Essays on Ore

Introduction

The use of social media enables the American and the global society to communicate through social networking. Additionally, individuals have been able to actively participate in different activities relating to their lives such as leadership. Various internet platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have significantly contributed to the capacity of individuals to make effective communications with the social world (Ore 12). However, the use of social media has caused various problems to the American and the global society as a whole. This paper will focus on the discussion of some of the common and potential problems that are currently ...

The trade and investment relationship between Australia and China demolishes the theory of comparative advantage. According to Adam Smith and Ricardo, it makes sense for a country to focus on the production of goods and services it can do efficiently and purchase goods and services it produces less efficiently from other countries. When this theory is applied to the trade relationship between Australia, a rich country and China, a poor country, we arrive at a paradoxical outcome. The introduction of a free trade regime resulting in Australia-China trading relationship implies that Australian consumers will pay lower prices for imported ...

Question I:

The use of social categories to rationalizing or justifying the treatment of one group over another In America before the 1880, social categories were the norm. They found use in rationalizing and justifying the treatment of one group over another. An excellent example of this is evident in slavery, as well as, the slave trade that thrived during this period. Social categories were used to justify the need for Africans drawn from Africa into the new world. It is estimated that about 10 to 11 million African slaves were drawn from Africa and brought to the new world in ...

Despite the country’s small size, Japan has depicted quite contrasting economies before and after the Second World War. Up to the moment, the country has had three distinct political and economic periods; the Edo which began in 1603 and went on up to 1868, the Meiji Restoration and the final period which began after the Japan’s defeat in the Second World War in 1945 and runs up to now. Each of the three economic periods was characterized by unique factors which necessitated the government to initiate remedies so as to avoid plunging the country into an economic ...

Strategic Analysis Alacer Gold Corp and Gold and Mining Industry

Introduction Gold is a precious metal with high ductility and malleability, and it finds application as jewelry and investment. It is considered to be one of the safest bet for investment, especially during economic instabilities. Consequently, rapid political instabilities in the Middle East and financial crisis led to rapid increase in the price of gold worldwide. Technological innovation is also a major factor that affects the gold and mining industry. Therefore, the strategic analysis narrows on the gold industry, with a specific focus on Alacer Gold Corporation. It looks at the trends in the industry and how Alacer Gold ...

1.0 Tectonic Setting of South China Hong Kong, which is located near the southeastern margin of the Eurasian Continental Plate (ECP), called the Cathaysia Block, in Southeast China, rests on a stable intraplate region of the ECP some 700 km from its nearest plate boundary, an area that underlies Taiwan and trends southward to the Philippines and northeastward to Japan (Pappin, Koo, Free, & Tsang, 2008). Although stable, this continental intraplate region has been associated with earthquakes in the past as it straddles the northeast-trending Lianhuashan Fault Zone. There are two major fault zones, which trends in the regional northeast ...

Extraction Stage

Extraction of copper produces both specks of dust and gaseous wastes such as sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide that significantly contribute to environmental pollutions, especially air pollution (“Copper Mining”). Whereas copper wire miners reduce this pollution level by trapping the generated sulfur dioxide gas for purposes of producing sulfuric acid, considerable amounts of sulfur dioxide still escape and take part in both air and water pollution. However, extraction methods that incorporate emulsion of liquid membranes and applications of microorganisms in removing copper from their underground ores have been currently established as the economical and viable ways of gathering copper. ...

Material extraction

The mining and extraction of copper has several impacts on the environment. The extraction of copper is done in several steps and process using different technologies and mechanisms. The copper element is extracted from its ore through heating the ore using carbon. This process releases carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere. It is a well known fact that carbon dioxide gas is a greenhouse gas which result into global warming. The result of the extraction is copper full of impurities. The impure copper is then placed under further treatment to eliminate the presence of the impurities. In most cases, ...

The increase in the number of corporation necessitated the formation of cooperate governance, which is a particular set of laws and practical approach through which organization is directed as well as controlled to focus on the internal and external corporate structures, with the intention of monitoring the management's actions, including those of the directors. Thereby instituting measures that may stem misdeed of corporate officers. The paper tests whether Citic Pacific as a company applied corporate governance in its oversea deals. The empirical evidence based on exhibits will be the supporting documents of the literary content written. First, the paper ...

Question 1

Radioactivity is the process by which unstable isotopes of elements disintegrate in the nucleus to release energy in form of gamma rays, beta radiation and alpha radiation. The disintegration occurs as a result of the stability within the cell nucleus. Some isotopes of elements have non-balancing number of the protons as compared to the neutrons, as a result of the lack of balance between the negative and the positive charges in the nucleus; the nucleus becomes unstable and disintegrates. Radioactive radiation was first discovered by Henri Becquerel in 1896 as he was working on X-ray. By then the X-ray ...

The federal government manages the mining rights and mineral ownership on public lands as regulated by the General Mining Law of 1872 and subsequent amendments. This law was enacted to permit mining claims practices that are currently being used during the California Gold Rush of 1849. They then a decade later spread through the West. The 1872 General Mining Law was beneficial as it promoted exploration, development as well as influencing the settlement of the territories in the West between 1804 and 1853 in US. However, this law has come under a strict scrutiny due to the fact that ...

Question 1

Ernest Rutherford One of the contributions of Ernest Rutherford includes the discovery that the Becquerel rays consisted of two different rays (Sears, 2015). The discovery of the two rays came about after Ernest Rutherford focused his attention on actual radiations that are emitted by radioactive substances. The experiment consisted of evaluations of radiations that were emitted from successively layered sheets of aluminum placed over a uranium compound. A distinction made in the two forms of rays was their penetrating power. According to Sears (2015), to be able to distinguish between the two forms of rays, Rutherford named the easily ...

Introduction

The objective of this paper is to reply to questions pertaining to the two cases on financial statement analysis. In this case, Robots, Inc. uses LIFO method of valuing inventory and its subsidiaries use FIFO method. There are no established or general rules, but firms usually prefer LIFO method of valuing in circumstances. First, the selling price of the goods and total revenues of the firm show an upward trend, but costs move downward. In such cases, near term profits are blown up so much that it gives an unrealistic picture. Second, the decision of using LIFO may be ...

The age of exploration and colonialism was in fact the first period of globalization starting in the early Modern and going through the modern period. European explorers, traders, merchants and governments were primarily interested with trade with Asia and the Americas. The connection between silver from Spanish America and Asian spices and luxury products was one of the main drivers of the world economy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. As always economic changes seem to have another, even larger social impacts. Greater interconnectivity between Europe, its American colonies and Asian markets and its connection to the global ...

Rock types

Mibei (2014) classified rocks into three major types based on their formation process: the sedimentaries; the igneous; and the metamorphics. Sedimentary rocks, which comprised the majority (up to 66 percent) of Earth’s crust, formed through depositions of materials (e.g. minerals and organic particles) at the surface of or within water bodies on Earth. These rocks include limestones, sandstones, conglomerates, shales, and gypsum. Most of these rocks can be found in ocean floors and basins, which account to 70 percent of the Earth’s total land area. Igneous rocks form from magma, which solidified and cooled, including the partial ...

Mining in Australia involves the extraction, as well as the processing of a wide range of mineral resources spread across the country. The mining activities fall into various classification depending on the nature of the activity. These categories include coal mining, mining of oil and gas, mining of metal ores such as bauxite, and mining of construction materials (Connolly and Orsmond 26). Australia has an uneven distribution of mining resources, with some states better endowed than others. For instance, Western Australia has large deposits of iron ore and natural gas, whereas New South Wales and Queensland areas have plenty ...

- Introduction

The vehicle manufacturing sector, as a dynamic arena, has undergone various changes, influences and effects, since the advent of the European Industrial revolution, and majorly so, from the input of Henry Ford’s – Assembly line model. Through its involvement in the process of vehicle manufacture, it actively contributes to the global economy, by way of revenue allotment, industry development and employment opportunities, in addition to contributing to varied environmental impacts and effects. It is involved in the development, design, manufacture, selling and marketing of vehicles, motorcycles and mopeds amongst other transport equipment. Pertinent, is the presence of the auxiliary ...

A country is considered an “Emerging Market” when its social and business activities are in a marked accelerated growth. The term “Emerging Market” was first put into use by World Bank economist Antoine van Agtmael to define a country that is transitioning from “developing” to “developed”. Ian Bremmer, a political scientist characterizes an “Emerging Market” as a country where economics and politics are equal. The 2008 Emerging Economy Report defines emerging markets as those regions that are undergoing rapid “informationalization” and have limited industrialization. Scholars from both Harvard Business School and Yale School of Management are studying ...

Book Review – Uranium Frenzy (Report 1)

The uranium boom in Utah during the 1950s was a whirlwind mineral rush, fuelled by the atomic age. In the wake of the atomic bomb, uranium became an incredibly important mineral and resource that everyone was quick to cash in on, with the US government creating a tremendous amount of interest and zeal towards finding a domestic source (Ringholz ix). All number of people found themselves joining the search for uranium, from trained professionals to enthusiastic amateurs, hoping to join in on this tremendous mineral rush that beset the United States during this time. As the ups and downs of the uranium ...

Industrial Revolution

Thesis: Industrial revolution has shaped the world history by causing a changeover in technologic, political and social effects. Initial accumulation of capital and the formation of manufacturing industry represented the initial stage of the development of capitalist relations. This was the period during which the preconditions for the transition to an industrial economy were prepared. The condition of this transition was the industrial revolution, during which there was a radical restructuring of the technical base of production, forms of organization of production and the whole system of socio-economic relations. The industrial revolution is a fundamental qualitative restructuring of the material ...

Methodology

The methodology presents the major strategies and techniques that will be used to achieve the major objectives that were set in the research . It will further provide the techniques that will adopt in the answering the several research questions that were identified in the previous chapter. The section will provide strategies that will adopted in the empirical determination of the objective and the respective research questions by introducing the major tools that will be used in the data collection of the data from a predefined and set sample size. Using the a properly determined sample size in this research, the section ...

Norfolk Southern Railroad Company is a corporation that deals with the transportation in the Columbia. It serves more than 22 states in the District of Columbia and operating more than 20000 route mile. It provides rail carriers in the western part of the United States where it transports containers. Therefore, it provides efficient transportation of the products such as industrial and coal in the eastern part through rail carriers. The company has three main branches operating at the designated areas. The Norfolk and Western is one of the branches that were made in 1881. The second is the Southern ...

Individual Sustainable Development Assignment (ENGG107 2013-14) v1

Product or Process or System Selected (Friday 25 October submission) The sustainability of aluminium      Brief description of the scope of product, process or system , its market situation and your Sustainable Development concerns (Friday 25 October submission) This paper explains the element aluminium. It provides an overview of the existence of aluminium, its physical and chemical properties, the main uses and areas of application in the world and its sustainability as an airplan manufacturing material. the paper also covers the flow process of the manufacture of aluminium right from the ore to end use products ...

MEM 695

Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to introduce the different types of energy resources utilized worldwide. This paper discusses the history of the different resources used, starting with the utilization of conventional fossil fuel based technologies, the emergence of nuclear power and finally, the commercialization of renewable energy resources. The main objective of this research paper is to provide an insight on how these energy sources are accessed, utilized, distributed and developed. The paper also seeks to impact of the utilization of these various energy resources on the environment, especially the effect of continued utilization of ...

Iron

Iron as a chemical element is referred to by the symbol Fe and has an atomic number 26 on the periodic table. Iron is a metal in the first transition series and is the most abundant element on the outer and inner surface of the earth.

Iron was discovered in 2000 BCE when it replaced bronze in manufacture of tools and weapons and ushered in the Iron Age. Iron was first used in South-Central and South-West Asia. Iron was picked over bronze because when it is blended with carbon, it becomes harder and durable. Iron can also hold a sharp edge better ...

Introduction

Emission of the toxic substance by industries is common all over the world. Toxic substances are emitted daily by industries and anthropogenic activities. Toxic substances are categorized into three categories namely organic, inorganic and metallic compounds. Examples of organic, inorganic and metallic compounds are methane, sulfate and mercury respectively. There have been reports of these substances having negative effects on the environment. Substances like methane are responsible for increased atmospheric temperature. Sulfates affect soil. Sulfates combine with atmospheric water to form acid water. Acid water has a negative effect of soil and microorganism living in it. Mercury, on the other ...

History does not lack notable and influential people who, from their simple acts and convictions, made a clear mark in the development of civilization. From politics to religion, many influential names remain known even at the present time and lauded for their contributions. However, aside from politics and religion, there are also historical figures from the scientific community whose inventions remain integral to society. One of these scientific greats is American inventor Thomas Alba Edison, the known inventor of the world’s first light bulb. However, unlike his peers, Edison was a jack of all trades who was not satisfied in ...

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Introduction 4 Shipbrokers Chartering 5 The Ship-broking Market 6 Diverse Industry 6 Dry – Cargo Markets 7 Ship-Owners’ Preference for Shipbrokers 8 Identify carriers for cargoes and cargoes for carriers 8 Information Source 8 Dispute Resolver 9 Conclusion 10 Abstract Shipbrokers have a significant influence on day to day business transactions when it comes to charters and sales and purchase activities in the markets. The ship-owners value the brokers’ capabilities for negotiation, knowledge, and information and their perception in the market. In additional businesses, the luxury-oriented services create goodwill and ...

Creating sustainable Remote mining operations for the future

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Introduction

The OECD Environmental Outlook to 2050 Report paints a grim picture of the Earth’s condition by 2050 (Holloway, 2012). Due to negligence towards the increasing environmental degradation, the changes in climatic conditions are likely to be severe. Simultaneously, it predicts a world population of 9.2 billion people with a global GDP of over 300 trillion USD, four times the 75 trillion USD it was in 2010 (Gillespie, 2014). Over 70 per cent of the population of the planet will live in cities by 2050, as compared to 50 per cent in 2008 (UNEP, 2010). To support ...

Production processes have been revolutionized by technology. This is because technology has shaped the way products, processes and goods are produced. Technology has enabled people to simulate designs of very complex engines, aircraft models, combustion components and control centers of large ships. Though very complicated, such processes have been understood by carrying out an analysis of the product’s commodity chain. This helps in understanding the production and development of the product. Commodity chain refers to a chain of activities that consist of the labor and production activities, aimed at producing a finished product (Bair 2). These key areas work independently ...

1.0 Project Description 1.1 Property The Taylor Project lease owned by Fed Resources Pty Ltd is located approximately three hundred kilometers, by road, from a suitable port facility, Port Steve (see Figure 1). Fifteen kilometers to the west is a disused railway that connects the nearby pastoral village Glendale to Port Steven. Infrastructure in the area is minimal, although Glendale is connected to grid power by a small run-down substation. Local government has offered large subsidies for services to encourage development in the area and has indicated that refurbishing and upgrading the small power plant in Glendale would be of ...

The origin and the culture of blacksmiths in Kuku society date 1790 – 1960s. Kuku consisted of a large ethnic group of southerners in Sudan (Poggo 169). The cultural and the linguistic group were among the Eastern Nilotes. The Eastern Nilotic Group occupied the Kajo-Kaji territory. The territory was originally the home of the Moru – Madi Sudanic community. As Kuku crossed the River Nile, they absorbed some of the communities living in that territory at that period. The interaction of the Kuku and Lugabra from the southern region, Kakwa from the west, and the Bari from the north led to the ...

Introduction:

Iron (symbol Fe and atomic number 26) is a popular metal, which is used in a variety of applications. As it is abundantly available in the earth, it has been used in different forms since time immemorial. Today, iron ore extraction is a well defined and regulated process. However, there are many environmental and health hazards related to the metal and extraction. A critical analysis of the exact impacts can help in achieving an overall sustainable productivity from the element. With that end in mind, this paper deals with the characteristics of Iron; places where it is available; how it is extracted, ...

Aluminium is produced from bauxite. Al2O3. This is referred to as Alumina, or aluminium oxide is extracted from the ore. After the extraction, electrolytic reduction process is used to transform Alumina to Aluminium. From every two tonnes of alumina, one tonne of aluminium is produced. The bauxite consists of ferrous oxide, titanium oxide, earth silicon, and alumina, approximately 40 to 60%. Bayer process is used to separate pure aluminium from bauxite (Habashi 16). This process involves heating the ore in an autoclave that contains caustic soda. Cooling then takes place, in order to separate the solid residue that is ...

It is worthyto note that a somepercentage of data scattering due to personal error in measurement usually occur. There is a thus the need to make a straight line of best fit. There are times when deviations from linearity occurwithout any known exceptions to the Beer-Lambert law. The deviationsfrom linearity could arise as a result of the kind of chemical association, high concentrations of the analyte, and how the instrument is calibrated. Also, a change in the refractive index of the analytical system may lead to deviationssuch changes will only matter in high-absorbance differential measurements.Many substances obey the Beer-Lambert law when at a moderate and ...

Martin Marger writes that race is a human invention (Marger, 2009, p.17). The art of race has resulted into social injustice and oppression of a certain members of a particular racial group. Biology indicates that one’s race or ethnicity does not define one’s ability or social status in the society. This is points out that biologically, we are equal in that one’s DNA does not show if one is white or colored (Marger, 2009, p.11). This shows that the terms race and ethnicity are terms constructed by the society so as to form a hierarchy in the society. The dominant ...

On the 27th September 2013, it was reported in the news that mining company BHP Billiton Limited had put on hold its expected project of expansion of the Olympic Dam owing to a challenge of resources. This brought to the fore the issue of competitive challenges in the company which is regarded as one of the biggest mining company in Australia and indeed, in the whole world. As a consequence, this paper seeks to analyze the company BHP Billiton Limited, also listed in the Australian Securities Exchange, with a view to exposing the competitive challenges that the company faces and how to ...

INTRODUCTION

Rio Tinto is a combination of predecessor companies formed by investors in 1873 and 1905. Due to such an extensive knowledge and experience in the mining industry, the organization is regarded as one of the finest and leading global mining and metal company. Being a global mining and metal company, the organization focuses highly on the exploration and processing of Earth’s finest mineral resources with an aim to maximize the shareholder’s value. In order to do so, the organization has the right people for the job and resources to provide the world with minerals and metals. Some of the ...

Iron and Steel Overview

The demand for steel highly depends on both global and national economies. Development and enhancement of sophisticated technology has improved both quality of product and productivity of work. Integrated mills require very high capital requirements and all mils are greatly affected by commodity prices. Another major force and focus for steel and iron industry include environmental regulations, which check the environmental impacts coming from mills (L e e, 2011). Advancement in technology have greatly reduced the demand for labor, with some Canadian manufacturers reducing the number of man-hours required to produce a ton of steel by 90% over the last ...

Introduction

I, Pencil is an interesting and captivating story by Leonard Read. The story is of timeless significance as it outlines the manufacturing processes that people tend to neglect. The story as narrated by the author is intended to explain the invisible hand that harmonizes all the individual’s activities to benefit the society as a whole. The I, Pencil story depicts the whole process of manufacturing the pencil, from the natural resources to the product, pencil. It also demonstrates that no single individual can make an item without the involvement of other people and other resources. This paper focuses on ...

I/We have been assigned one of the most expensive metals, Platinum. It has widely application in dental implants, automotive catalytic converters (Rao & Reddi, 2000), biomedical implants such as catheters, stents, cardiac implants (Cowley & Woodward, 2011), manufacturing of optical glass, manufacturing of fuel cells (McDonald & Hunt, 1982) and jewelry.

Platinum ore deposits

Platinum ore contains palladium, iridium, rhodium, osmium and ruthenium, along with platinum. Platinum ore forms a) Placer deposits: Placer deposits are formed by water-based erosion of sedimentary rocks containing the ore (Example. Ural-Alaskan type). b) Layered igneous lode deposits: Such deposits are emplaced on stable cratons. Examples: South Africa as the Bushveld Complex, ...

Argumentative Essay:

The world economy is standing on the pillar of international trade. The origin of global market the import and export between two countries are the basics of International trade. If you are buying a sports shoe in your locality that is made in Korea then this is the benefit of International trade. If you are able eat salmon fish of Japan in the UK, then this is another great example of international trade. Likewise iron ore, mango fruits, apples, leather jacket and all the products available across the globe at their best quality can be attributed to the import and ...

In Ursula le Guin’s novel “The Dispossessed” describes a society on the anarchist planet, Anarres. In many ways it is similar to Earth; however Anarres was birthed from revolution and discord. Compared to earth or its sister planet Urras, the people of Anarres have very little in terms of luxury and monetary means. The planet is bleak with only metal ore as a resource. The people of Anarres are very set in their ways and do not want a relationship with Urras even if it could improve their situation. The pros of this society are that they are free to ...

This report aims at providing an analytical view on GFA’s plan to invest in mineral mining in two West African countries (Mauritania and Senegal) and afterwards give a recommendation on the company’s status on the next move. The report will examine the status of the company, prospects of the proposed investment and finally the conclusion and recommendations for the company partners to undertake. The company’s plan to carry out an economic feasibility in the area is wise. Since the last exploration was done during the 1950’s. The company requires new figures and up-to-date information on ...

Article 1 brief “Australian PM defends banning of Chinese company”: China is Australia’s largest trading partner to the extent that the Australian government is considering entering into a free trade agreement with China. Huawei, the technology giant in China, which has nurtured business relations with Australia since 2004, was refused to work on Australia’s project to build a national high-speed Internet network in Australia over a period of three years, owing to the security concerns that were highlighted by the Australian Intelligence Officers. 1. Implications on the Australian government: Though Australia claims to have had severe security reasons ...

Term Paper

1. Lesson 4 – a. Ingeo journey refer to a journey where our responsibilities towards environment is increasing and we are taking various measures and adopting various technologies to improve the situation. To some extent we are able to reduce adverse effect on environment but this journey will go on. The concept can be implemented on three “shelf in the bookcase”. Solar energy technology help in saving the electricity and also reduce the chemicals released while production of electricity. We can save a huge quantity of water that goes in production of electricity. The same concept work in case of renewal of ...

Metallurgy

Definition of Metallurgy

Metallurgy is "the science and study of the behaviors and properties of metals” (Tom Bertone Consulting, 2012) and the procedures involved in the extraction of metal from ore. In particular, it deals with the properties of metals and alloys. Metals are characterized as having the capability of conducting electricity and heat (“Metallurgy,” 2011). They are hard and are dense under room temperature. Alloys, on the other hand, are combinations of metals. An example of an alloy is steel, which is a combination of carbon and iron, although vanadium and chromium may also be added. Other examples ...

The rise and fall of the auto industry in Detriot, MI (USA)

There is no city in the whole world which was so powerfully influential to the automobile world than Detroit, Michigan. Detroit was a city without a specialization till the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1900, Detroit’s population was 285000 and was only the thirteenth largest city of the US. It was something like a Jack-of-all-trades city at the end of the 19th century, with its people being engaged in industries as diverse as tobacco products, food manufacture, drugs and chemicals, stove manufacture, ore processing and food production. There has never been another city to command the world of automobiles as ...

Strategic management

Michael Porter model is still a theory considered a force to reckon with when it comes to strategic management. Simply referred to as Porter’s five forces the model is based upon industrial organization (I/O) and Michael was able to show that five forces that basically determine a firm profitability (Porter, 1980). He mainly explores environment that a company can operate and have competitive edge. It is pertinent to note at this level that a business success depends on environment and environment in this context may be external or internal (Chak, 2003). These five forces are entry threat, buyer’s power, supplier’s power, ...

The recording of this masterpiece Jazz song was done at the Marquee Club in London in June 1965. The presenter, one of Britain’s finest and celebrated jazz performers, was Humphrey Lyttelton. We study with reference to Monk's history; we see pictures and recordings of his early shows. According to the producer, Bruce Ricker brought into being Christian and Michael Blackwell’s recording’s of Monk, and it was in fact in outstanding form. The meetings that are incorporated here are original, and the acquaintances and friends of Monk who are questioned to offer us insight into who he ...