Runway Rock May Be Mined for Riches
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By Charles Rabin and Curtis MorganMiami-Dade County leaders see a pot of gold at the end of a runway. It's a not-so-long, largely ignored airport runway in the far northwest corner of the county now used for drag racing instead of takeoffs.
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Companies that mimic Mother Nature could create investing opportunities.
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Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or some Spanish galleon but instead nature's bounty, rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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Some of the world's most famous meteorites are up for sale in a New York auction called the first of its kind.
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 23--As planes taxi down the runway at Destin Airport, bulldozers are digging their blade into mountains of dirt.  After three years of controversy, heated meetings and legal battles, Jay Odom's Destin Jet terminal is now under construction.
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Philip Durell takes a look at three gold mines for value investors.
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A layer of quartz grains found in an east Georgia kaolin mine have been traced to the impact of a giant asteroid that crashed near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago.
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Ready for takeoff More modern, more art
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Investors should hunt in the not-too-far North.
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In a mining market awash with cash and  parched for discoveries, there are rock-solid reasons why the  junior mining sector should consolidate, but ego and economics  could get in the way of such deals.
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Opportunity, one of NASA&#39;s two Mars rovers, struggled to get up the side of Endurance Crater. It spun its wheels, digging deep holes in the stadium-size crater&#39;s &quot;sand trap.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine.  It's not sunken treasure or a Spanish galleon but rather nature's bounty: rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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Science & environment: Precious rocks set to sell for thousands as Bonhams hold first auction of meteorites.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or some Spanish galleon but instead nature's bounty, rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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A select group of rich tourists may be blasting into space within a few years in a craft that looks like a cross between a corporate jet and a toy bomber.
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Tomorrow's huge winners are out there today. The trick is finding them.
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This firm peddles its sought-after wares to the world's great miners.