s a r a h b e l f i e l d
reporter & writer, freelance
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Mining and exploration:
- Equinox Minerals
nears debt drawdown time
(ResourceInvestor.com, 11 July 2007)
EMERGING copper producer Equinox Minerals has put a final touch on financing for its 100%-held Lumwana copper project in Zambia by securing a credit facility for contingent costs... - Centamin sees
further gold resource growth ahead
(ResourceInvestor.com, 29 June 2007)
PERTH-based outfit Centamin Egypt expects resource figures to climb again at its 9-million-ounce Sukari gold deposit in Egypt, where hopes are for a start to production in 2008... - Smart drill rods
high in fibre
(Australian Mining, November 2006)
WORD could be out in December on whether the Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) will partly fund a proposed two-year collaborative project between CSIRO and industry that sets out to road-test fibre composite drill rods... - Surplus looking
likely this year
(Gold & Minerals Gazette, May 2006)
WITH platinum prices essentially on the up and up throughout 2005, all eyes are on what the precious metal will be doing in the year ahead...
Oil and gas:
- Arrow now
unrecognisable giant
(Oil & Gas Gazette, September 2006)
THOSE market-watchers lucky enough to have been away on an extended winter vacation could be forgiven for barely recognising Arrow Energy upon return... - Frontier areas
still under-explored: APPEA
(Oil & Gas Gazette, April 2006)
IF SHE were pressed to choose, Belinda Robinson's pet issue for the Australian oil and gas industry would be the need to increase exploration in frontier areas... - PNG pipeline
becomes piggy in the middle
(Oil & Gas Gazette, April 2006)
THE tit-for-tat bidding game between AGL and Alinta has seen the Papua New Guinea to Queensland pipeline project caught in the crossfire, thanks to conditions Alinta attached to its scrip-based takeover offer for AGL shares not already owned... - Oil Search
expects lower production
(Oil & Gas Gazette, April 2006)
FOLLOWING an almost doubling of after-tax net profits to US$200.2 million for calendar 2005, Oil Search (OSH) is expecting oil production to drop slightly in 2006 to between 11 million and 11.5 million barrels...
Science and technology:
- Magpies turn
their cheek on junk food
(Australasian Science, September 2006)
SOMETHING magpies have in common with humans is that a long-term diet of junk food could be dangerous to their health... - Climate change
clashes continue
(Oil & Gas Gazette, April 2006)
IN DELIVERING his sixth blueprint speech in early March, Federal Opposition leader Kim Beazley said the only environmentally sustainable energy policy for Australia was investing in two transformations... - Tiny particles:
Big risks
(Australasian Science, October 2005)
MUCH remains unknown about the health effects of some nanotechnology products. With nano-products already on the retail market — including stain-resistant clothes, transparent sunscreens and moisturisers containing nano-sized spheres — commercial progress is arguably outpacing medical knowledge at this point... - You can count on
me
(Cosmos, Issue 5, 2005)
LOVE them or hate them, calculators have forever changed our expectations. We now want answers to mathematical problems as fast as you can say "square root"...
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