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As many of you have noticed, InfoMine has been developing its Spanish language content, primarily for the highly active Latin American market.
A key aspect of this development is the Spanish language home page which provides direct links to country-focused InfoMine sections such as the Chile, Argentina, Peru and Mexico pages.
In addition EduMine, the professional development section of InfoMine, has converted its courseware template to provide seamless multi-lingual functionality. A prototype Spanish version of the template is now available, as well as a small but growing number of Spanish courses.
But it is not just Spanish content that is growing...
InfoMine is proud to announce the launch of its Portuguese language home page, targeted particularly at the mining community in Brazil. InfoMine's Portuguese language service is run by Juliana Silva. Juliana is pleased to deal with all inquiries in Portuguese as well as Spanish, French and English.
In keeping with the expansion into more languages, the Buyers Guide in the Suppliers section has not been forgotten. We have added 2,176 new listings including a large number of Chilean suppliers as well as other Spanish and Portuguese suppliers - and the number is growing daily. For advertising in this section contact either Marcela or Juliana, both of whom will be delighted to assist you.
To meet the needs of the growing Asian market, InfoMine is also pleased to announce the launch of its Chinese language home page. InfoMine's Chinese language capabilities and sales to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan are spearheaded by Pouris Huang Shusheng, located in Beijing, China.
In addition during the upcoming month, InfoMine has plans to launch French and Russian language home pages - keep an eye on the InfoMine website for announcements when these pages go live.
Did you know that InfoMine delivered over 1.8 million pages of mining information to visitors in March 2004, up 10% from the previous month? This is such a large number that many people have difficulty comprehending exactly what it means in real terms.
Try thinking of it like this: if this amount of information was delivered on standard paper (i.e. the "old-fashioned" hardcopy way), it would be a stack approximately 600 ft (180 metres) high. The height of a sixty storey building!
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Here's a sample of the information on "Chromium" available on InfoMine. This is just an example of how our search provides excellent and pertinent results for any topic you wish to explore. Why not try your own favorite topic now? |
In order to better serve our mining audience as well as our advertisers, InfoMine will be discontinuing run-of-site banners in favour of fixed banners. The objective of this new format is to focus banners only on sections where they are applicable to the content. Not only will this new format provide more relevant banners for users but it will also increase the response to an advertiser's banner.
One section that has recently moved to this new format is the Suppliers section. Currently the Suppliers section is the third most visited section on InfoMine, with 293,000 page views in March. Two levels of fixed banners are now available on this section: one at the top of the page, and a second level of slightly smaller banners just below. Please click here to view examples of these banners. These Suppliers section banners, based on current traffic, will receive approximately 130,000 impressions per month or more than 1,500,000 impressions per year.
If you are interested in purchasing banners in the Suppliers section, please contact Lori Levesque.
 Paranumismatics are known by several names depending on which coalfield or even region of a coalfield they hailed from. Common names for such items include "Tokens", "Checks", "Tallies", "Motties", "Pins", "Tickets" or "Passes". They are also known by the common title of "Pit or Colliery Checks".
The vast number of these "tokens" emanated from the coal mining industry but the most commonly collected type of tokens were generally used at metal mines and some stone quarries. They were used for a wide variety of identification and tallying purposes.
Although these "tokens" were only in use for about one hundred years there are thousands of different types and their exact purpose or method of their use is still largely unknown!
The general purpose of these "tokens" was to eliminate theft. They were used as a form of currency to exchange for goods and services and as time and payment verification systems.
If you would like to know more about paranumismatics please click on this link.
If you have any interesting bits of mining "history" or trivia (particularly if you can produce a photograph) please share it with us. We would like to continue this segment in future editions our monthly InfoMiner.
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