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SILVER CHAINS are on display at the jewelry department of a non-ferrous metals plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, Dec. 14, 2016. REUTERS
SILVER’s Reddit-inspired surge to a nearly eight-year high could reverberate across supply chains from solar manufacturing to coin-minting if it holds.
The critical metal is used in such a wide variety of products and goods that a sustained run-up in prices would have implications across entire sectors, especially the energy transition. Because of its conductivity, silver is a key ingredient in electronics like printed circuit boards and solar panels. It’s also used in everything from bandages to hospital paints. To what extent each industry will be affected depends on how long the rally lasts.
Buenos Aires [Argentina], January 31 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted 63 km W of San Antonio de los Cobres, a small town in northern Argentina at around 00:59 a.m. local time (0359 GMT) on Sunday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. Get more World News and Business News on Zee Business.
Cobre Limited (ASX:CBE) Quarterly Activities - Cashflow Reports
Quarterly Activities - Cashflow ReportsSydney, Jan 29, 2021 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Cobre Limited (
ASX:CBE) is pleased to provide the following update on its activities for the quarter ended 31 December 2020. During the quarter, the Company s focus was largely on the corporate front via its geographic and strategic diversification into Botswana through the proposed acquisition of a controlling interest in Kalahari Metals Limited (KML), a copper exploration JV company in the highly prospective Kalahari Copper Belt (KCB) in Botswana.
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Early in the quarter the exploration team finalised on-site processing of core drilled as part of the Company s third drilling programme at Perrinvale and completed field mapping and surface sampling at the Costa del Islas prospect before demobilising.
January 29, 2021
The City of Albuquerque filed a motion last week to try to prevent a class action lawsuit that alleges gender pay discrimination. About 600 women joined four original plaintiffs in 2020 to create a class action lawsuit to seek redress for alleged gender pay discrimination. The original four plaintiffs filed their suit in 2018. Related: ABQ faces class action suit over disparity in pay for women
The plaintiffs’ attorney, Alexandra Freedman Smith, said the pay inequity is so significant, that in some cases, the plaintiffs are alleging there is as much as a $7 an hour difference between what men are paid and what women are paid for the same job. Freedman Smith said some of the women are owed around $100,000 because of the pay differential.
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IMAGE: A randomly selected 3,000-year segment of the physics-based simulated catalog of earthquakes in California, created on Frontera. view more
Credit: Kevin Milner, University of Southern California
Massive earthquakes are, fortunately, rare events. But that scarcity of information blinds us in some ways to their risks, especially when it comes to determining the risk for a specific location or structure. We haven t observed most of the possible events that could cause large damage, explained Kevin Milner, a computer scientist and seismology researcher at the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) at the University of Southern California. Using Southern California as an example, we haven t had a truly big earthquake since 1857 that was the last time the southern San Andreas broke into a massive magnitude 7.9 earthquake. A San Andreas earthquake could impact a much larger area than the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and other large earthquakes can o