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Ultimately the industry is likely to be dominated by a handful of producers of more than 100m tonnes a year.

The team has shown that the Omani peridotite absorbs tens of thousands of tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, far more than anyone had thought.

Vedanta hopes the refinery will produce at least one million tonnes of alumina a year.

It is one of Europe's busiest waterways, a formidable conduit that handles millions of tonnes of traffic a year.

Surveys suggest that it consists of at least 240m tonnes at a purity of 2. 3%, which would make it a world-class deposit.

They soon realised that this was not clever and got together to hammer out an agreement to limit central-bank sales to 400 tonnes a year.

The very gas we are busy pumping into the air at the rate of 30bn tonnes a year, mostly by burning fossil fuels.

He later told Reuters that refining production capacity was a few thousand tonnes a year.

A large proportion of the gold is in London, according to figures in the proposal document, with the Bank of England holding 99. 2 tonnes.

Up to 20, 000 tonnes of coal a week is dug at the site and the bulk of it goes to the Aberthaw power station, near Cardiff.

Rio is in an expansion phase and in the next few years they should go over 300m tonnes [of iron ore a year].

The Arrow was over two tonnes in weight and was the length of two double decker buses.

This painstaking process yields five tonnes a year, but he cannot bear to sell a gram of it.

Their answer was that it could, but it would require 1. 4 billion tonnes of seawater to be converted into spray each year.

5 tonnes of gold bullion was effectively stolen from the bank with the help of private militia and a phone call from President Ben Ali.

Nimbus is a quickly deployable system that can be flown to any part of the world and can carry up to 18 tonnes of dispersant.

"I've read that if the output of coal-to-liquid plants could reach 50 million tonnes a year, then China's energy problems would be solved. "

The company was originally planning to boost aluminium output from 4m tonnes to 7m tonnes but at least some of this has been put on ice.

Its future should not be jeopardised for the sake of a few billion dollars of soyabean subsidies or a few million tonnes of beef imports.

He said Venezuela still has about 200 tonnes of gold abroad, which will also be repatriated back to the country.

The recent discovery in Nairobi of two and a half tonnes of gold, worth around $100m, led to an investigation by Kenya's revenue authority.

It was not clear what type of herbivore it was but scientists estimated it could have been up to 35 metres long and weighing 10 tonnes.

By some estimates China alone might use 26m tonnes a year within a decade and a half.

If you cycle everywhere rather than taking public transport you could shrink your carbon footprint by 0. 3 tonnes a year.

The first cable will likely be a quarter-inch thick, with the elevator capable of lifting 20 tonnes at a time, launching once per day.

With no properly established spot market for the material, though, some buyers are paying more than $300 per kg for a few tonnes of silicon.

Anyone taking all these flights over a year might rack up a carbon footprint totalling more than 35 tonnes.

million Its permit allows it to take in a million tonnes of waste a year.

The German said the switch to energy saving bulbs could save about 25 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.

Without nuclear power and with other fuels filling in its share pro rata, emissions from generation would have been about 11 billion tonnes.

While stocks were as high as 3. 5m tonnes two years ago, "we believe it has now been exhausted" , he said.

Altogether, such interventions would add up to about 54m tonnes of less reactive nitrogen, about 28% of what was created in 2005.

It now averages more than 7m tonnes a year, enough to meet 60% of Egypt's needs.

It is to carbon dioxide as a furnace to a candle: one kilogram of the stuff causes as much warming as 23 tonnes of carbon dioxide.

With her legs crushed under tonnes of rubble, rescuers had feared infection would set in and prove fatal.

Others aim to be. China, the world's biggest producer at around 130m tonnes a year, is largely self-sufficient.

Next year more than 100m tonnes of plastic will be created and much of it will end up in our oceans.

China recently completed its branch of Russia's Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean pipeline , which will supply 15m tonnes of crude a year .

Its permit allows it to take in a million tonnes of waste a year.

The plant-eating marsupial would have been the size of a four-wheel drive car and weighed three tonnes, experts say.

We divided the gold reserves (in tonnes) held by central bank with the currency in circulation (in bn dollars) of that country.

International shipping and aviation could further reduce the global total by at least half a billion tonnes.

Letterpress kit is not dainty, and Ms Durrie has built custom cabinetry to hold and balance a few tonnes of type and presses.

If the new agreement is signed, China would overtake Japan, which buys about 8m tonnes a year, and become Qatar's main gas customer.

Just 161, 000 tonnes of it has been mined in the history of the world: barely enough to fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools.

By 2011 it expects to produce 77m tonnes a year, providing half as much energy as Saudi Arabia's oil output.

Rio confirmed that its Australian iron ore mines were producing at a maximum capacity of 200m tonnes a year.

Heavy-duty helicopter refers to one with a takeoff weight of at least 20 tonnes.

It could easily rise to several hundred tonnes if investors perceive that China's monetary growth is going to produce higher inflation.

Dr Angel estimates that the total mass of the sunshade required would be around 20m tonnes.

The company has a longer-term goal of 330m tonnes a year.

Despite this, China's China's largest producer of baby milk formula allowed around 900 tonnes of milk to leave its dairies .

Villages would have to be constructed, pipelines laid and millions of tonnes of contaminated waste buried.

Cathay estimates that climbing up and down the wall costs airlines 100, 000 tonnes in unnecessary fuel burn every year.

Britain imports more than half a million tonnes of the oil a year.

And the earth would be spared a huge amount of emitted carbon: by one calculation, as much as 75m tonnes over the next 30 years.

At the moment, rubber tracks can support only vehicles weighing less than 20 tonnes.

The core of a nuclear power plant demands huge steel forgings that weigh up to 240 tonnes.

China Oriental's main asset is a mid-sized steel mill in the north of the country that produces 4m tonnes a year.

A hectare of rice paddy in Vietnam will produce 20 tonnes of rice a year, whereas a Haitian hectare yields just one tonne.

CHURCHILL MINING, a London-listed firm, announced in May 2008 that it had found 150m tonnes of coal in Indonesian Borneo.

Historically movements total about 1 million tonnes moving down-bound through the key locks over the next few weeks.

The experts say about half a trillion tonnes of carbon have been consumed since the industrial revolution.

His Guangxi Hong Yan Food enterprise now produces 300 tonnes of goose liver a year, all for local consumption.

Abdullah al-Attiyah, the energy minister, said the Gulf state already sold 5m tonnes of LNG to China.

In Brazil, recycling already makes $2 billion a year while avoiding 10 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, UNEP said.

China Oriental's main asset is a mid-sized steel mill in Northern China that produces 4m tonnes of steel a year.

About 70 percent of the stocks in LME warehouses -- 3. 15 million tonnes -- is thought to be tied up in financing deals until May 2010.

But the biggest projects, designed to produce more than 200, 000 tonnes of pulp a year, generally seek funds from overseas.

They can barely dig it out fast enough to meet demand. Rio Tinto plans to double its 2007 iron-ore production (160m tonnes) in four years.

The reserves are still well below the 150m tonnes of a decade ago and would be irrelevant if countries restrict exports again.

The Caesium-137 may be buried in a scrap yard under tonnes of metal, and local officials believe it could have been melted down.

It can weigh up to 400 tonnes and enterprising captains can mount swivel cannons on her hull to ward off pirates.

Even if China were to treble its holding of 600 tonnes it would still have change from a month's foreign exchange accumulation.

In the next year, aid workers say, North Korea may fall short of at least 800, 000 tonnes of grain.

Smith suggested the company could possibly ramp up production to 40, 000 tonnes within the next 18 months.

The US government's geological survey put production at six tonnes a year during 2004 and 2005, down slightly from previous years.

The Daedalus spacecraft weighed around 50, 000 tonnes, almost all of which would have been a very rare Helium isotope called Helium-3.

This contrasts with the common fisheries policy of the EU, whose members' 88, 000 boats together catch about 5m tonnes of fish a year.

The world's forests act as a natural trap for carbon emissions, sucking up some 4. 8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.

Last month the Bank of France said it would sell 500 tonnes in coming years.

It means an extra BILLION TONNES of CO2 a year is created, according to World Health Organisation estimates of overweight people.

A rocket fired from the town hall was the cue for start of the event for which local authorities provided 120 tonnes of tomatoes.

The FAO estimates that destitute North Korea needs about 5. 1 million tonnes of grain a year for food, animal feed and seed.

Bellzone says its Kalia deposit could initially yield 50m tonnes of iron ore a year.

It is anticipated that Linzhou Aluminum will be able to provide to the Group not less than 35, 000 tonnes of billets annually.

Industry officials said the smelter's capacity could be 300, 000 tonnes per year.

On August 10th Mr Putin got behind the controls of a plane dropping 12 tonnes of water on two fires. "Was that a hit? "

The UK has pledged to reduce carbon emissions by 7m tonnes a year after this time.

But he saw the possibility of Indian annual steel output and demand moving up to 100m-200m tonnes in the next five to 10 years.

Up to 26, 000 tonnes of coffee, worth more than $40m, have been affected by mould at warehouses in the Italian port city of Trieste.

Extracting a single ounce of gold requires the removal of at least 60 tonnes of rock, leaving a scar on the landscape.

In this large recycling plant alone, the plastic waste from millions of batteries amounts to 14, 000 tonnes a year.

This would be achieved by closing those with an annual output of less than 300, 000 tonnes.

But Shell has estimated there could be up to 660 tonnes still in the affected pipeline.

To feed itself, North Korea needs 5. 5m tonnes of grain a year. It cannot produce anything like this, even with a bumper harvest last year.

China burns over 2 billion tonnes of coal a year, and demand increases by about 10 percent each year, analysts say.

In 2004 , almost two million tonnes of raw potatoes - or 37 percent of the total harvest - were needed to meet export demand .

Pakistanis consume an estimated 22m tonnes of wheat annually, and last season's yield was more than 23m tonnes.

Analysts have estimated that companies could generate up to 1bn tonnes worth of credits.

Decommissioning of a store for oil with a storage capacity exceeding 200 tonnes .

On top of that, additional off-warrant stocks are estimated at about 4 million tonnes, analysts say.

At the other, Tavan Tolgoi, coal production is projected to expand from 16m tonnes a year to a staggering 240m tonnes by 2040.

Mexican authorities seized a shipment of 134 tonnes of marijuana destined for the United States, the largest single capture on record.

Among industrial damage was the collapse of two chemical plants, spilling 80 tonnes of liquid ammonia, according to Xinhua news agency.

By 2015 Ponta da Madeira, Vale's private port, will be Brazil's largest by tonnage, exporting 230m tonnes of iron ore a year.

tonnes to cover a production shortfall and yesterday confirmed it would tap emergency stocks maintained by Vietnam and Thailand.

The ESSO LPG spheres shall be reduced to less than 200 tonnes per sphere during the felling process.

With an annual cereal shortfall of about 1m tonnes, the UN estimates that about a quarter of the population is starving.

Macquarie Bank estimates that 200-300, 000 tonnes a year of lead capacity remains offline due to the crisis.

Decommissioning of the underground diesel oil tanks with a total storage capacity exceeding 200 tonnes.

They moved an estimated 140 tonnes of rubbish - a spokesman for Westminster Council said horse manure was the "biggest issue" .

At the moment, the world's oceans absorb a million tonnes of carbon dioxide an hour.

The country has huge unused production capacity of around 7m tonnes a year.

On November 3rd the central bank said it had bought 200 tonnes of gold from the IMF, a purchase that would have cost about $6. 7 billion.

In the current surge of urbanisation and dam building, billions of tonnes of concrete have been poured onto farm fields and into rivers.

It produces 4m tonnes of high-quality coal a year, using the latest British and German machinery.

The new Port of Longview grain terminal will handle 8m tonnes a year.

The energy-saving capacity will be increased by an equivalent of 80 million tonnes of standard coal.

It now holds 1, 232 tonnes of the yellow metal, mined by its inventors and reburied in the vaults of HSBC in London.

He cited the case of Suzhou city each year more than produced million tonnes of waste paper, could fetch some $ 10 million.

At the moment, theworld's oceans absorb a million tonnes of carbon dioxide an hour.

But the government is committed to self-sufficiency, which requires the production of 500 million tonnes of grain a year.

As the Arctic warms it could release billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

Damage at a chemical plant was also reported, with hundreds of people buried and tonnes of poisonous liquid ammonia released.

So far, several tonnes of medicines and medical equipment have arrived in the country.

In its first 12 months, the experimental liquefaction facility in Ordos expects to produce more than a million tonnes of vehicle fuel.

In the centre of the field the wheat is abundant, yielding 10 tonnes a hectare, one of the highest rates in the world for a commercial crop.

Last month the police said they had arrested 32 people for producing the oil and had seized 90 tonnes of it in 14 provinces.

A TOTAL OF 75, 000 TONNES OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CONTRACTS, MORE OR LESS FIVE PER CENT OF THE SELLERS.

The two companies also signed a carbon partnership, which aims to reduce CO2 emissions by 190, 000 tonnes a year.

Of this extra production, 245m tonnes - or 71 per cent of the total - came from China.

Employees increasingly bring their own devices to work. Even the simplest can store the equivalent of several tonnes of paper.

In Henan alone, another 700, 000-1 million tonnes of idle and new capacity may start up in coming months, analysts warn.

Officials say it will help reduce air pollution by 600 tonnes of respirable particles and 160, 000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.

Another 200 tonnes or so make it through undetected, supplying 90% of consumer demand in the United States.

Six tonnes of the brown paper-packaged drug were seized during an operation in Esmeraldas, which saw four people arrested.

CNOOC has agreed to buy 3. 6m tonnes of LNG a year for 20 years and is taking small stakes in BG's LNG plant and some of its gas fields.

The largest physical gold exchange ETF, the New York-listed SPDR Gold Trust, had net inflows of 28 tonnes in the last two weeks.

The two spacecraft, each weighing about eight tonnes, smoothly captured, cushioned, connected and locked onto each other, Xinhua reported.

John Lewis, another British chain, shifts tonnes of furniture online and is known for good service.

Malaysia is planning to build three plants to produce 180, 000 tonnes of biodiesel for export within the next year.

Gold Corporation geologists admit that the main seams have already been carted away, but say 300 tonnes are left in low concentrations.

tonnes of tea leaves which are not included since most of the crop is consumed fresh as a vegetable.

In a nearby depot, middleman Nazir Moroe has 30 tonnes of unsold cocoa and two trucks of beans in Abidjan in search of a buyer.

The first phase of the mine's development targets 70m tonnes a year by 2018.

But big sales by central banks can cause the price to plunge--as when the Bank of England sold 395 tonnes between 1999 and 2002.

A monthly average of 1530 tonnes of livestock waste was collected during the year and sent to Sha Ling Composting Plant for composting.

The humble potato is in fact the world's fourth largest food crop, with a global annual yield of around 330 million tonnes.

The world's largest ships' diesel engines which typically operate for about 280 days a year generate roughly 5, 200 tonnes of SOx.

It was capable of producing 200, 000 tonnes annually, a considerable amount, but nothing like what would follow.

The Netherlands is the world's major supplier of certified seed potatoes, with exports of some 700 000 tonnes a year.

Global annual emissions of greenhouse gases in 2010 are likely to be about 47bn tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent.

Russia has bought 71 tonnes of gold this year, while there have been small purchases by Mauritius, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.

Tonnes have been offered into Brazil at a net back of $295 or possibly slightly lower depending on freight.

The project was started as a way of dealing with the 325, 000 tonnes of tyres sent to landfills across Europe each year.

Reams of simpering verbiage have been written, hours of drivelling conjecture broadcast and tonnes of red, white and blue tat sold.

But Baosteel ranked first among China's steelmakers during the first 11 months of the year, with a total output of 33. 1m metric tonnes.

Following a slower population growth path could reduce fossil fuel emissions by an extra 1. 1 billion tonnes of carbon per year by 2050.

About 7. 5 tonnes went into the construction of a US navy warship.

Sniffer dogs found more than 12 tonnes of the drug hidden in a shipment of brown sugar destined for Mexico.

In an open declaration of a continuing demand, 12 Chinese traders bought 62 tonnes at an average price of $144 per kilo.

Global nickel stocks have fallen to about one third of a day's worth of world consumption, with just 1, 248 tonnes available.

India's purchase [India's central bank recently bought 200 tonnes of gold] had a psychological impact on investors.

The bog can decompose for hundreds of metres round every turbine, potentially releasing millions of tonnes of carbon.

Yes, our company manages large-scale landscape natural stone, the weight from several tons to several hundred tonnes.

With 12. 8bn tonnes of estimated resources, it is one of the biggest iron ore prospects on the African continent.

Global sales of speciality and high-strength steels are expected to be about 20m tonnes this year, worth about $30bn.

The total volume of its proved and probable reserves, as at the end of 2008, is 241 million tonnes (1. 8 billion barrels).

Around xx tonnes of ghost net was collected for a half-day clearance exercise.

New technology like this has boosted the nation's annual coal production to 2. 2 billion tonnes.

Animals at the zoo produce roughly 2, 000 tonnes of dung a year.

In the meantime planes will continue to fly tortuous routes, waste tonnes of fuel and be subject to ever worsening delays.

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Standard Chartered estimates that the expansion of the railways this year alone will consume 30m tonnes of steel.

It weighs 250 tonnes, but is relatively light compared with other tidal systems which can be several times heavier.

It would require the addition of about 10m tonnes of finely divided sulphate particles to the stratosphere each year.

Less than five years after drilling commenced at Cloudbreak, Fortescue has shipped more than 40m tonnes of iron ore to China.

Pests and diseases are a major problem: as much as 4 million tonnes are lost annually to Colorado beetle, late blight and viruses.

It produces 5m tonnes of coking coal a year.

It uses webbing woven from liquid polyester capable of withstanding forces in excess of 2 tonnes.

A second, produced as a "low-carbon scenario" , reduces emissions to nearly 9bn tonnes.

Russia, which wants to massively increase its forestry to pre-Soviet collapse levels, stands to avoid making nearly 200m tonnes of cuts.

Global gold consumption stands at about 4, 500 tonnes a year.

The total annual food shortfall is consistently about 1m tonnes.

Some 20m-50m tonnes of "e-waste" is produced each year, most of which ends up in the developing world.

The Boeing 747-200 Freighter is an earlier model of the Boeing 747-400 Freighter. These aircraft can carry up to 105 tonnes of cargo.

Weighing in at six or seven tonnes, the much larger elephants found on savannah are about twice as heavy as forest-dwellers.

In HIV [research], we are looking at tonnes of data for T cell responses, B cell responses, tonnes of genetic data.

China has continued to buy substantial volumes of US soyabeans in recent days and ordered 113, 000 tonnes on Wednesday.

Each day the local market consumes between three and six tonnes of its yoghurt.

And cheeky Australian thieves stole 16 tonnes of ham and bacon from a Sydney warehouse and then wrote "Thanks. Merry Christmas" on a wall.

The typical dyeing process involves the release of tonnes of waste water -- a mixture of dye, bleach and detergent.

Yet west European farmers achieve yields of up to 9 tonnes per hectare, whereas east European ones get just 2-4 tonnes.

In such a situation Europe might very well respond by increasing its own reductions by about (500m) tonnes.

But only half of a promised 100, 000 tonnes of grain had arrived before the nuclear test, whereupon South Korea suspended the rest.

WWF estimates the new plant's carbon emissions will be 6. 9m tonnes a year.

Since this legal purchase, more than 11 tonnes of illegal African ivory have been impounded en route to China.

The company aims to produce 30m tonnes by the end of 2012.

Several thousand million tonnes of material are crushed every year using hundreds of millions of MW hours.

In 2006 it ordered the closure of mines with an annual output of less than 90, 000 tonnes. But small mines make big money.

What's more, the industry has so far generated nearly 300, 000 tonnes of high-level nuclear waste, and counting.

Mr Alexander puts China's total gold imports at around 350 tonnes so far this year.

It has a gross weight of 62 tonnes and a payload of 38. 3 tonnes, with a deck height of 1 m when laden.

The International Grains Council estimates world wheat production in 2011 will be 647m tonnes, much lower than in the two years before.

McDonald's fries over 8, 000 tonnes of potato a year in Mexico.

Sichuan denied the reports, saying only 12 tonnes were destroyed and that the situation was under control.

In Port Hedland, a main ore export terminal, new berths are planned that could accommodate more than 400 million tonnes in new shipments.

This year, however, China is expected to be a net exporter of some 50m tonnes.

Thus was born Arcelor Mittal, the first steel company with an annual output of more than 100m tonnes.

He estimates that several million tonnes of crude could go into the reserve this quarter.

Under the 20-year agreement, China Power will buy more than 30 million tonnes of coal a year, worth about $3. 47 billion annually.

39m tonnes of untreated sludge flushes into the river every year, says Thames Water, the utility firm that supplies London.

Buncefield is the country's fifth-largest oil distribution depot, with a reported storage capacity of about 150, 000 tonnes.

Britain already has more than 100, 000 tonnes of higher activity radioactive waste that needs to be stored.

Mr Hu, Rio's head iron ore salesman in China, did not have absolute power to allocate tonnes of iron ore to anyone he chose.

Puntland used to catch 2, 000 tonnes of these each year.

This has proved good news for African countries, which import around 10m tonnes annually, a third of the global trade.

On a net basis, the purchases are forecast to be small, at around 15 tonnes.

Starting in the summer of 2012, RHI will produce up to 80, 000 tonnes of high-graded fused magnesia in Norway.

The poorest Africans and Asians produce 0. 1 tonnes of CO2 each a year, compared with 20 tonnes for each American.

Greenland celebrated home rule from Denmark by distributing two tonnes of rare whale meat.

According to Mr Price, net steel exports from China could rise to up to 70m tonnes.

European central banks agreed to limit their gold selling to 400 tonnes per year, back in 1999.

China's emissions are now about 1. 3bn tonnes a year.

In their natural condition, about 33 billion tonnes of CO2 can be stored in these forests, but about 56 er cent of them have been logged.

Unfortunately, the machines needed to generate such beams weigh several hundred tonnes and cost $100m or more to build.

Over two tonnes of food, water, fuel and other equipment has now been delivered to the Russian and American crew on board the ISS.

China produces a million tonnes of rubbish a day with the volume looks set to rise.

On October 5th, a cargo ship struck a reef off the North Island's east coast, spilling 300 tonnes of oil onto pristine beaches.

The rest - 31 million tonnes - was thrown away into landfills or incinerators, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

The artillery system has a combat weight of 22 tonnes, and is operated by a crew of five.

Officials then handed out two tonnes of the flesh to the 56, 000 or so residents of this massive territory.

the world's largest exchange-traded silver fund, has seen net inflows of around 95 tonnes in the last month alone.

Mr Ward decided to bet big and took delivery of 148, 000 tonnes of cocoa, profiting as prices surged.

It could fit 22 double-decker buses in and took over 90 tonnes of plaster to complete, as well as the handiwork of 30 men over 18 weeks.

That was as it should be: China imported 444m tonnes of seaborne iron ore last year, more than Japan and Europe together.

All vessels of 300 gross tonnes and above are required to participate in the Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) and must follow VTC directions.

By the end of 1997, the pollution load had been reduced to about 81000 tonnes.

Many shearers move the equivalent of 13 tonnes a day, or 10 hours' pedalling on an exercise bicycle.

Egypt is the world's top date producer with 1. 1 million tonnes a year.

More than 100 tonnes of such oil was seized after busting a criminal network spanning 14 provinces, the ministry of public security said.

In practice, he reckons, cleaning up the Deepwater Horizon spill of almost 5m barrels would have needed around 7, 000 tonnes of wool.

Unusually for a central bank, Libya held its gold reserves of 144 tonnes inside the country.

The authorization act says it must be capable of delivering 130 tonnes into orbit, 4. 5 times more than the shuttle.

It is estimated that each tower had up to 78, 000 tonnes of recyclable steel inside it.

They're pretty confident they're going to get 200 million tonnes plus (from Australian mines) this year.

Chinook helicopters dropped several tonnes of water, much of which seemed to miss its target.

Nowadays most of the barrels became worthless but there are still some tonnes of gasoline, oil and diesel fuel inside them.

A flying visit to Beijing (3. 9 tonnes of CO2 to offset, before you ask) does not fill you with optimism about the prospects for a deal.