Giant Crack in Africa Will Create a New Ocean By LiveScience Staff A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will likely become a new ocean eventually, researchers now confirm. The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005 and some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied. A new study involving an international... 

Feasibility study for Chalice Gold’s Koko deposit to be completed mid-2010 Mining Weekly By: Esmarie Swanepoel JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – East-African focused Chalice Gold on Monday reported that an independent scoping study into its Koko gold deposit, in Eritrea, has found that the deposit had the potential to underpin a highly profitable gold mining operation. The gold explorer... 

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Technically, An American Won The NYC Marathon…Kinda SB Nation by Sean Keeley • Nov 2, 2009 1:30 AM EST Yes, 2009 NYC Marathon winner Meb Keflezighi is a U.S. citizen and therefore that makes him the first American to win the race in 27 years.  American news outlets are falling all over themselves to talk this up.  It’s a wonderful achievement, no doubt.  ...