Humble nickel from 1913 likely to fetch millions By STEVE SZKOTAK | Associated Press – 1 hr 4 mins ago Expensive auction items RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A humble 5-cent coin with a storied past is headed to auction and bidding is expected to top $2 million a century after it was mysteriously minted. The 1913 Liberty Head nickel is one of only five known to exist, but it's the coin's back story that adds to its cachet: It was surreptitiously and illegally cast, discovered in a car wreck that killed
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allow some contaminants to be deposited into the sediments. For each of the three lakes, sediment samples are taken from ten different locations within each of the lakes. The sediment samples are examined for five particular metals. These are Nickel (Ni), Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Arsenic (As) and Lead (Pb). The purpose of this report is to find out what the level of each metal contaminant in each of the lakes and compare the level against Australian and New Zealand Guidelines for Fresh and
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Digging In 2.2: Archaeological Potential and Archaeological Resources In Ontario, provincial policy allows development or alteration to lands which have archaeological resources or are areas of archaeological potential only if a licensed professional archaeologist assesses such sites and significant archaeological resources are conserved. The province outlines criteria which the archaeologist uses to determine if an area has archaeological potential, meaning that the area is likely to contain some
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[pic] • What is an alloy? An alloy is a mixture or metallic solid solution composed of two or more elements. Complete solid solution alloys give single solid phase microstructure, while partial solutions give two or more phases that may or may not be homogeneous in distribution, depending on thermal (heat treatment) history. Alloys usually have different properties from those of the component elements. Alloy constituents are usually measured by mass. Alloys are usually classified as substitutional
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ADSORPTION PROPERTIES OF ANTHRANILIC ACID CONTAINING POLYMERIC RESINS FOR SEPARATION OF METAL IONS Pathik Shah*, Pradeep Upadhyaya. Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET), Ahmedabad pathikas@gmail.com SYNTHESIS OF RESIN BY MICROWAVE IRRADIATION In the first step, Anthranilic acid (0.1 mol) was taken in a 250 mL threenecked round bottom fitted with a stirrer, a thermometer and a condenser and was dissolved in DMF solvent (20 mL). To that formaldehyde (0.3 mol as
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Gold Nickel Chromite Polymetallic Processing Plant OPERATING MINES 7 Major Mines: Masbate Gold Operation of Filminera Lepanto’s Victoria and Teresa Gold Mines Philex’s Padcal Copper Mine Rapu-rapu Polymetallic Project. Banahaw Gold Project, Philsaga Mining Corp. Carmen Copper Project Canatuan Copper-Zinc Project of TVI Resources 1 Medium-scale Chromite Mines Redondo Project of Krominco, Inc. 10 Medium-scale Nickel Mines Cagdianao Mining Corporation, Dinagat Province Berong Nickel Project
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After reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and watching the documentary Roger and Me, it’s easy to compare the desperation the people seem to have in both of these circumstances. Barbara Ehrenreich wrote Nickel and Dimed to demonstrate the desperation of the jobs that an unskilled worker has. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any
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The non-fiction book Nickel and Dimed, written by Barbara Ehrenreich, expressed the harsh reality of American poverty from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. The idea had begun as a discussion between her and an editor, who suggested the idea to her around the time that welfare reform was becoming set into place, yet, she was originally unsure, due to the fact that her own parents suffered from actual poverty. Also, she was unaware of whether or not she was capable enough to handle it too, yet she
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federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. A full-time minimum wage employee earns $15,080 annually. In 2012, the poverty threshold for a single person was $11,945. For a family of four with two children, it was $22,283” -University of California-Davis. In Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich tells a powerful and tenacious story of the day to day survival of low-income workers in America. Her story transcends the disparity that exists between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
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The author of the book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich argues that many people, like the rich want to buy more housing communities and for the poor it makes their days harder, it’s like the poor and rich are in competition with each other but obviously the rich is winning. She explains that do to the sock prices going up today, the rich have made it big time, running more businesses and the people who have low-income have to deal with expensive housing and its harder for them to get transportation
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