"It was for sale on a table next to some vegetables, " said Dr Timmins.
The discovery, made under Timmins, Ontario, is reported in this week's edition of the journal Nature.
Nicola Timmins and Danielle Masters followed suit with victory over Sarah Huarte and Annie Thurman (1 up).
Timmins Gold Corp shares are currently trading off about 18.8% on the day.
Timmins Gold Corp shares are currently trading down about 10.7% on the day.
Timmins Gold Corp shares are currently trading off about 5.9% on the day.
The Frankfield East deposit is located near Timmins, Ontario in the Porcupine mining district, also known as the Pipestone property.
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Crucially only 9% of the unemployed were out of a job for more than a year, compared with 30% today, Timmins notes.
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John Curley, a Timmins town councilor and former board member at the center, says it was a tough decision to sell the site.
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Dr Robert Timmins from the Wildlife Conservation Society saw that it was probably unknown to science and brought it to the attention of his peers.
Timmins trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker TMM.
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Tracy Hautanen, former manager of the center, now works for Ms. Twain's charity, Shania Kids Can, focused on helping youngsters in the Timmins area excel at school.
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Bragagnolo said Timmins seeks to build on its early success with a bigger budget and expects a major increase its in resource reserves over the next eight months.
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At the same time, Timmins' mining fortunes started looking brighter.
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His first job as a singer came at the Maple Leaf Hotel in Timmins, Ontario, when the barman agreed to give him a beer if he would play a few songs.
Timmins owns 100% of the open-pit heap leap operation.
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"This was like the mecca for Shania fans, " says Rene Gaudreau, a school principal in Timmins who volunteered at the center and who met his wife at the second annual Shania fan convention in 2004.
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He had brought Richard Timmins, vice president of sales finance at Cisco Systems, in on a successful hardware investment, and in return Timmins let Grady spend two unpaid months studying the problems Cisco had making its disparate internal Web applications work together.
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