rare! The Shaanxi Provincial Geological Survey found important dinosaur footprint fossils in northern Shaanxi

domestic

China has made significant progress in the field of deep shale gas exploration

On October 29, the reporter learned from the Information Office of Sinopec that Sinopec Exploration Branch deployed a key shale gas exploration well in the Dongxi Structure of Qijiang District, Chongqing City, dongshale deep 2 well, and on October 24, it tested 412,000 cubic meters of shale gas per day in a high-quality shale gas layer buried at a depth of 4,300 meters, marking a new major progress in the field of deep shale gas exploration with a burial depth of more than 4,000 meters, and showing the potential for increasing storage and production of more than 2 trillion cubic meters of deep shale gas resources in the southeast sichuan exploration area of Sinopec. According to the daily gas consumption of an ordinary family of three of about 0.5 square meters, the trial of 412,000 square meters of shale gas per day can meet the normal gas needs of about 820,000 households.

Map technology empowers red heritage conservation

In October 85 years ago, the Communist Party of China led the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to complete the world-renowned Long March, which lasted two years, spanned more than ten provinces, and traveled 25,000 miles. In recent years, red tourism has been set off along the Long March, but it also faces new problems and challenges: most of the existing Long March cultural relics are scattered. How to do a good job in their protection and management, while enhancing their attractiveness, China Map Publishing House has achieved nearly 10,000 views in the "Long March Cultural Relics Map" mini program to give the answer. The cultural relics resources of the Long March are comprehensively presented in the form of a spatio-temporal map, which plays an exemplary role in the protection, utilization and cultural dissemination of red heritage empowered by science and technology.

rare! The Shaanxi Provincial Geological Survey found important dinosaur footprint fossils in northern Shaanxi

On October 19-21, 2021, the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Geological Investigation invited well-known experts from the Institute of Southern Paleotheology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Jilin University and other authoritative institutions for the research and identification of dinosaur footprints, as well as more than 30 experts from the Xi'an Geological Survey Center of the China Geological Survey, Yan'an University and the Shaanxi Provincial Geological Survey Institute to carry out the investigation and identification of dinosaur footprint fossils in northern Shaanxi in Yan'an. After a two-day field expedition and indoor discussion, experts agreed that new breakthroughs have been made in investigation and research. The dinosaur footprint fossils found by the Shaanxi Provincial Geological Survey expand the geographical and stratigraphic distribution of dinosaur footprint fossils in China, laying a solid basis for the next step of discovering dinosaur skeleton fossils in northern Shaanxi. The fossils of dinosaur footprints found in Luojiagou and Fengjiawan in Ganquan County are of a very high value level, and some fossils also preserve extremely rare skin texture marks on dinosaur feet.

Satellite remote sensing monitors forest fires in Nyingchi, Tibet

At about 12:50 on October 27, a forest fire broke out in the gap village of Zhuwagen Town, Chayu County, Nyingchi City, Tibet Autonomous Region. The Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Center of the Ministry of Natural Resources launched emergency remote sensing monitoring, and while arranging the satellite shooting plan, it called up pre-disaster and post-disaster images and related data in the disaster area, extracted information such as traffic, terrain and fire conditions in the disaster area, and produced the location, terrain, road accessibility, remote sensing image map and fire monitoring map of the disaster area. The fire site is located on the top of the mountain opposite the Chayu River in the gap village of Zhuwagen Town, Chayu County, Nyingchi City, about 3 kilometers away from the gap village, about 2 kilometers away from Sangjiu Village, and close to the S201 Highway. It can be seen from the three-dimensional topography that the smoke near the fire site is thick and spreads along the valley, affecting the settlements on both sides of the valley and upstream and downstream.

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Zambia announced tax breaks for mining companies

Zambia announced tax breaks for mining companies, slashed budget deficit targets and said it expected debt restructuring talks with creditors to end early next year. On Friday, October 29, Zambia's finance minister, Musso Kotwane, told lawmakers that mining royalties would be allowed to be deducted from income tax. It was his party's first budget speech since its victory in the August election, but he did not announce a change in mining royalties. In 2019, Zambia implemented its tenth tax reform in 16 years. Mining lobbies have complained for years that not allowing deductions for mine royalties amounts to double taxation, discouraging investment. At present, depending on the price of copper, the floating proportion of mine royalties is 5.5% to 10%.

The International Aluminum Association released the 2050 global aluminum industry carbon reduction target

The International Aluminium Association (IAI) released a series of new data inventory reports on the decarbonization process of the global aluminum industry before the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Grasston, Scotland, and put forward the phased target of greenhouse gas emission reduction in the global aluminum industry in 2050 and its detailed decomposition target. The report notes that by 2050, the total global aluminum industry's carbon dioxide emissions need to be reduced by 77% compared to 2018, of which the carbon dioxide generated by alumina and electrolytic aluminum production will be significantly reduced. The report predicts that aluminium smelting should reduce carbon emissions by nearly 90 percent, from 823 million tons to 90 million tons.

Western Australian Rare Earth Development Corporation was approved

Hastings Technology Metals Ltd recently said that the federal government's Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Environment has completed environmental approval for the hydrometallurgical plant of the company's Yangibana rare earth project, which is located in the Gascoin region of Western Australia. Executive Chairman Charles Lew said the next step is to build. "This is an important milestone for our Yangibana rare earth project and further supports Hastings' decision last year to separate the processing plant from the Yangibana mine." Federal environmental approvals will allow Hastings to build an Onslow rare earth plant with an annual output of 15,000 tonnes of MREC, releasing the high-quality and ndpre-rich carbonate rare earths we will produce in Yangibana. ”

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