Sacramento – Heart of the California Gold Rush

March 10th, 2010 | Posted in Education   Comments Off
andrew.regan.2006@googlemail.com asked:

The Gold Rush started on January 24, 1848, when James. W. Marshall – working for Sacramento pioneer John Sutter, discovered shiny pieces of metal at Sutter’s Mill, near Coloma in California. After taking them to Sutter, the two men tested the metal and found it to be gold. Far from being euphoric at the find, Sutter was dismayed as he envisaged his dreams of an agricultural empire going up in smoke once prospectors rushed to the area. Because of that fear Sutter tried to keep news of the find under wraps, but all to no avail as rumours soon spread.

By March 1848, news of the find had reached San Francisco where newspaperman and merchant Samuel Brannan, after being shrewd enough to set up a store to sell gold prospecting supplies, strode through the streets of San Francisco, holding up a piece of gold and shouting: “Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!

By August 1848 the news had reached New York and on December 5th was confirmed to Congress by President James Polk sparking an invasion of Sacramento and the surrounding area by waves of immigrants, who would later be referred to as the “forty-niners”.

Confirming his fears Sutter was ruined; his workers deserted him seeking gold fortunes of their own, and immigrants squatted on his land helping themselves to his cattle and crops. However, by the time the 49ers arrived the easily accessible gold had long been scooped up by the original prospectors of 1848. As waves of new immigrants flooded the area around Sacramento it effectively became a squalid tented city. With no hotel in Sacramento to speak of, or any other places of shelter for that matter, the mass of new arrivals literally slept in the streets, until they got a job, or left for the prospecting fields.

It was a lawless place in California at the time of the gold rush. The goldfields were declared public land, with no property rights, no taxes and no fees. Land was ‘claimed’ by prospectors, who could keep the claim as long as they worked on it. Once work stopped or the site was abandoned then the land could be reclaimed. This loose definition led to disputes about ‘claim-jumpers’, which were often settled in a violent manner.

Most of the estimated 300,000 would-be prospectors that came to California after 1849 found little gold, but did help establish Sacramento as a major town, confirmed by it becoming the terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. In only 20 years the settlement had burgeoned into a bustling hub for California. And, while his father’s dreams of an agricultural empire were dashed by the Gold Rush, John Sutter Jr, together with Sam Brannan became the City of Sacramento’s founding fathers.

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The Fashionable Ultra Slim Mobile Phone: Samsung U600 Copper Gold

March 8th, 2010 | Posted in Marketing   Comments Off
m.jeya asked:

The Samsung U600 Copper gold phone clever design of Samsungs Ultra Edition 10.9 includes a unique and stylish interface for the ultimate sophistication and usability. Samsung U600 Copper gold also comes equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera encased in an ultra slim profile and boasting a 2.22 wide TFT LCD widescreen. For the feature watchers, Samsungs Ultra Edition 12.1 offers a HSDPA 3.6 Mbps data transfer speed, video telephony functionality and auto focus in a slim 12.1mm case.

The Bluetooth cell phone Samsung U600 Copper gold has 3.2-megapixel camera features a 4x digital zoom, LED flash, enhanced auto focus, automatic switching between auto mode and macro mode by sensing the distance from the photo subject, and half shutter for more accurate focusing. An integrated image editor allows you to edit photos without compromising on the original quality and size of the picture. The camera also has video recording capabilities, shooting up to CIF resolution of 352 x 288 pixels.

The unlocked mobile cell phone Samsung U600 Copper gold is a compact phone with a slide open mechanism that lives up to the manufacturer’s name. The Samsung U600 Copper gold phone has a shiny casing and comes in sapphire blue, garnet red, platinum metal & in a copper gold colour, further adding to the sheen of U600. The Samsung U600 Copper gold phone built-in camera in the handset lets you record videos and click still snaps. The smart cell phone Samsung U600 Copper gold high resolution 3.2 megapixel camera comes with an auto focus feature, as well as other advanced camera features that a stand alone digital camera would boast of. Providing up to 262,000 colours on a 2.2 inch LCD colour screen, the large and lucid display of the handset also acts as a viewfinder for its camera.

The unlocked cell phone Samsung U600 copper gold phone provides Bluetooth version 2.0 wireless connectivity with EDR, and includes profiles for communication headset, hands free car kits, and audio/video remote control. You can connect your laptop (either via Bluetooth or wired USB) and enjoy dial-up networking–surf the Internet, send email, and access files from a server. Battery life is rated at 4.5 hours of digital talk time and 345 hours of standby time.

The smart handset Samsung U600 Copper gold is a complete music player phone with superb sound quality. It’s equipped with a digital power amp and offers a dedicated music user interface for a quick and easy way to navigate through the play list. In addition, the Ultra Music Samsung U600 includes a stereo FM radio and a Quick PC Sync function, allowing you to easily create and organize your music library. It plays a wide variety of music files including MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA file formats, and background music plays as you use the mobile’s other features. Please purchase online www.luckywirelessusa.com

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Teryl Resources Turns Drills to Historic Gold Hill

March 6th, 2010 | Posted in Investing   Comments Off
Jon Shanahan asked:

When Teryl Resources Corporation (TSXV: TRC, Pink Sheets: TRYLF) became interested in the Gold Hill Prospect near Bisbee, AZ, they were following a pretty strong lead – Historic Gold Hill, at a 5491-foot elevation, looks out for miles over the Warren mining district, a famously ore-rich region of the Southwest. Phelps Dodge Corporation’s Lavender Pit mine, only 4 miles to the west of the project, is one of the most productive copper mines in history, producing over 75 million tons of copper ore from 1954-70, and in excess of $1B in copper, gold, and silver.

Preliminary geophysical and geological testing on Teryl’s properties in the region has been promising, and the company has recently signed a contract to begin drilling.

Teryl Resources turned an eye to the Gold Hill prospect in the summer of last year, and a number of indicators immediately urged closer inspection. A report by Frederic Rothermel, PhD, outlined a pattern of mineralization that moved from copper-rich/gold-poorer at the centre of the system to gold richer/copper poorer at the fringes – this pattern is consistent with features of the Carlin Trend in Nevada, which contains over 100 million ounces of gold in proven and probable reserves. This zoning pattern at Gold Hill is unique to the Warren mining district. Geophysical parallels to Lavender Pit are numerous, and further geological testing revealed significant gold values and a copper presence of up to 3% in surface assays.

John Robertson, President of Teryl Resources since 1982 states: “The Gold Hill project is an area which may have the potential to be developed into a large lode-type copper deposit. Our geologist feels that the anomaly is similar to that of the Copper Queen deposit (Lavender Pit).” With regard to possible quantities on the property, according to Robertson, “The sky’s the limit.”

The geophysical parallels to nearby producers are strong and compelling, but there are indicators that this is an unusually rich deposit area for the region. “One of the interesting parts of the property,” says Robertson, “is that not only does it have very similar geophysical data (to the Copper Queen), but when the previous work was done on these targets from the Lavender Pit property and the Phelps Dodge properties, they didn’t get any surface assays – they drilled it based on geophysical data. With our particular property we actually got some pretty high-grade values on the surface, which is very unusual for that area.”

This indicates that the deposit could be even richer than the neighboring targets: “It’s a better target, when you have not only the geophysical targets, but the geochemical targets as well.”

Developing claims in an historic mining district has obvious infrastructural advantages: “(Gold Hill) is very close to previous producing mines, so there is the infrastructure there.”

The property at the Gold Hill prospect currently comprises 248 acres, and the company is actively acquiring an additional 640 acres as drilling begins.

“The time to really capitalize on a stock is before the drilling commences,” says Robertson, “Once Teryl starts drilling, then the anticipation of good results will increase the value of the stock. And if the results turn out to be positive, you could see the stock increase several-fold. The key time for investors to buy shares of a resource company is before the drilling program.”

Alaska

Teryl Resources is also a main property holder in the Fairbanks Mining Division in Alaska. The company holds interest in a number of properties in the region – the Gil, West Ridge, Fish Creek, and the Stepovich Properties – all of which are near or adjacent to Kinross Gold’s Fort Knox mine, the most prodigious gold-producing mine in Alaska, and the True North deposit, also owned by Kinross Gold.

Teryl has spent 1.6 million on exploration on the Gil property, and has defined a resource of 400,000 ounces of gold (10 million tons X 0.04 ounces per ton). The main zone that contains the resource reaches a thickness of 80 ft., and has been traced along a 2,500 ft. length.

The West Ridge property is 100% owned by Teryl, and anomalies of elevated gold in the soil show a presence of antimony and arsenic that is very similar to Kinross’ neighboring True North Deposit (which has a defined reserve of 616,000 ounces of gold at 0.046 ounces per ton gold). Thus far, Teryl has spent $350,000 on exploration of the property.

At the Fish Creek property – 50% owned by Teryl and adjacent to the north to the Gil property – an auger drill program has identified elevated gold presence that suggests that the Gil resource extends into the Fish Creek property.

“We also have some drill targets that we’re planning on drilling in that area,” comments John Roberston. Once deposits are defined, the ore will be readily processed at Kinross’ nearby mill.

Other Holdings

Teryl Resources also has joint venture silver properties, and ongoing revenue from oil and gas projects in Texas and Kentucky.

For more info: www.terylresources.com

This article is intended for information purposes only, and is not a recommendation to buy or sell the equities of any company mentioned herein. It is based on sources believed to be reliable, but no warranty as to accuracy is expressed or implied. The opinions expressed in the article are those of the author except where statements are attributed to individuals other than the author, in which case the opinions are those of the individual to whom they are attributed.

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Benefits of Sand Testing Equipments in Business Industries

March 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Business   Comments Off
Versatile Equipments asked:

Moulds and cloves are used for making foundry sand. Foundry sand basically consists of same sized and clean silica sand or even lake sand. There can be several defects in the sand however arising due to the problems with metal and sand both which have large internal variables. The flaws that keep arising from the sand could be prevented by the use of sand testing equipments. To ensure duty free casting, sand testing laboratory are absolute necessary. The main generators of foundry sand are the automotive companies and its suppliers.

Various machines like knotting/binding machines, foundry equipments for the testing of sand particles, machined components and flower processing lines are manufactured.

You have to make use of good, state of the art machines if you want to make a profit from sand. Flower processing lines are used by a whole range of people from flower auctions to flower growers. The main objective of buying the processing lines is to reduce the lead time especially of perishable items like flowers, keeping in norms of the packing of the flowers for export and reducing damage to delicate flowers during the process of packing. Binding machines are handy when objects of size 5-100mm are to be tied. Green sand is used simply for metal casting by adding green sand, bentonite clay and water and is added to foundry sand testing equipment. A number of foundry sand testing equipments are available in the market today and can be put to good use.

Versatile is the leading service providers of sand testing equipments. As you known equipments are very necessary especially when it comes to testing sand. Versatile provides the best services and can supply your company and organization with any sand testing equipment.

To know more about our Sand Testing and Sand Testing Equipment based solutions contact Versatile Equipment Pvt.Ltd at +91 231 2672 711 or email us at vepl@versatile-equipments.com.

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Government Job Prospects – Keeping Your Eyes Open For The Right Job

February 24th, 2010 | Posted in Careers   Comments Off
Abhishek Agarwal asked:

The forty eight regions, under the central government of America, offer multitude of employment schemes for the nation. If a person resides in one of the states and holds a qualification in tasks pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, there are better chances of the person to be employed under the state regime.

The vacancies of jobs have elevated due to employees retiring or resigning from the job. Hence the job prospects under the aid by the state’s regime, paves way of many aspirants who count to about three Somme of the population.

The US offers many government jobs. The employees under the regime constitute of more than 2% of the workers of US. They earn an income up to sixty thousand dollars per annum. These vacancies are applicable only to efficient and skilled professionals all around the world.

Developing metro cities and federations throng with job vacancies, especially with Multi National Companies showing their faces in over 200 places around the world. With various such prospects present, in various fields of profession, approximately three fourth of them opt for professional links. With the increase in competition, people with better technical know- how, skill and ability are more sought after. The various fields of occupations include managerial cadre, commercial activities and handling.

The methodology of government employment includes:

• Considering the curriculum vitae with cover letter instead of the application forms produced by the government;

• The opportunity of applying directly to the desired organization or company;

• Eliminating the required qualifications hundred and ten professionals under civil services and managerial cadre;

• Creating an online site to make the applying process easier;

• Availing touch screen mechanical devices, mechanical newsletters and telecommunication process for comfortably applying for the vacancy present; and

• Schemes for students to get a job, like, Student Temporary Employment scheme and Student Career Experience scheme.

We ought top update ourselves with the various changes in the government employment schemes and adapt to the procedures. These government jobs can be attained only by those who are efficient in all walks of life.

When opportunities knock at our doors, we should grab. Rather waiting for one, we should go in search of opportunities. For that, to win in this competent world, we should equip our knowledge with state affairs and be up to date with the happenings.

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