Sentences with phrase «ore deposits»

TheWA government's unexplained rejection of Cazaly Resources Ltd's claim to the Shovelanna iron ore deposit in the Pilbara could deflect investment from the state's resources sector and, for the first time, raised the real spectre of sovereign risk.

The bauxite industry's significance to Guinea's economy has grown in recent years after development of huge iron ore deposits in its forested interior stalled when global commodities prices crashed in 2014.

The state government has given its tick of approval for Rio Tinto to develop more iron ore deposits at the mining giant's Western Turner Syncline operation near Tom Price.

The transfer of mass resulting from basaltic alteration affects the geochemistry of seawater2 and is responsible for the formation of ore deposits on and beneath the seafloor3.

Billionaire Sanjeev Gupta has been picking up iron ore deposits which China steelmakers left behind in the last boom.

Researchers previously suspected the copper came from known ore deposits 100 kilometers or less from the site of the Iceman's demise.

Conventional wisdom has told us that uranium within ore deposits is mostly found in the form of uraninite, a crystalline mineral.

A model of this kind is critical to providing early warnings for people living in volcanically active areas, understanding geothermal energy potential, and exploring the relationship between magma composition and metal - rich ore deposits.

PERTH - based Titan Resources NL has completed construction of a $ 2.23 million pilot plant for bacterial leaching of its Mt Sholl nickel - copper ore deposit in the Pilbara region of WA.

By: Dylan Slater 23rd September 2016 Limpopo - based platinum mine Booysendal Platinum — a subsidiary of platinum group metals producer Northam Platinum — recently accessed the Booysendal South ore deposit as part of its expansion of mining capacity at the Booysendal concession, which required it to employ an alternative conveyor... →

And yet, it is an amazing ore deposit, which in time should yield tremendous value.

Carew has mineral exploration experience on three continents, Asia, Australia and North America, with specific expertise in a variety of uranium, base and precious metal ore deposits.

Open pit mining contractor MACA has mobilised the primary mining fleet at Matilda's M10 open pit, while underground mining contractor Pybar has started development of the high grade Golden Age ore deposit.

However an examination of other articles by the same author in Ex Nihilo reveals that, to Snelling 1, everything geological (Ayers Rock, Mt Isa ore deposits, Bass Strait oil and gas, Queensland coal deposits, Great Barrier Reef, etc.,) can be explained as the result of Noah's year - long Flood.

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.

The Norwegian ore deposits in Sulitjelma, Kongsberg and Røros were underwater 500 million years ago.

«I've worked as a geologist studying ore deposits in the area for more than 30 years.

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.

Formation of metallic ore deposits are predicted to accompany the underwater hydrothermal activity, so the team also plan to evaluate these undersea resources.

Some of the materials leached from the underground are deposited on the seabed and form ore deposits that may be of economically interest.

The finding provides an inexpensive, excavation - free way to narrow the search for ore deposits.

In this study, the scientists analysed samples from the Witwatersrand ore deposits with high - resolution scanning - and transmission - electron microscopes, and the processed their data using novel 2D and 3D software.

Individual ore deposits are spread out in thin layers over areas up to 10 by 10 km and contain more gold than any other gold deposit in the world.

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.

Why hundreds of other uranium ore deposits did not become natural reactors is a mystery.

Coral Highland ore deposits also spawn Machalite, Aquacore, Coral Cryastis, and other ore types.

In the race for the atomic bomb in the lead up to World War II, the Allies had effectively secured most of the world uranium ore deposits under their power.

The introduction of the techniques of copper - working may have stimulated the Egyptians to gain control of Sinai and the Arabian desert where in historical times their main ore deposits were mined.

The skeleton key is needed to unlock another mining area for players, which gives iridium ore deposits.

These strategic industries, he revealed, include an iron and steel industry, which will exploit Ghana's iron ore deposits at Oppon Manso and Sheini, near Tamale, and facilitate the manufacture of machine parts and equipment.

Borch, working on an unrelated experiment studying the composition of uranium at mined and unmined sites in Wyoming, surmised that this biogenic (of biological origin), non-crystalline uranium might occur naturally within ore deposits.

Microbes in Kabuno Bay metabolize iron and grow at rates high enough to indicate their ancient equivalents deposited some of the world's largest sedimentary iron ore deposits.

This is a noteworthy goal considering the fact that Japan doesn't have coal or iron ore deposits of any significance.

The element later turned up in uranium ore deposits, where natural radioactivity can produce traces of plutonium.

US$ 2.4 billion has been committed to develop the Mesa A and Brockman 4 iron ore deposits in the Pilbara in Western Australia..

BC Iron's undeveloped Buckland iron ore deposit is set to fall back under the management of Alwyn Vorster, the former Iron Ore Holdings boss.

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences» geology collection contains an excellent representation of the gemstones, minerals, and ore deposits of the state of North Carolina with approximately 7,500 specimens.

With Government determined to exploit the country's bauxite and iron ore deposits, with the Ghana Integrated Bauxite and Aluminum Development Authority set to spearhead this, President Akufo - Addo was delighted about the progress made in a novel technology being promoted by UMaT, which involves the use of plastic waste to upgrade bauxite ore to yield 90 % alumina, as against the present grade of 40 % to 45 %.

In order to determine its origin, Italian scientists took a tiny sample from the blade and compared the proportion of lead isotope — a kind of «finger print» of the ore deposits which remains unchanged in any objects subsequently made from the ore — with the corresponding data from numerous mineral deposits in Europe and the entire Mediterranean region.

A satellite trio is set to unravel the mysteries of our planet's inner dynamo, and could reveal mineral and ore deposits

«So far, we only know the surface of the ore deposits at hydrothermal vents.

Although background concentrations of gold in vegetation are typically less than 2 parts per billion (ppb), dried leaves from the trees growing above the ore deposit — but not those 200 meters away — had gold levels up to 80 ppb, says team member Mel Lintern, a geochemist at CSIRO's Earth Science and Resource Engineering division in Kensington, Australia.

The microbes metabolize iron and grow at rates high enough to indicate their ancient equivalents were capable of depositing some of the world's largest sedimentary iron ore deposits, known as banded iron formations.

Researchers from the University of Tübingen have been able to show for the first time how microorganisms contributed to the formation of the world's biggest iron ore deposits.

FeOOH is found in iron ore deposits that exist in bogs, so it could easily move into the deep Earth at plate tectonic boundaries, as could samples of ferric oxide, Fe2O3, which along with water will also form the pyrite - like iron oxide under deep lower mantle conditions.