21.   He said potential projects could include oil and mineral exploration project, which require huge capital.

22.   Low oil prices, for example, has caused cuts in oil and mineral exploration and production that could seriously disrupt supplies in the future, Patterson said.

23.   New Zealand-based Spectrum Resources plans to raise several million dollars on the Vancouver stock exchange later this year to finance mineral exploration in Chile and Vietnam.

24.   Scams and spectacular failures are part of the landscape in an industry that leads the world in financing mineral exploration.

25.   With growing pressure from research teams, tourists and would-be mineral exploration, the treaty nations agree that more safeguards were needed.

26.   Frik van Heerden, a driller at a mineral exploration site, was attacked by the leopard after leaving his house, the weekly Mmegi newspaper said.

27.   BHP to quit exploration in up to a dozen countries and close several mineral exploration offices in North America, the Australian Financial Review reports.

28.   Western Australian Police Minister Bob Wiese said Thursday it was now clear that the chemicals were not used for mineral exploration, as had been claimed.

29.   Malaysian businessmen have ventured into mineral exploration and the development of agriculture and infrastructure in Mindanao, he added.

30.   Mineral exploration and civil aviation are also to be discussed.