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Famous mineral localities: The Pacajake Selenium Mine, Potosi, Bolivia
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The Pacajake mine, hidden high in the Cordillera Oriental of the Bolivian Andes, is famous for its rare selenides, selenates and selenites, and is the type locality for penroseite, ahlfeldite, olsacherite and mandarinoite. It was recently rediscovered after having stood abandoned for more than 60 years, and some new specimen material was collected, but the prospects for finding more are now as remote as the locality itself.
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Famous mineral localities: the Pacajake selenium mine Potosi, Bolivia.
The Mineralogical Record
; ... meters, is not shown on modern topographic maps but lies between the Rio Pacayaque and ... in broad terms with modern topographic maps, and the latitude and longitude given did ... location. To confuse the issue further, modern maps show a valley with the similar name of ...
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Famous mineral localities: The Pacajake Selenium Mine, Potosi, Bolivia
Mineralogical Record
; ... meters, is not shown on modern topographic maps but lies between the Rio Pacayaque and ... in broad terms with modern topographic maps, and the latitude and longitude given did ... location. To confuse the issue further, modern maps show a valley with the similar name of ...
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2 sessions to focus on regional growth plan; The comprehensive plan will guide growth in the urban and suburban heart of Lancaster County - an area where 200,000 people live.
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
; John Ahlfeld was holding a thick white binder in his hand - a book filled with a wide variety of information about the future development in Lancaster and its suburbs. But by the end of 2005, that information should be turned into a final draft of a regional comprehensive plan that Ahlfeld's
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A greater appreciation of life, less fear of death
Chicago Sun-Times
; 'The last thing I want about my story coming out is the triumph of the human spirit," Michael Patrick Thornton told me the other night in Danny Ahlfeld's garage in Jefferson Park. I was glad he told me that because I might have been tempted to steer his story in exactly that direction, not that it
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Municipal panel here poised for next big steps // A steering committee, a consultant, and an infusion of county money will move 12 local municipalities along the road to comprehensive community planning in central Lancaster County.
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
; ... for communities to work together to chart their collective future with such comprehensive plans. The plans are considered "road maps" for future land use, and are just recommendations -- they don't actually establish the zoning that allows for the high-density ...
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Communities review big goal-setting growth plan.
Lancaster New Era (Lancaster, PA)
; ... municipalities to work together as that growth occurs, Ahlfeld stated in a news release. No other regional plan in the state has been a cooperative ... Lancaster New Era, Pa. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374- ...
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Famous mineral localities: Cerro Rico de Potosi, Bolivia.(includes related article on the discovery of the Potosi mines and rule of Captain Caravajall)
The Mineralogical Record
; Cerro Rico ( Rich Mountain ) de Potosi is among the oldest and most famous orebodies in South America, has yielded billions of dollars in silver, is the type locality for two tin sulfides - berndtite and ottemannite - and has produced the world's finest specimens of phosphophyllite. INTRODUCTION
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Professor wins Japan's Kyoto Prize, $446,000: INVENTOR'S DEVICE HELPED SPEED MEDICAL ADVANCES.
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
; ... Lisa Krieger at lkrieger@mercurynews or (650) 688-7565. Copyright (c) 2006, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send ...
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The oldest debate since the birth of capitalism still rages
Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal
; ... change The KRC report does deliver what Herzenberg calls some good news. He says the administration of Governor Ed Rendell has begun ... these industries," says Herzenberg. "At the same time, it's good news that most of the state's jobs are not in manufacturing, although ...
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Understanding the service economy
Dollars & Sense
; NEW RULES FOR A NEW ECONOMY EMPLOYMENT AND OPPORTUNITY IN POSTINDUSTRIAL AMERICA by Stephen A. Herzenberg, John A. Alic, and Howard Wial Cornell University Press, 1998 Books on work in the United States focus disproportionately on manufacturing. We read over and over about employee participation in
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