Sentences with phrase «on alluvial»

Work continues rapidly on the alluvial fan.

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Shares in Perth - based junior Lucapa Diamond Company have surged on news it has signed a 35 - year licence to mine alluvial diamonds at the Lulo diamond concession in Angola.

The appellation encompasses more than 6,500 acres of prime vineyards, planted on the elevated terraces and alluvial fans of the Santa Lucia mountain range.

Dr Bawumia know very well that part of the reasons why the Zimbabwean people are languishing in poverty with low infrastructure development in many parts of its rural zones is this wholesale handing out of the country's mineral resources over the last three decades costing the country millions of jobs.Is Dr Bawumia aware that Zimbabwe has runout of alluvial diamonds at a time when the country has been allowed to sell its gems on the global market.

On the environment, an Akufo - Addo government, he said, would implement a policy that will lead to the effective management of forest reserves, the recovery of millions of acres of land devastated by open - cast and alluvial mining, and the protection of water bodies, stressing that «protecting our environment is a necessity, not an option».

Here we see a vast alluvial cone between the Altun and Kunlun mountains on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert.

This dovetails with orbital images hinting that the rover landed in an alluvial fan, a feature that is formed on Earth by water flows.

On Earth, the most reliable way to measure the ages of alluvial fans is by radiocarbon dating — but that requires organic carbon, which we haven't yet found on MarOn Earth, the most reliable way to measure the ages of alluvial fans is by radiocarbon dating — but that requires organic carbon, which we haven't yet found on Maron Mars.

Virtually all the action during previous decades had focused on southern Iraq, in the low - lying alluvial plain that merges with the Persian Gulf.

The site was on a river called the Çarsamba; around it lay marsh, fertile alluvial plain, and woods and steppe that were probably teeming with big game.

In fact, it is alluvial silt that washed down from the surrounding mountains and deposited on the shores.

For millions of years diamonds have been carried to the Atlantic by the Orange River, creating one of the richest alluvial diamond fields in the world on the West Coast.

The hotel sits on the edge of what was the richest alluvial goldfield in the world.

Continue by coach past vineyards built on rich alluvial plains, which produce world class wines, to Nelson.

Mui Ca Mau, Viet Nam, on the southern tip of the country, demonstrates ecological succession systems on new alluvial lands.

Living many years at the margin of old logging, more recent logging, a ridgeline overlooking an alluvial valley where a small city is growing and similar cities extend to the horizon in inland coastal range mountains in CA, I am reminded often of the coolness in the tall forest contrasting to the heat generated on sunny days where forests are discontinuous because of logging or absent because of urban growth.

Humans have advanced as resources have become available; old human civilizations expanded on fertile alluvial plains that provided nutrients and irrigated water for their crops.

Hyperion is not just tall, but a true survivor, living on a hillside, rather than the more - typical alluvial flat, with 96 percent of the surrounding area having been logged of its original coast redwood growth.

It is not unusual to see dust devils on the desert flats and alluvial fans.

E] if Colorado canyon alluvial deposits say that: for certain period in the past was more rain, or less — for the Original Swindlers, that was telling the temp on the WHOLE planet...?

We own the alluvial gold deposit in the Amur Region of Russia, and have obtained the necessary permits and licenses required to operate a gold mine on the site.»