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...prices and China's untapped reserves. But listed domestic miners have ambitions beyond China's borders. Zijin, China's leading gold miner, last year purchased a company with gold-mining and exploration rights in Tajikistan and a stake in a Philippine gold and copper project. Zijin also led a consortium that bought a majority stake in London-listed Monterrico Metals, which owns a copper and molybdenum project in Peru. "All the big mining groups started this way," says Atherley, the Australian mining-company executive. "They get a good mine and they start acquiring. It is really down to corporate fate...
...manufacturing giant is crying foul after it lost a $35 billion U.S. Air Force contract to a consortium including the European parent company of Airbus. Boeing has filed a formal protest with the government, saying the selection process was "seriously flawed...
Faust's testimony is part of a Harvard-led effort by a consortium of research universities to reverse a recent real-dollar decline in research grants from the National Institutes of Health...
...spoke in favor of increasing federal funding for biomedical research before a U.S. Senate committee yesterday.Faust’s testimony capped a Harvard-led effort to reverse a recent real-dollar decline in research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Working as part of a larger consortium of universities, Harvard spearheaded the lobbying push, which began with a report and congressional appearances last spring.Yesterday’s testimony, as well as a second report, ”A Broken Pipeline?,” released at a press conference immediately preceding the hearing, focused on the funding...
...project is being conducted in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, the Field Museum of Chicago, the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, the Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium, and the Missouri Botanical Garden...