Most rock being mined has abundant iron sulfide minerals which oxidize when exposed to air and water.
The U.S. also has abundant raw materials, and considering demand for raw materials is declining, the price is also falling.
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The deal gives Goldcorp access to Andean's Cerro Negro gold assets in Argentina, which it says has abundant gold and silver.
Chicago, in contrast to New York City, has no rent control, and it has abundant hous-ing for all levels of income earners.
On Wednesday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told journalists that China has "indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and adjacent waters, which has abundant historical and legal grounds".
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Praise for man-of-the-match against Scotland Ahn Jung-Hwan has been abundant in the country's media.
Henry Mercer III: Here at Mercer Capital, we've been bullish on the U.S. stock market because pessimism has been so abundant, and little has changed to alter our optimistic outlook.
Some developers are now looking to generate energy by burning straw, which the UK has an abundant supply of and which, as a by-product of agricultural crops, does not have an impact on the food verses fuel debate currently engulfing the biofuel industry.
To the extent that this has made labour more abundant, and capital relatively scarcer, it has put downward pressure on wages relative to the return on capital.
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Management has consistently exhibited great skill in raising capital when investment opportunities are abundant and has demonstrated a consistent ability in investing capital at superior risk-adjusted rates of return.
Intervene Crowley did, of course, and that decision has earned her both abundant praise and abundant criticism.
Abundant research has shown that groups, especially if they include nonexperts, are better at making decisions than individuals.
Researchers say the shark, which lives in tropical water like the Gulf of Mexico, has never been very abundant.
Abundant liquidity has persuaded people to accept lower yields as a result.
For the first time in several generations, it has become clear that abundant domestic energy resources are within our reach, and that we have the technology to responsibly and safely extract it.
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The company has also won two power plant projects in Australia and Hughes predicted the company would capture 30% of that market, which despite abundant sunshine has been slow to embrace large-scale solar.
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The remarkable fact is that, even though the earth's population has more than trebled in a century, the best measure of the scarcity of resources price has fallen virtually throughout that time for just about everything extracted from or grown in the earth, yet has risen, in the form of wages, for the one thing that has become far more abundant: people.
One key reason: While Texas has created over 180, 000 generally well-paid energy jobs over the past decade, California, with abundant energy reserves, has generated barely one-tenth as many.
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The availability of labour and land has fallen, domestic capital is abundant, the local market is now understood to be among the most attractive in the world and sentiment has become more nationalistic and self-satisfied.
And like many Gulf oil producers Saudi Arabia has failed to use its abundant natural-gas supplies properly.
Abundant oil revenue has provided the Kuwaiti people with a good life.
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Natural gas has become a cheap and abundant domestic resource, too.
This skepticism, of course, comes in the wake of a financial crisis of historic proportions and abundant evidence that Sarbox has been an abject failure in cleaning up business.
Over the past 30 years, natural gas has been, at different times, abundant and cheap or scarce and expensive.
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But abundant and cheap shale gas has sped up that transition.
Thanks to abundant natural resources the economy has grown at an average of 7% a year for the past decade and only now shows some signs of flagging as commodities prices drop.
As we demonstrate this technology successfully in 2010, we believe we will have provided significant new tech to the world to utilize one of the most abundant resources that the world has in the form of coal and lignite.
And third, the most important technology progress in energy has occurred with hydrocarbons, making them more abundant, affordable and greener.
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