Archive for February, 2010

Diamonds: the investor’s best friend?

Diamonds are rare, beautiful, valuable and famous as girl’s best friends, but traditionally they are not considered a separate class of assets, enjoying the same rights as the rest, the portal www.wealth-bulletin.com writes. Diamonds do not share the status of “asylum”, which has the gold, and the price for diamonds is more volatile than prices [...]

Russian microbiologists forced bacteria to extract gold.

Bacteria “In the XV century, people have learned how to get copper out of the blue streams, which flow from the mountains. But the mechanism of Vatting of non-ferrous metals from sulphide ores was understood much later, in the XX century, – says head of the Laboratory of the chemolithotrophs Microorganisms of the Institute of [...]