferries physicists and other visitors to a $ 16 million apparatus [pdf] they've built in a cavern blasted out of greenstone nearly a half mile beneath the hardscrabble town of Soudan, in northern Minnesota.

Offers a variety of memorable, fully guided tours following the ancient greenstone trails of the Maori plus the goldfield pioneers pathways.

Unlike most of the other «Great Walks», which evolved from Maori greenstone trails or pioneer exploration routes, the Kepler Track was custom - made - built for pleasure, rather than necessity.

TROY Resources NL has opened up a new area of the Sandstone greenstone belt with its recent commissioning of the Bulchina gold mine.

The project lies on the prolific Yellowknife greenstone belt, and covers 45 km of strike length on the southern and northern extensions of the shear system that hosts the high - grade Con and Giant gold mines.

At Copan, to the south, for example, fifth - century mourners dressed their dead queen in burial garments shimmering with precious greenstone beads, shell ornaments and feathered bird heads, and they laid her to rest on a massive carved funerary slab in what is known today as the Margarita Tomb.

There are just two notable surviving chunks of Archean crust: the Barbeton greenstone in South Africa and the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Aruma Resources Limited flagship Slate Dam Project is a world - class exploration target over the highly prospective Norseman - Wiluna greenstone belt.

Aruma has been tuning a proven genetic gold model for West Australian greenstone hosted gold deposits developed by its MD over the last 30 years in worldwide and Australian locations.

Aruma aims to use recent developments in exploration science to aid the company with the pursuit for gold deposits in the Goldfields, in both undercover and undiscovered greenstone belts.

Gold Road Resources has added to the resources and reserves at its flagship Yamarna greenstone projects in Western Australia.

The area is part of the Yandal greenstone belt that supports Northern Star's Jundee and Gold Fields» Darlot mines.

An asteroid almost as wide as Rhode Island may have plowed into Earth 3.26 billion years ago, leaving a trace in South Africa's Barberton greenstone belt.

The Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt doesn't look like a battlefield.

Villa Adasa has a fourteen foot greenstone - tiled swimming pool and a traditional balé furnished with large daybeds perfect for those precious idle moments.

We have also found relatively large amounts of exotic pottery, obsidian, basalt and ornamental greenstone.

Visit a Greenstone (Jade) factory where craftsmen cut and polish greenstone cut from giant boulders to create fine jewellery.

Named after the native tree that shades the temple guarding its entrance, Villa Cemara comprises a cluster of one - and two - storey alang - alang thatched pavilions inspired by the compound - style of traditional Balinese family homes and arranged around a 14 - metre greenstone - tiled pool.

Located on the northwest corner of the Aronoff Center, this space features glass window walls that front the 7th and Walnut Street entrances, 24 - and 44 - foot - high ceilings, Kasota stone walls, and greenstone floors.

About Blog Roxgold is a gold mining company with its key asset, the high grade Yaramoko Gold Mine, located in the Houndé greenstone region of Burkina Faso, West Africa.

YCGP is located in one of the six major high - grade gold camps in Canada, the Yellowknife greenstone belt, which hosts the past - producing Con and Giant gold mines.

City and Cosmos includes nearly 200 works in various media, such as monumental sculpture made of volcanic stones; polychrome mural paintings; and smaller - scale objects made out of precious greenstones, obsidian, and ceramic.

The ancient greenstone trail then drops down to Pleasant Flat and Haast town ship.

From there you will travel through Haast and Mt Aspiring National Park following the Maori greenstone trail, emerging from the bush, you will come to the gorgeous Lake Wanaka, cross over the gushingClutha River, pass through the deeply devine Kawarau Gorge, to the shores of Lake Wakatipu and then arrive in the playground of the South Island, Queenstown.

Hokitika, the home of greenstone and treetops

In the temples and mortuary sites, most imported items (greenstones, ochre and some fragments of pottery) were secreted away in their inner recesses.

The Gears» background as archaeologists supplemented our sparse text as it enriched students» understanding of the valuable local marketing network in flint, obsidian, pipes, greenstone, and conch shells.

Proof you're in paradise: 16 airy villas, set along a jungle - swathed ravine, fitted with Venetian mirrors, hand - loomed rugs, and greenstone - lined plunge pools filled with mineral - rich spring waters, courtesy of the adjacent Arenal Volcano.

An ancient greenstone / pounamu trail, the route through the Haast Pass reveals superb watery vistas — rivers and waterfalls — before the rugged and sparsely populated West Coast Road (SH6) leads to the stunning Fox Glacier and the Franz Josef Glacier.

At Hokitika visit artisan craft galleries — Pounamu (greenstone) carving, glass blowing, wood and copper.

With visits to some naturally occcuring hot pools in the backblocks of the Westland National Park, gliding across the still waters of Milford Sound or sea kayaking at Okarito, tramping through West Coast Rainforest and beaches, and some local area galleries, ponamu (greenstone) carving and lolling around in front of log fires sipping mulled wine, you'll come out invigorated, pampered, and enriched with memories of an exciting, achingly beautiful, magical holiday from kiwi heaven.

At one extreme are erosion - resistant metamorphosed submarine basalts, greenstones, formed over 100 million years ago during the age of dinosaurs, and often forming headlands that defy the battering waves.