Gold Rush Plunges Undersea as Miners Scour Pacific Update1 Bloomberg.com
Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- David Heydon says the rock he dredged from a mile beneath the sea off Papua New Guinea looked like nothing more than a dull-brown fire hydrant. Inside were veins of copper and gold worth $300.
Gold Rush Plunges Undersea as Miners Scour Pacific Correct Bloomberg.com
(Corrects company in 10th paragraph whose shares declined.) Oct. 3 (Bloomberg) -- David Heydon says the rock he dredged from a mile beneath the sea off Papua New Guinea looked like nothing more than a dull-brown fire hydrant. Inside were veins of copper and gold worth $300.
Two US scientists win Nobel medicine prize ABS-CBNNEWS.com
STOCKHOLM - Americans Andrew Fire and Craig Mello won the 2006 Nobel prize for medicine for gene silencing by double-stranded RNA, the Nobel Assembly of Stockholm's Karolinska Institute said on Monday.
Underwater ore draws miners International Herald Tribune
Two companies exploring the South Pacific seas with new remote-controlled robots are betting that dull-brown rocks with veins of copper and gold will start an underwater gold rush for billions of dollars lining the ocean floor, reversing the prospects for a method of mining that has never been economical.
Green By the Grace of God RedNova
By Tim Thornton tim.thornton@roanoke.com 381-1669 FROST, W.Va. -- It doesn't look like the nerve center of a political, social and spiritual movement. Hummingbirds hover at a feeder above Allen Johnson's head. Tootie, a sociable golden retriever, is tied near his feet.
Protestors storm Palestinian government HQ ABS-CBNNEWS.com
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Hundreds of Palestinian protestors opposed to governing Islamist movement Hamas set fire to government headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah Sunday, an AFP correspondent who witnesses the event said.
Manchin: Change emerging Bluefield Daily Telegraph
BLUEFIELD — “While some refer to the oil risks and challenges the nation faces as an ‘energy crisis,’ this is misleading. What we face is the ominous prospect of crippling oil and liquid fuel shortages and soaring, volatile prices.”
DISSIDENT UZBEK JOURNALIST REPORTEDLY DETAINED IN ASYLUM Radio Free Europe: Radio Library
Jamshid Karimov, a dissident Uzbek journalist who is also the nephew of President Islam Karimov, is being held in a psychiatric hospital in Samarkand, according to the journalist's family, uznews.net reported on September 25.
OKC Miner’s Memorial: Ceremony held to remember the lost and celebrate those living Daily American
“We salute them, we honor them and we thank them.” Mayor Larry Warren opened up the floor for a number of emotional speeches Thursday at the Old King Coal's annual Coal Miner's Memorial.
Local News Linton Daily Citizen
The 2006 Dugger Coal Festival - with the theme “A Celebration of Our Mining Heritage” - will kickoff Friday night and continue through Sept. 30 - a nine-day event that will feature something for everyone, no matter what age.

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It begins in a West Virginia coal camp in 1980. A 32-year-old mining engineer named simply notify us within the first 30 days and you won't pay a cent.
Mine Fire, Centralia, Pennsylvania
Some trace it back to careless trash incineration in an open pit mine igniting a coal vein. The fire crawled, insidiously, along coal-rich deposits far from
Coal Combustion
Since the 1960s particulate precipitators have been used by US coal-fired power plants to retain significant amounts of fly ash rather than letting it
USS Maine (ACR-1) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Maine (ACR-1), the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 1.1 The facts; 1.2 External mine theory; 1.3 Coal bunker fire theory
NETL: History of US Coal Use
By 1736, several “coal mines” were shown on a map of the upper Potomac River In 1882 Edison built the first practical coal-fired electric generating


Coal Combustion
Since the 1960s particulate precipitators have been used by US coal-fired power plan to retain significant amoun of fly ash rather than letting it
USS Maine (ACR-1) Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USS Maine (ACR-1), the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 1.1 The fac; 1.2 External mine theory; 1.3 Coal bunker fire theory
NETL: History of US Coal Use
By 1736, several “coal mines” were shown on a map of the upper Potomac River In 1882 Edison built the first practical coal-fired electric generating
Centralia Pennsylvania Photography Underground Mine Fires
Over 44 years and 40 million dollars later the fire still burns through old coal mines and veins under the town and the surrounding hillsides on several
Pruned: Helltown USA
First bid to extinguish the fire was $175.” If it weren't for the signs warning us of the coal mine fire, I'd probably guess we're witnessing the birth
KY Coal Fac History of Coal
1758, First commercial US coal shipment. 1792, Issac Shelby becomes the first Governor of Kentucky (1792-1796). 1820, First commercial mine,
What Is Coal? History of Coal Coal Mining
North American Indians used coal long before the first settlers conveyors if the coal mine is close by. Ideally, coal-fired power
EH.Net Encyclopedia: US Coal Industry in the Nineth Century
Throughout the antebellum period, coal mining firms tended to be small and labor intensive. The seams that were first worked in the anthracite fields of