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Economic Future Of Afghanistan Grounded In Copper
March 19, 2007 — A British Geological Survey project funded by the UK Department for International Development has been assisting the Afghanistan Geological Survey over the past two years with scanning, digitising ... > full story -
Mercury Contamination Of Fish Warrants Worldwide Public Warning
March 8, 2007 — The health risks posed by mercury contaminated fish is sufficient to warrant issuing a worldwide general warning to the public, especially children and women of childbearing age, to be careful about ... > full story -
Inhabitants Of Columbus' First Settlement Were Desperate To Find Metals, Study Finds
February 23, 2007 — A new study provides evidence that the last inhabitants of Christopher Columbus' first settlement desperately tried to extract silver from lead ore, originally brought from Spain for other uses, just ... > full story -
Mining A Narrow Vein Of Research
February 22, 2007 — University of Queensland research is helping to make narrow-vein mines more ... > full story -
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'Heat Mining' Backed In Geothermal Energy Report
January 22, 2007 — A comprehensive new MIT-led study of the potential for geothermal energy within the United States has found that mining the huge amounts of heat that reside as stored thermal energy in the Earth's ... > full story -
Diamonds From Outer Space: Geologists Discover Origin Of Earth's Mysterious Black Diamonds
January 9, 2007 — If indeed "a diamond is forever," the most primitive origins of Earth's so-called black diamonds were in deep, universal time, geologists have discovered. Black diamonds came from none other than ... > full story -
New Sensor Simplifies Efforts To Safeguard Drinking Water From Cyanide
January 1, 2007 — A new method for detecting cyanide in drinking water and other sources offers numerous advantages over cumbersome existing technology, scientists report in an article scheduled for the Jan. 1 issue ... > full story -
Pinpoint Sound Beams Hunt Buried Land Mines
December 27, 2006 — Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory are developing a highly pinpointed sound beam that can detect buried land mines from a safe distance. The new beam will use sound to seek out land mines like a ... > full story -
Nanoorganisms: Probe Of Acid Mine Drainage Turns Up Unsuspected Virus-Sized Archaea
December 22, 2006 — UC Berkeley scientists Jill Banfield and Brett Baker have found some of the smallest organisms known in a sample of slime from a California mine. Their discovery proves the value of a technique ... > full story -
Scientists Find Safer Ways To Detect Uranium Minerals
November 26, 2006 — The threat of "dirty" bombs and plans to use nuclear power as an energy source have driven Queensland University of Technology scientists to discover a new, safer way of detecting radioative ... > full story
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