PVW Resources (ASX:PVW) has signed an agreement to acquire Brazil-registered Scanty Mineraco which holds a “highly prospective” portfolio of rare earth element projects across four areas in Brazil.  that have been identified and selected with the support of independent Brazilian geological consultants The project areas include the Poços De Caldas Alkaline Complex and the Bahia Rare Earth Province.  PVW Resources has paid Scanty $50,000 as an exclusivity fee and will also issue 40 million shares and 120 million performance rights as well as pay $600,000 in reimbursement of expenses incurred to date in respect of the projects.  PVW will also pay $1.5 million to Scanty.  Scanty will enter into a royalty deed with the Brazil-domiciled Scanty vendors for a 1.5% net smelter return royalty.  The acquisition is subject to PVW satisfying due diligence investigations and obtaining all necessary shareholder approvals.  Non-executive Chairman George Bauk says the company sees these projects as an opportunity to grow its presence in the evolving critical minerals landscape globally.  “The acquisition of strategically located rare earth element projects in Brazil allows us to gain a foothold in a highly prospective and stable region which has recently established itself at the forefront of the rare earth industry globally,” Bauk says.  Scanty has highlighted the Capão Bonito and Sguario projects as first priority projects within the package Initial work completed to date includes portable x-ray fluorescence field testing which indicates anomalous rare earths at surface within saprolite granite outcrops.  Historical exploration results will be reported once due diligence and validation of results are completed which is expected to happen by the end of this calendar year.  PVW has also been granted to enter into a trading halt pending the release of an announcement regarding a transaction for the acquisition of a rare earths project and associated funding via a placement.  The company will remain in a trading halt until the announcement is released or the opening of trading on 30 July 2024.  PVW Resources is a diversified resources company focused on its project portfolio that spans tier one mining jurisdictions in Western Australia’s Tanami Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au    Unico Silver makes ‘multiple new discoveries’ at Cerro Leon Unico Silver (ASX:USL) says the final results from phase-two diamond drilling at.. 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services in Santa Catarina responded to hundreds of calls for assistance during the storm Over 1 million people were left without electricity after winds downed power lines Chapecó; Santo Amaro da Imperatriz; Governor Celso Ramos; Islet; Itaiópolis and Rio dos Cedros One person was reported missing in Brusque Although full details are yet to be confirmed it appears most of the deaths were a result of wind damage According to the Civil Defence in the state of Rio Grande do Sul 1,119 people and 921 homes were affected by rain and strong winds across the country Over 500 people were evacuated in Vacaria and 400 in Capão Bonito do Sul One fatality was also reported in the state of Rio Grande do Sul where heavy rain in Nova Prata is thought to have triggered a landslide that buried a construction worker the cyclone affected 3,127 people in 30 cities damaging over 600 houses and forcing at least 81 people to temporarily leave their homes Warnings remain in place for storm surge and coastal flooding in Santa Catarina So far the heaviest of the rainfall occurred in Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul Civil Defence said the heavy rain brought by the storm has increased river levels The Ijuí and Gravataí rivers are close to flood levels The Sinos River is already above the flood stage near Campo Bom and is expected to rise further — Defesa Civil RS (@defesacivilrs) July 1, 2020 Cookies | Privacy | Contacts © Copyright 2025 FloodList the program's biodiversity research has provided a scientific foundation for creating conservation areas and increasing sustainable development in São Paulo considered one of the least polluted in the state of São Paulo when its approximately 1,000 springs and streams became part of the Nascentes do Paranapanema State Park the conservation unit contains and protects the rich flora and fauna of the Atlantic Forest in the municipality of Capão Bonito—230 kilometers distant from the city of São Paulo—where jaguars even the extremely rare bush dog (Speothos venaticus) still roam This March three specimens of the canid were captured by the lenses of a camera trap installed in the region by Fundação Florestal an agency of the Secretariat for Infrastructure and Environment (SIMA) of the state of São Paulo A year prior to establishing the reserve in Capão Bonito four conservation units were created in the Serra da Cantareira region: Itaberaba State Park and the Pedra Grande Natural State Monument Léo Ramos Chaves BIOTA studies have estimated that the value of ecosystem services such as pollination provided by bees can be as high as R$65 billion per year in BrazilLéo Ramos Chaves A workshop involving 160 researchers from public and private universities and research institutes in the state of São Paulo was held in November 2006 to meet this demand which resulted in the publication of a book that still has an impact to this day the Fundação Florestal board was led by agronomist Maria Cecília Wey de Brito who had participated in BIOTA’s original conception from 1996 to 1999 “It was her appearance on the committee that catalyzed this process of translating the data into a more useful format for decision makers,” Joly emphasizes who is today a project coordinator at Ekos Brasil Institute the workshop and the publication it generated were important milestones for the sector “Out of this event came the proposition of making viable public policy based on the science produced by BIOTA,” the agronomist observes According to biologist Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture at the University of São Paulo (ESALQ-USP) who is also a member of BIOTA’s pioneer steering committee the book’s production took close to two years and included the development of 27 thematic maps and 3 synthesis maps identified knowledge gaps regarding biodiversity in São Paulo could be converted into conservation units seven conservation units have been created so far,” Rodrigues says The third of the synthesis maps showed the fragments of native vegetation existing on private properties whose characteristics did not justify conversion into Fully Protected Conservation Units This is not to say that these areas were less valuable Protecting and interconnecting these fragments to restore ecological corridors is vital for biodiversity Surveys conducted within the BIOTA framework by researchers from ESALQ and the USP Biosciences Institute (IB) indicate that 78% of the natural vegetation in the state of São Paulo is found on private property Gustavo Muniz Dias / IB-Unicamp Tunicate colonies of Symplegma rubra…Gustavo Muniz Dias / IB-Unicamp Tatiana Menchini Steiner / IB-Unicamp  …and the worm variety Diopatra cuprea marine species identified on the north coast of São PauloTatiana Menchini Steiner / IB-Unicamp  the Araçá Bay project also left a legacy for the academic field: the data on marine fauna in the state of São Paulo that were collected in the study Amaral is working on developing the second volume of the Manual de identificação dos invertebrados marinhos da região Sudeste-Sul do Brasil (Identification manual for marine invertebrates in the Southeastern and Southern regions of Brazil) which will be augmented with material from a variety of research projects she is coordinator of another BIOTA initiative whose goal is to conduct taxonomic refinement work on the Zoology Museum collection at the UNICAMP Institute of Biology and fill in any gaps in the identification of collected species The results will be available on the SpeciesLink collaborative network which was developed by BIOTA and is coordinated by the Reference Center for Environmental Information (CRIA) a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest (OSCIP) (a type of government-registered NGO) created in 2000 a system began being developed to receive and share species-occurrence data for holdings in biological collections throughout the state of São Paulo the SpeciesLink network includes collections not only from São Paulo but from all over the country and abroad,” says Dora Ann Lange Canhos CRIA’s director and one of BIOTA’s founding scientists the network has 1.2 million records on more than 28,000 different species found in São Paulo State “This entire collection is available online to public managers and has been used in various ways such as in the production of threatened species lists and conservation policies,” Canhos observes Solutions in nature “The BIOTA program has an enormous amount of data all of which are freely accessible,” points out biologist Jean Paul Metzger “By synthesizing the data generated in the field and the lab and foster transformative research at the border between science and politics,” says Metzger who is leading a new approach for BIOTA that has the potential to increase the program’s impact in society this nascent line of work aims to collaboratively analyze the available data on a specific subject and use the resulting set of multidisciplinary data in the search for solutions to socio-environmental problems The research carried out within its scope must meet SIMA requirements as well as those of the state’s Department of Agriculture and Supply BIOTA Synthesis is divided into five thematic groups: pollination and agricultural productivity; forest-based economy and restoration; water security in the face of climate change; regulation of zoonotic diseases; and disease prevention in urban areas “It’s important to make it clear that initiatives like the synthesis center aren’t going to replace our data collection and biodiversity characterization projects They’re just going to add a new type of activity,” Joly emphasizes © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved Umê (Prunus mume) is a fruit practically unknown to Brazilians but widely consumed in Asian countries (and by their immigrants) less for its flavor and more for its nutraceutical properties – nutraceutical foods are those that have been proven to be good for your health especially in the form of an extremely salty and sour preserve (umeboshi) and a full-bodied liqueur considered relaxing (umeshu) Chinese and Koreans are convinced that umê improves blood fluidity reduces the risk of heart problems and combats the formation of free radicals and the multiplication of cancer cells Food engineer Ernesto Quast saw umê trees for the first time when he worked in Capão Bonito as a scientific researcher at the São Paulo Agribusiness Technology Agency (APTA) he first tried to remove the bitterness from the unripe fruits by fermenting them in a brine solution Without success and without equipment to control the process he took around 10 kilos of umê to Campinas “I forgot the fruits in the car for three days the fruits took on a yellow color and an odor similar to peach who observed the considerable decrease in bitterness and acidity the ripe fruits were used to produce jelly umê had to be diluted to reduce its acidity without the need to add pectin,” she assures did he discover the traditional form of consumption by Easterners and that Brazilian literature addresses umê only as a rootstock for crops of greater economic importance: peaches nectarines and plums (all also from the Prunus genus) “An important characteristic of umê is its agricultural rusticity and ease of adaptation and it can even be cultivated commercially without the use of chemical pesticides.” As there are no studies on the processing of mature umê this was precisely Ernesto Quast's focus in the doctoral thesis defended in April under the guidance of professor Flávio Luís Schmidt at the Faculty of Food Engineering (FEA) at Unicamp “As the acidity and bitterness are above what is accepted by our consumers I looked for a way to Brazilianize the fruit – industrial processing makes it possible to adjust its original characteristics Ernesto Quast's main work was the characterization and physical-chemical and rheological evaluations (such as viscosity) of the national umê pulp with two purposes: the production of the nectar itself and taking advantage of the similarities in flavor and aroma “I analyzed the content of phenolic compounds in green and ripe umé comparing these two values ​​with those found in international literature – China and Japan study green umê extensively but I am unaware of any studies on the ripe fruit I found that mature umê presents a 20% drop in the level of phenolic compounds a small variation that does not affect the strong market appeal due to its antioxidant capacity.” it could be good for reducing the production costs of peach nectar is that the industry imports 100% of peach pulp from Chile as the national fruit does not have favorable characteristics for nectar production sugar content and total titratable acidity Promoting a mixture would reduce the cost of national juice and add nutritional advantages to umê But my focus is really on nectar: ​​I want to come up with a different product I also developed a version containing micro-restructured pulp in order to offer a different sensorial experience.” The author of the thesis analyzed umê fruits from four different locations in the State of São Paulo in order to verify the variation between the cultivars brought more than 20 years ago by Japanese and Chinese descendants and compare these national fruits with those from Asian countries who carry out genetic improvement work to increase yield “The national umê is well behind in terms of size and mass while the Asian one is between 15 and 30 grams is to import seedlings that have already been genetically improved.” the researcher collected reports in Brazilian literature about the various agronomic advantages of growing umê in the country such as lower susceptibility to diseases common in stone fruit crops and the reduction in plant size which allows for greater densification of culture “The resistance of this plant is impressive I met a farmer who introduced 40 umê trees onto his land but to serve as a windbreak in his commercial plum plantation He guaranteed that he did not use any defensive on Umê's feet The umê trees resisted and the plum trees all died.” it would be hasty to say that large-scale production of umê is viable the umê plant produces five times less than the peach plant; with a more adapted cultivar and greater care it is very likely that productivity will increase considerably an umê product will have greater added value with the justification of being organic and beneficial to health.” it is also necessary to observe whether larger-scale production of umê would not encourage the development of any specific crop pest “The fact is that we are not going to stay on paper I'm currently working at the Federal University of Fronteira do Sul (UFFS) and I've already spoken with colleagues from the agronomy course to start experiments aimed at cultivating umê There is a concentration in the states of São Paulo and Paraná as its cultivation is exclusively Japanese or Chinese I still haven’t found anyone who has an umê tree and isn’t a descendant.” Food engineer Ernesto Quast believes that the results obtained in the doctoral thesis defended at Unicamp can help direct future work towards the valorization of foods produced from ripe umê fruits as well as the genetic improvement of national varieties the green umê fruit is already widely studied in Eastern countries the author concludes in the thesis that the content of phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity did not show significant variation during fruit maturation Quast collected information published in international scientific articles that concentrated umê juice has the ability to increase the fluidity of human blood in part due to the presence of organic acids in high quantities and a substance called mumefral formed during heating the extract to its concentration – this can help prevent cardiovascular diseases and exert anti-cancer action other research shows that ingesting concentrated umê extract can inhibit the endogenous formation of nitrosamines carcinogenic substances formed in the human body after a meal rich in amines and nitrates.  The researcher also points out studies recording that the addition of umê extract can inhibit the formation of free radicals in the initiation phase of the oxidation of oils and unsaturated fats in meat would reduce the incidence of unpleasant odors resulting from lipid oxidation reactions (warmed-over flavor) with the production of derivatives from umê and with the knowledge of its physical-chemical characteristics depending on process parameters it is possible to develop safe and ready-to-consume products combining a low need for the use of agricultural pesticides Thesis: “Evaluation of physicochemical and functional properties in the integral processing of umê (Prunus mume)”Author Ernesto QuastAdvisor: Flávio Luís SchmidtUnity: Faculty of Food Engineering (FEA) How do I purchase some seedlings of this plant (umê (Prunus mume))?