Exposed to metals and minerals, energy products, and agricultural products, Glencore is a massive corporation spanning much of the commodities complex.
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Johnson is retiring at the end of the month after 18 years managing the USAA Precious Metals and Minerals Fund (USAGX, ) based in San Antonio.
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Already, most of the shipments through Murmansk's Barents Sea port to the north or Kandalaksha's White Sea port to the south is made up of metals and minerals, and the bulk is set to grow.
The billionaires are hoping that the real financial returns, which are decades away, will come from mining asteroids for platinum group metals and rare minerals.
He bequeathed to his son two precious gifts: a love of language, and a passion for the raw materials of life and industry timber, such as western red cedar, metals, stones and minerals.
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These geomicrobiological changes can capture or release toxic metals and radionuclides attached to minerals making these interactions vital to our understanding of environmental contamination and also to exploit potential bioremediation techniques to treat contaminants.
Over millions of years this created an oxygen-rich atmosphere that rapidly removed electrons from minerals near the surface, creating rust out of iron and forming thousands of new minerals from other metals like nickel, copper and uranium.
As the planets congealed, gravitational forces and particle collisions created the high temperatures necessary to melt metals floating around in space, and minerals began their diversification.
That was the year the government was formulating a draft mining charter, proposing that companies be at least 26% black-owned in order to get a government mining license. (The draft became law in 2005.) Since then Motsepe has diversified, swallowing up or forming partnerships with several other old mining companies and adding a swath of minerals: precious metals (platinum and its cousins), nickel, chrome, iron, manganese and coal.
Bolivia, which is a big exporter of metals, including silver, tin and zinc, currently exports most minerals through Chile.
Asteroids could yield precious minerals such as gold, platinum and rare-Earth metals.
Vancouver, Canada-based precious metals mining company Wheaton River Minerals (amex: WHT - news - people ) and San Francisco-based civil engineering and design firm URS (nyse: URS - news - people ) both remained on the top buy list from two weeks ago.
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