Sentences with phrase «used by mining companies»

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In the early days, the company's products were used mainly by mining and exploration firms in Canada's north, offering workers respite from extreme temperatures and conditions.

The company reported that North American testing of a 300 kg sample of spodumene concentrates from the mine had produced 99.99 % pure lithium hydroxide monohydrate, suitable for use by lithium ion battery manufacturers.

For example, back when she was an executive recruiter, a friend of mine used to buy high - end shoes for anyone who recommended a candidate that was accepted by a company who had an open position she was looking to fill.

The list of matters he wanted probed was wide ranging, but included the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, various dealings of the Clinton Foundation and several matters connected to the purchase of the Canadian mining company Uranium One by Russia's nuclear energy agency.

Currently, Hut 8 Mining is focused on ASIC chips which are used to mine Bitcoin, however, the company plans to roll out 20 megawatts of GPU chips by the end of 2018 to mine other «alt - coins».

Recently the Wisconsin State Journal asked Dennis Dresang, political science professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, about state Republicans» push to bar local governments from regulating everything from the sale of large sugary drinks to the use of explosives by sand mining companies.

He explained that the collaborators were companies who had their own money, and were doing something similar to what the Ministry was doing, whilst the PPP were organisations with their own funding, but wanted government to meet them half way by allowing them to mine and use the money to reclaim the land.

When we last talked to the 51 - year - old former pipe insulator, he had built his portfolio's net worth to about $ 4.7 million by using truckloads of borrowed cash to invest in energy income trusts and junior mining companies.

Using sophisticated software, companies hired by banks have started mining purchasing data to create specially designed offers.

This company is owned and operated by Grippy the uncle of Star Fox team member Slippy, the mining sites are being used to help the war effort against Andross and need to be protected from an army of robots that are attacking them.

Native Americans from one the poorest reservations in the country are using cell phones, Twitter and Facebook to throw a flash mob in Times Square to save a sacred site in Arizona stolen by a multi-national mining company in Australia.

By preventing private companies from mining and burning coal from federal lands, BLM can better protect our climate and public health, the waters we use, the air we breathe, and the wild places we enjoy.

The presidents welcomed: (i) a grant from the U.S. Trade and Development Agency to the China Power Engineering and Consulting Group Corporation to support a feasibility study for an integrated gasification combined cycle (I.G.C.C.) power plant in China using American technology, (ii) an agreement by Missouri - based Peabody Energy to invest and participate in GreenGen, a project of several major Chinese energy companies to develop a near - zero emissions coal - fired power plant, (iii) an agreement between G.E. and Shenhua Corporation to collaborate on the development and deployment of I.G.C.C. and other clean coal technologies; and (iv) an agreement between AES and Songzao Coal and Electric Company to use methane captured from a coal mine in Chongqing, China, to generate electricity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

While most coal databases used by the finance industry only cover around 100 companies, the GCEL provides key statistics on over 770 companies whose activities range from coal exploration and mining, coal trading and transport, to coal power generation and manufacturing of coal plants.

Nearly 40 years ago, it was a strip mine used by the Central Ohio Coal Company.

On June 15, 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an appeal in a case involving an Alberta worker who was fired by a mining company after testing positive for drug use.

The union movement in B.C. has scored a victory with the decision by a mining company to halt plans to create an open - pit coal mine using temporary foreign workers.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.

The company is the first mining entity to focus on Dash, a cryptocurrency that allows users to make instant, private payments online or in store using a secure open - source platform hosted by thousands of users around the world.

The vague facts dredged up by reporters confirm that Palantir has created a data mining system used extensively by law enforcement agencies and security companies to connect the dots between known criminals.

The company's main area of expertise extends to the mining of altcoins, using GPU cards, followed by the exchange of the same to other currencies or commodities, such as BitCoin, LiteCoin, gold and silver, among many other options.

Austrian company HydroMiner is one of the few mining companies that are planning to make mining more sustainable and profitable by using renewable energies.

The company says that it aims to effectively use its surplus electricity by mining cryptocurrencies with the output of its solar power generation plants.

In return for their contributions, investors were to be issued either Giga Watt tokens that would grant them exclusive rights to use the company's facilities rent - free for 50 years, or mining equipment and supplies to be deployed and set up by the on - site project team.

The effort, led by a hacking group within the country known as Andariel, reportedly took control of a server belonging a South Korean company in the summer of 2017 and used it to mine for Monero, a popular cryptocurrency that boasts privacy features that make it nearly impossible to trace the origins of transactions.

A London - based data mining and analytics firm Cambridge Analytica was responsible for acquiring the data which was then used by a company working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

The principles are intended to have a number of uses including: for the use of Indigenous communities wishing to develop their own policy on mining; to assist in framing issues for negotiation with mining companies; for incorporation in companies social responsibility policies; for use by auditors and assessors in developing benchmarks for company's social responsibility performance.

, sustainable development has been appropriated by some mining companies who use the term «sustainable development» to advocate profits and energy growth with little regard for its true meaning.

By performing ceremonies and reinforcing their relationships to the land and the Dreaming in the land, they were actually using very critical ways of engaging with the mining company that reinforced their difference, that ensured that they were not lost in a blended amorphous relationship.