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  • The deal, OZ's largest 100% acquisition since it emerged from the wreckage of the merger between Oxiana Ltd. and Zinifex Ltd. after the global financial crisis, could more than double the company's resources of copper and gold and consolidate its land holdings in the Gawler Craton, a geological region of South Australia which also holds OZ's main Prominent Hill asset and BHP Billiton Ltd.'s massive Olympic Dam mine.

    OZ Minerals Buys Copper Project David Fickling 2011

  • Second Rotation Inc., which does business as Gazelle.com, has raised a $22 million round of funding led by Craton Equity Partners to grow its business of collecting used electronics and reselling them.

    GE's Big Bet On Small Firms Yuliya Chernova 2011

  • BridgeLux Inc., a Livermore, Calif., developer of light-emitting-diode technologies, closed on $60 million toward a new financing round led by Craton Equity.

    GE's Big Bet On Small Firms Yuliya Chernova 2011

  • It's a bigger and better step than the one they made for Sandfire and it reinforces their strategy of being in the Gawler Craton, she said.

    OZ Minerals Buys Copper Project David Fickling 2011

  • When the island arc, Avalonia, crashed into the North American Craton, it was pulled along by a subduction zone, which was locked up as the less dense island rocks didn't get subducted.

    Archive 2004-04-01 Andrew 2004

  • When the island arc, Avalonia, crashed into the North American Craton, it was pulled along by a subduction zone, which was locked up as the less dense island rocks didn't get subducted.

    worlds in a grain of sand Andrew 2004

  • Considerable geophysical and geochemical evidence, however, suggests that the Sino-Korean craton had been decratonized and that the ancient lithospheric mantle beneath the Chinese portion of the eastern Sino-Korean Craton was replaced by thinner, hotter, juvenile mantle during the Jurassic to early Cretaceous period.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • The license agreement obligated Rome, Ga. -based Craton to pay royalties to the city equal to 35 percent of gross sales, but no less than $25,000 for merchandise sold in the stadium locations and no less than $25,000 for merchandise sold in the Pepsi Pavilion.

    Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010

  • The license agreement obligated Rome, Ga. -based Craton to pay royalties to the city equal to 35 percent of gross sales, but no less than $25,000 for merchandise sold in the stadium locations and no less than $25,000 for merchandise sold in the Pepsi Pavilion.

    Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2010

  • Congo (DRC) to acquire fifteen (15) diamond Exploration Permits in the diamond Craton in the

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

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