Because milling gold ore is an energy-intensive process, lower energy prices help to reduce operating costs.
As a Southern belle called Imabelle, Robin Givens carries both the MacGuffin a trunk filled with gold ore and the film.
The Company has interests in mining for aluminum, borax, coal, copper, gold, iron ore, lead, silver, tin, uranium, zinc, titanium, dioxide feedstock, diamonds, talc and zircon.
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What about the Bre-X scandal of 1997--when promises of a mountain of gold in Borneo turned out to be a few ore samples salted with gold dust?
So far, more effort has been spent on collecting data than using it profitably, but more retailers and manufacturers are now learning how to extract gold from the informational ore.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that the corporation hoped to exploit deposits of iron ore, gold and copper in other parts of the Tanzania to help fund its project.
But there are also some big differences, such as the composition of their commodity exports: New Zealand's top exports are dairy, meat and forestry products, whereas Australia's top three are coal, iron ore and gold.
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That was in 1994, when Friedland was best known by critics as "Toxic Bob, " after another of his ventures, Galactic Resources, tried to develop a gold mine near Summitville, Colorado using heap leaching, an extraction process that dips ore in cyanide to extract gold.
That was in 1994, when Friedland was best known by critics as "Toxic Bob, " after another of his ventures, Galactic Resources, tried to develop a gold mine near Summitville, Colo. using heap leaching, an extraction process that dips ore in cyanide to extract gold.
It has oil, gold, chromium, iron ore and a host of other minerals.
Guinea has a third of the world's bauxite reserves, as well as gold, diamonds, iron ore and vast hydroelectric potential.
With its proximity to Asia and mother lode of gold, oil, iron ore and coal, Australia has enjoyed uninterrupted growth for the past 13 years.
The grab by Argentina for control its national oil company, YPF, should throw the fear of God into investors round the globe about the way revenue-hungry politicians are trying to cash in on the global boom in natural resources like oil, gold, copper, iron ore.
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Since 2007 Galantas Gold Corporation, a Canadian firm, has been working what is currently Britain's only gold-producing mine at Omagh, in Northern Ireland, shipping the ore to Canada and running a small gold-jewellery operation.
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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.
Mining companies are running into a situation similar to 2007-2008 when a wide range of producers such as gold, copper, coal and iron ore are all trying to develop projects simultaneously, Tankard pointed out.
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It started with gold years ago and now embraces copper, iron ore, coal and grains.
They want to provide a series of incentives to mine owners and firms which make gold as a by-product of smelting copper ore.
Commodities currently mined in the region include nickel, cobalt, platinum group metals, zinc, iron ore, and ilmenite, as well as gold.
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Each dot represents either a gold and precious metals project or a base metals and iron ore project.
Some growth has been companies processing lower-grade ore that may not have been feasible at lower gold prices, analysts said.
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Out there in the desolate, lunar like desert of northern Chile is a mineral-rich ore called caliche -- once known as white gold.
One other major hurdle: Even if Ivanhoe strikes it big and can pull copper and gold out at a reasonable cost, how will it get the ore to market?
Massive ore deposits of copper, lead, zinc, silver, gold and other metals formed in this way.
Bits of gold add value to almost anything, high indium values increase the worth of zinc ore and so on.
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The Marlin mine produced quarterly record output of 95, 000 ounces of gold and 2, 291, 100 ounces of silver in the July-September period, fueled by higher ore grades and tons of ore milled.
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Consider, gold is no more volatile than other metals yet it carries at least a 20 percent premium over copper, iron ore and coal equities.
Revenue hit a record high even though gold-mining output was down from the year-ago quarter due to factors such as mine sequencing and lower ore grades in certain mines.
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