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One of the World's Largest Gold Producers Gold Fields Lists on the Dubai International Financial Exchange

Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields), one of the world’s largest gold producers, listed on the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX). Gold Fields is the first African, South African and gold mining company to ...

2 Nov 2006

Dynatec Secure Funding for Nickel and Cobalt Project

Dynatec Corporation is pleased to announce the signing of a shareholders agreement for the Ambatovy Nickel Project, under which Dynatec has been appointed Project operator and will retain a 40% ownership interest. A 27.5...

2 Nov 2006

Model for Determining Metal-Induced Reconstruction of Compound Semiconductor Surfaces

CAS physicists have proposed a generalized electron-counting model to serve as the guiding principle in understanding metal-induced surface reconstruction of compound semiconductors. The work was reported in Phys. Rev. L...

26 Oct 2006

Timken Gains Major New Mining Customer in China

The Timken Company has announced a new customer in China, Jixi Coal Mine Machinery Company (Jixi CMMC), one of the country's largest manufacturers of underground mining machinery. Timken supplies its tapered roller b...

From The Timken Co. 26 Oct 2006

Norway Plans Field Laboratory for CO2 Storage

Norway could soon have one of the world’s first field laboratories for studies of CO2 storage in bedrock. Seven Norwegian research groups, led by the research organisation SINTEF, are to find out whether a land-...

26 Oct 2006

Scientists Create Working Invisibility Cloak

A team led by scientists at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has demonstrated the first working "invisibility cloak." The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow around a "hidden"...

23 Oct 2006

New Method for Determining Behavior of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules

University of Chicago chemist David Mazziotti has developed a new method for determining the behavior of electrons in atoms and molecules, a key ingredient in predicting chemical properties and reactions. He presented th...

17 Oct 2006

Scientists Polarize Particles into Intricate Shapes and Unique Structures

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created polarized, spherical particles that spontaneously self-assemble into clusters with specific shapes and distributions of electric charge. The pola...

17 Oct 2006

RUSAL, SUAL, Glencore Merger Will Result in the Worlds Largest Aluminium and Alumina Producer

RUSAL, the world’s third largest aluminium producer, SUAL Group, one of the world’s top ten aluminium producers, and Glencore International AG, the Swiss natural resources group announce today that they have ...

10 Oct 2006

Sandvik Completes Acquisition of Chilean Implementos Mineros

Sandvik announced on 18 September an agreement with Implementos Mineros SA (Implemin), Chile, covering the acquisition of the company and its operations. The acquisition is now completed and Implemin will be consolida...

3 Oct 2006

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