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The Mining Statistics of the World - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoIT is impossible to imagine a more concise, more intelligible, or more inexpensive collection of comparative mineral statistics than is contained in the General Report on Mines and Quarries ...
Curious Spherical Masses in Ashdown Sands - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoMR. HARRY E. BURNS, of Crowborough, this spring informed me of some remarkable spherical masses of sandstone in the Ashdown Sands at High Hurst Wood Quarry, and was good enough ...
Early Tertiary Pollen Deposits in Ireland - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoVERY little work has been published on pollen-analysis of Tertiary fresh-water deposits in the British Isles, although there is a considerable literature dealing with Continental work. Recently ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoIn the northern half of the Doulting Milborne Port district the bulk of the yellow Upper Lias Sands is of disansi hemera; but in the neighbourhood of Cole and Castle Cary the topmost portion ...
The British Association: Section C—Geology - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoOn Ice-Age Theories, by Rev. E. Hill, M.A., F.G.S., Tutor of St. John's College, Cambridge.—On the Montreal Mountain, in the neighbouring quarries, at the mouth of the Saguenay River, and more ...
The Quarrying of Granite in India - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoAt Bangalore, in Southern India, the quarrying of granite slabs by means of wood fire has been brought to such perfection, that an account of the method may not be out of ...
Queensland state MP Darren Zanow to retire after dementia-causing brain disease diagnosis
The Guardian· 1 day agoA 52-year-old Queensland MP has announced his resignation from state parliament after being diagnosed with a brain disease that leads to early-onset rapid developing dementia. Ipswich West LNP ...
Henley Bridge: Plans to carry out repairs and remove graffiti
BBC News· 1 day agoA planning application has been submitted to repair a Grade-I listed bridge. Henley Bridge, in...
Aerial Ropeway in Central Sweden - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoAN aerial ropeway of exceptional length is being built in Central Sweden for the purpose of conveying limestone from quarries to a new cement factory. From a description given in Engineering ...
Landmark Powys hotel is back on the market for £350,000
Powys County Times· 1 day agoThe Lion Hotel sits in arguably the most prominent spot in Builth, greeting visitors who arrive in town over the famous six-arch bridge across the River Wye. The landmark 18-bedroom hotel is ...
