It will be run by a unified board and management team headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, although there will be a significant corporate management centre in London. UK-basedpump manufacturer, Weir Group, reports that it has completed its largest ever order for the mining industry. The start of trading is scheduled for December 2000. The core business of Geo Inside is that of moderated matchmaking between supply and demand. Offers and inquiries are anonymous.
Trading partners communicate online or, on request, by fax, letter, etc.
As soon as interest in trading arises and both parties desire the lifting of anonymity, Geo Inside names the trading partners. Pictured at the Multotec display are Johan Engelbrecht of Multotec with delegates from Iran and Turkey. Russian researchers are planning to tap the rare metal rhenium from an active volcano in the Kurile Archipelago north of Japan. In 1992, scientists from the Institute of Experimental Mineralogy in Chernogolovka discovered fragments of a new rhenium mineral, composed of pure rhenium sulphide, in the crater of the volcano Kudriavy. The emissions from Kudriavy were subsequently found to contain up to 6 g of rhenium per litre of condensed gas - ten times as much as the average volcano.