Gold mining in volcanic Russian wilds
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Gold miners on  Russia&#39;s Kamchatka peninsula contend with volcanic eruptions,  floods and poor infrastructure, but high metal prices mean the  hard work pays off.
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LONDON, December 20  - Russiaâs mining giant Norilsk Nickel announced today that it has begun preliminary talks with two South African companies, namely Gold Fields (GFI.
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Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine.
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One Alaska volcano has been emitting small bursts of ash for three weeks and another is being shaken by tremors, indicating that eruptions are possible at both within weeks, seismologists said on Monday.
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UST-BOLSHERETSK, Russia  - For a rare visitor to the volcanic Kamchatka peninsula in Russia's Far East, no other custom reveals more about the local economy, lifestyle and environment than salmon poaching.
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Fire broke out on Thursday at a gold   mine in Russia's Eastern Siberia owned by Highland Gold,   trapping more than 30 miners while others crawled to safety   through a tunnel.
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THE multimillion-dollar investment by Norilsk Nickel, the Russian mining giant, in Gold Fields could be set to give the group a 10 per cent stake in the worldâs biggest gold mining company.
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One day, climate change could  cost the earth. For now, it is a nice little earner for Russian  hunter Alexander Vatagin.
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FRESH rumours that Norilsk of Russia is poised to take over Gold Fields have excited market watchers, but so far there has been no confirmation of this.
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In late June of 1908, a fireball exploded above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska,  Siberia, flattening more than 800 square miles of trees. Researchers think a meteor was responsible for the devastation, but neither its fragments nor any impact craters have been discovered.
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Last Wednesday, at the stroke of noon, one of the most lucrative prizes in Russia&#39;s oil industry went under the hammer. Russia&#39;s Federal Property Fund, which controls sales of state assets, auctioned a 7.6
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GUIYU, China  - Guiyu is a modern day gold rush town. But instead of panning for gold in babbling streams, workers shift through piles of broken old computer parts in acrid smelling shacks, smelting down parts with crude equipment to extract valuable metals like gold and copper.
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By Tony Glover, The Business, London  Sep. 10--Work being carried out in Russia by companies such as Golden  Telecom and western European operators such as Pipex, herald a revolution in  wireless communications.
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MOSCOW. Sept 5 (Interfax) - It is necessary to partially amend Russia's legislation on the use of mineral resources, said Russian presidential aide Igor Shuvalov. "All legislation having to do with natural resources is very hard to push in our country.
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collapse in the mine located near the town of Kure in the Black Sea province of Kastamonu. Earlier reports said a gas leak had sparked the fire.
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Twelve miners are killed in a fire in a British-owned Siberian gold mine and more than 20 remain trapped.
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The discovery of a baby mammoth preserved in the Russian permafrost gives researchers their best chance yet to build a genetic map of a species extinct since the Ice Age, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday.