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A 2.6 billion-year-old rock has made a journey of almost 14,000 kilometres from Australia’s Pilbara region to London and will go on display at a new exhibition at the Natural History Museum (NHM), opened by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge. The colourfully layered 2.5 tonne rock, a piece of banded…
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The UAE’s finest carpenters, technicians, and expert operators stole the spotlight at the Middle East’s dedicated trade fair for hardware, tools, machinery, and materials in Dubai this week. The Tool It! Challengeat Hardware + Tools Middle East 2017 invited contracting and fit-out firms, construction companies, and workshop owners, to nominate…
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Peabody Energy has been named coal mining company of the year for 2017 by United Kingdom-based Corporate LiveWire, recognizing the company's excellence in safety performance, environmental stewardship and leadership in advancing technology solutions. The honors were given by a panel of judges as part of Corporate LiveWire's annual awards program.…
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Russia’s central bank is now the world’s top gold buyer after adding 356,000 ounces of the precious metals to its reserves in February, data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quoted by local paper Vedomosti (in Russian) shows. According to the report, the country — which has been hoarding bullion…
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Divisions between the world's major oil producers were laid bare on Tuesday as markets dismissed the prospect of an emergency Opec meeting to cut production levels. Forward contracts for Brent crude fell by as much as 4.5pc to $32.70 a barrel, despite comments from Russia's foreign minister that Moscow was…
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