Ammonium nitrate, a solid fertilizer composed of ammonia and nitrogen, is also a component of explosives widely used in mining.
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But he put his training to work, filling empty iron- and copper-ore ships with lime and selling it to mines that exported the ore (lime is used to neutralize acid used in mining).
Founded in 2004 and grown organically to 25, 000 users across almost a hundred organizations, Yuster stressed repeatedly that no personal data is captured or used in the mining process.
It cleans metal and is used in research labs and mining.
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Investigators determined that Marin had ordered the quick-acting poison -- typically used in agriculture and gold mining -- from a California-based company and that it was delivered by FedEx to his home in 2011.
The strip mining machines used in Alberta come from a Caterpillar plant in Decatur, he said.
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Charbonneau said they looked at the model used by Mining Association of Canada, which was a partner in the event, to stimulate interest in the mining industry.
Its products are used in the construction, road building, mining, forestry, energy, transportation and material-handling industries.
Mining the moon for fuel used in nuclear fusion reactors is among NASA's 200-plus set of mission goals and could precipitate another reason for other countries and private investors to join future lunar exploration.
"We looked at autonomous operations of equipment as being the same type of technology that could be used on the moon as well as in a mining application, " said Michele Blubaugh, manager of Intelligence Technology Services at Caterpillar.
He then used the money to buy stakes in two coal-mining ventures in Indonesia.
The tightening of America's trade rules has resulted in a virtual standstill in mining in the volatile eastern part of the country, until recently the source of rare metals used by American manufacturers.
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Vermont Country Store invested in data mining software because they hired somebody who had experience in the financial services industry, and she used the software to demonstrate that she could find more responsive customers for their mailings.
People survive either from agriculture or from small-scale mining of gold or colombo-tantalite, an ore used in mobile phones that makes its way to the outside world through Uganda or Rwanda.
As well as mining bitcoins, PCs enrolled in ZeroAccess were also being used to poison search results - to cause users to unwittingly click on booby-trapped web pages - or fraudulently click on adverts to generate revenue.
Much of the violence has been financed with profits from the mining of metals such as tin, coltan, tantalum and gold - all used in electronic appliances.
It is no coincidence that mining and energy firms are active in health: they are, after all, used to thinking about the environment in similar terms.
Sweden's Sandvik (6.6, SDVKY) fell 70% in the bear market as the recession whacked sales of its metal-cutting, mining and construction tools as well as specialty alloys based on titanium and zirconium, used in thousands of applications like boiler tubes and flanges.
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