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Things to do in Dubai ? the city of gold and the architectural wonders

You will be spoilt for choice with things to do in Dubai, such as an excursion to the vast sand dunes, or strolling along the stunning beaches or shopping at the gold markets. Dubai is well known as one of the fastest growing cities in the world, backed by a booming oil industry, and claiming to some of the most exceptional architectural wonders defining its skylines.

Dubai offers many white sandy coasts, hotel beaches and public beaches, extending along Jumeira Road. If you are looking for a classy coastal experience then try the hotel beaches well furnished with posh amenities including lawns, swimming pools and refreshment outlets. If you prefer public beaches, you can visit Al Mamzar Park towards Deira, furnished with playgrounds, barbecue and picnic sites as well as refreshment kiosks.

Dubai is also known as the ‘City of Gold’ coined after the Gold Souq in Deira – the most popular gold bazaar in Dubai and the largest in the world. Souk/ Souq is an open-air marketplace. The gold sold here features exquisite elaborate designs, carefully priced according to their weight and workmanship.

If you are up for a relaxing holiday, how about going for a tee off at an exclusive golf course in Dubai? There are 2 lush courses namely the Dubai Creak Golf and Yacht Club sited along the shores of the Dubai Creek. The first grass course in the Middle East – the Emirates Golf Club – also lies towards the south of Dubai, which hosts the European PGA Desert Classic annually, where many topnotch players including Tiger Woods partake in the tournaments.

Among other things to do in Dubai, you can opt for an exciting aquatic sport hosted in Dubai beaches which includes jet-skiing, sailing, windsurfing, paragliding and water skiing. There are also diving facilities at some sites where divers from across the globe gather to explore shipwrecks of ancient times and the splendor of marine life.

If you are visiting Dubai, you would not want to miss its deserts. You can go for an exciting ride on a petite 4-wheeler, passing over the rolling sand dunes or better yet a night spent at an oasis watching the clear heavens teeming with countless stars, while reclining under a Bedouin style camp surrounded by camels.

For an exclusively sumptuous treat after a long day you can try one of the luxury Dubai hotels including the Grand Millennium Dubai, where they house classy restaurants serving delectable local and international cuisines. There are over 250 Dubai hotels furnished with modern amenities specifically oriented for the business and pleasure travelers alike.

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Hearts of gold: Olympians find ways to give to others

Hearts of gold: Olympians find ways to give to others
Many athletes lend their time, money and fame to charitable causes. Jeremy Bloom is unusual in that he walked away from what U.S. freestyle coach Jeff Wintersteen says was “a great chance” to compete in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics to fully focus on Wish of a Lifetime, helping elderly people who have been laid low.

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Guay one of favorites to claim gold for Canada

Guay one of favorites to claim gold for Canada
Try as he might, Canadian downhiller Erik Guay can’t ski away from the pressure.

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KTVN Channel 2 – Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video – Guay one of favorites to claim gold for Canada

KTVN Channel 2 – Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video – Guay one of favorites to claim gold for Canada
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) – Try as he might, Canadian downhiller Erik Guay can’t ski away from the pressure. It’s everywhere these days, trailing him, engulfing him.

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Downhiller Guay one of favorites to claim gold for Canada

Downhiller Guay one of favorites to claim gold for Canada
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. – Try as he might, Canadian downhiller Erik Guay can’t ski away from the pressure. It’s everywhere these days, trailing him, engulfing him. There’s pressure to satisfy his top sponsor. To live up to the hype that began when he burst on the scene a few seasons ago. To be a success for his country at the Vancouver Olympics in February. That last one, in particular, is building …

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Canada’s Guay a favorite to claim gold

Canada’s Guay a favorite to claim gold
BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Try as he might, Canadian downhiller Erik Guay can’t ski away from the pressure.

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Goldcliff’s 15 Ounces Gold Per Tonne

Goldcliff Resources (TSX.V:GCN) assayed a trenching sample from its 100% owned Panorama Ridge project that returned a value of over 15 ounces per tonne of gold. The bonanza grade sample was assayed twice to confirm the result, which has validated the company’s theory that there would be high grade zones encountered throughout broadly disseminated lower grade host rock.

In the Hedley gold camp, the gold mineralization occurs in altered (skarn) sedimentary beds.

At Panorama Ridge,very little of the gold mineralization is visible native gold, even in the Bonanza Trench intercept. In order to have these bonanza gold grades, a gold-telluride compound mineral is thought to be related to the high-grade gold values. Goldcliff is researching the mineralogical possibilities to identify the mineral that is attributed to the high-grade gold values.

The Bonanza Trench, located at the south-western portion of the York-Viking zone, is a major gold discovery. The high-grade gold discovery at Panorama Ridge is comparable to the high-grade gold mineralization mined underground at the Nickel Plate Mine. The high-grade gold beds occur within an overall mineralized sequence that is up to 200 metres in thickness. The lower grade gold portions of this sequence were successfully mined by Mascot Gold Mines’ open pit operation.

The geological setting at Panorama Ridge is similar to these previously successful settings. Goldcliff has been targeting the bulk-tonnage potential of Panorama Ridge with success. The Bonanza Trench gold results confirm the high-grade potential of the property.

Meanwhile, trenching in the Nordic Zone at Panorama Ridge has expanded the area of previously determined mineralization by an additional 175 metres. The Nordic Zone and the York-Viking Zones are roughly 400 metres apart.

The Nordic Zone contains gold values averaging 1.30 to 2.32 g/t with higher grades ranging to 26.50 g/t.

Goldcliff will continue trenching throughout the 2008 exploration season, and will complete the rest of its 10,000 metre core drilling program.

Famous for gold since the first discovery in 1897, and once a thriving mining boomtown during the 1900s, Hedley was one of the great names in Canadian mining, and was named after Robert R. Hedley, manager of the Hall Smelter in Nelson, who had grubstaked many of the original prospectors.

Prospectors noticed coloured striations in the cliffs and recognized them as ore-bearing. Claims staked here were to expose one of the richest fractions in the history of mining in British Columbia. The mines were located high on mountaintops overlooking the town of Hedley below, and an aerial tramway 3 kilometres long had to be built to remove the ore.

The great northern railroad pushed through to Hedley in 1909, and the Nickel Plate mine continued to spew out rich ore at the rate of more than 50,000 ounces per year. The Mascot Fraction joined the action in 1936, to increase the total area production to more than 1.5 million ounces of gold and more than 4 million pounds of copper, significantly enriching the shareholders.

The Hedley Basin has had a long history of gold production (1904 to 1996) from the Hedley North mining district. During this period, 78,506,148 grams (2,524,313 ounces) of gold were produced from auriferous skarn deposits. The Nickel Plate and Hedley-Mascot mines produced more than 97 per cent of the gold from a single gold-skarn deposit (Nickel Plate deposit). Smaller production came from the French, Good Hope and Canty gold skarns. A small amount of gold production came from the Banbury quartz-carbonate veins (Maple Leaf and Pine Knot) located in Hedley Basin South.

The Mascot and Nickel Plate mines eventually fell under the ownership of Mascot Gold Mines Ltd, which traded from a start of $0.45 to a high of $20.63 on Tuesday August 4th, 1987.

Access to the Panorama Ridge property from Hedley is via Highway 3 by turning northeasterly onto the Old Hedley Road (Nickel Plate Mine Road) 2.5 kilometres east of Hedley. Alternatively, access from Keremeos or Penticton is via Highway 3A along the Green Mountain Road and the Apex Mountain Ski Hill Road. The Old Hedley Road public road passes through the northern portion of the property.

A number of logging and mining roads give excellent access to most areas of the property. The Winters Creek Forest Access road and their branches access the eastern and south eastern portions of the property. The West Cahill Forest Access Road accesses the western portion of the property (Skar prospect). The Good Hope Mine road accesses the south western portion of the property while the East Cahill Forest Access road accesses the Nordic, Spar, York and Slope prospects.

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Skiing Gold Rush at Mountain High East

Skiing with my daughter at Mountain High. Video by Robert Tsou. … Robert Tsou skiing Mountain High East Gold Rush

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