The potassium compound is used in fertilisers and the UK's only current mine is at Boulby in North Yorkshire.
Resource Capital has not realized a penny from its investment in Molycorp, which aims to produce rare earth minerals (used in things like electric cars, wind turbines and iPods) at a previously shuttered mine in Mountain Pass, Calif.
Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed -- against reason -- that they could fly: Without that collective delusion sustaining them, they would instantly plummet to earth.
Which leads me to a line that a friend of mine, Scott Cronin, used to use in group sessions when someone was doing something obvious to everyone and not-cool.
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The mine also contains silver, gold and molybdenum (used in steel alloys)--a common combination found in the Peruvian Andes.
Physicists know this because of the unusual amounts of different types of uranium and other elements in the area, which was used by France as a uranium mine.
Methane trapped in the workings of a former Nottinghamshire coal mine could be used to create electricity.
Then, to cap it off, we find out that DHS, through the U.S. Army Forces Command, recently purchased and retrofitted 2, 717 Mine-Resistant Armored Protection (MRAP) vehicles formerly used for counterinsurgency in Iraq.
Jediaun used to control a gold mine near Dubie, and he gained control over several villages in this largely lawless part of the Congo.
"Like most families, mine used to sit down most nights to watch Walter Cronkite, " Moore said in an interview with Forbes.com last year.
For years it has used the Wright amendment as a cudgel to prevent competitors from moving in on its Dallas-Fort Worth gold mine.
For years it has used the 1979 law as a cudgel to prevent competitors from moving in on its Dallas-Fort Worth gold mine.
Coal's comeback may not spur new orders right away, in part because a wave of mine closures over the last decade has many producers shuffling their used equipment to new mines.
Toronto's Northland Power wants to convert an old open-pit iron ore mine in Ontario into a waterfall five times the height of Niagara Falls, which could be used to generate power.
When that didn't work, he used other people's money to buy a granite quarry in Texas, the rights to a near worthless tungsten mine in Nevada and a stake in a small discount brokerage in Long Island, N.
When that didn't work, he used other people's money to buy a granite quarry in Texas, the rights to a near worthless tungsten mine in Nevada and a stake in a small discount brokerage in Long Island, New York.
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