During that period Royal Gold pursued an exploration project in Nevada that would later transform the company.
Late last year, a diverse coalition of activists launched a campaign against Talisman Energy of Canada, which is involved in a joint-venture oil exploration project in Sudan.
The exploration project, BP's biggest worldwide, will take years.
The session was not completely negative for mining as Gerald Panneton, president and chief executive officer of Detour Gold, described how he and his team brought the Detour Lake gold mine in Ontario to production from an exploration project.
Before Curiosity, NASA's big rover project was the Mars Exploration Rover Mission: two golf-cart-sized rovers called Spirit and Opportunity.
TomaGold is a Canadian-based exploration company focused on its Monster Lake Project.
The project and the incubation and the exploration we did on Courier I view as super important.
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Yamana said they had begun the evaluation of exploration and development plans for the Cerro Moro project, located in the Santa Cruz Province, Argentina.
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Apart from the direct expenses in the clean up and compensation for those affected, the biggest costs could be greater federal and regulatory scrutiny at a time when the industry is collectively trying to project the image that oil and gas exploration is environmentally safe.
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ExoMars is a challenging, difficult but tremendously important project if we ever want to have a robotic exploration programme in our neighbourhood in the Solar System.
The cost structure of the project, he says, is about the same as current exploration.
Whether such terrifying sums materialise will depend partly on the financial terms of Arctic exploration and the Kremlin's flexibility over the tax status of the project.
They are, depending on your perspective, either pursuing the ultimate vanity project or are on the forefront of a new age of exploration that harkens back to the great adventurers of centuries past when men (and they were nearly all men) ventured into the vast blank spots on the world map.
The SU atmosphere of innovation, ideation and intellectual exploration created by a diverse and talented student and faculty body is key to team project success.
In his "Space Project, " Vincent pays homage to the world's great centers of space exploration and study: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, various observatories and antenna arrays, and, most recently, the Ariane Space Center in French Guiana.
The movies cover a range of topics, from Javier Bardem's passion project Sons of the Clouds addressing human rights in the Western Sahara, to an exploration of the trials and tribulations of the creative process through the eyes of artist Wayne White in Beauty is Embarrassing.
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Woodside, which started life as a small exploration firm in the mid-1950s, has a 53.85% controlling stake in the project.
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