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  THE NEWS : Months after an explosive-laden Scorpio was found outside billionaire Mukhesh Ambani's Mumbai residence, the Thane Police on Monday seized an alarming cache of nearly 12,000 gelatin sticks from the Karivali area in Bhiwandi. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Thane Police's Crime Branch Unit, raided the premises of a firm dealing in building materials, seized 63 boxes containing 12,000 units of the explosive material and four boxes with 3,008 detonators. For context, the Scorpio found near Antilia, laded with explosives and a threatening letter, had only 20 gelatin sticks.    The Thane Police has arrested one person, identified as Gurunath Mhatre, in connection with the matter. Mhatre, accused of possessing the life-threatening materials, was produced before the Bhiwandi Court. He has been remanded to police custody till May 22. As per the police's initial report, Mhatre did not hold any legal documents to justify his possession of the said gelatin sticks. No...

 

 

 

 

  #hyperaccumulator #hyperaccumulatorplants #bioore #chemist #geochemist #biogeochemist #minewaste #minewasteexpert #agromining #agrominingformetals #CentreforMinedLandRehabilitationCMLR #ultramaficsoils #treasurefromtrash #biosourcedmetals #ultramaficsoils #phytoremediation Plants are friends with the ecosystem. They are life supporters. They supply oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide. They trap dust and cleanse the natural environment. All of us know these.  But there are more to plants. Some plants can suck metals from the earth and keep them accumulated in them. Metals like lithium, thallium, gold, manganese, cobalt, and nickel are absorbed by a specific group of trees from which these metals can be extracted. It has been made possible on the laboratory scale, and a good amount of works are being done to scale it up on a commercial basis. The plants of this group are known as – hyperaccumulators. And the process of extracting metals from these plants is known as – phytomining...

  AP Kadapa Explosion: 10 Dead In Huge Blast At A Limestone Quarry In Andhra Pradesh's Kadapa It is very unfortunate to learn that on 8th May 2021, about ten laborers were killed in a massive explosion while unloading detonators from a vehicle at a limestone quarry in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa district on Saturday morning, police said. The incident happened at Tirumalakonda hillocks on the outskirts of Mamillapalli village of Kalasapadu block at around 10 am.  From the news article is not very clear whether the materials that caused this fatal accident were detonators or explosive cartridges.   The explosion was so intense that the bodies were damaged beyond recognition. “With great difficulty, we could identify the victims based on their body parts,” the SP, who visited the spot in the afternoon, said. “The explosion occurred when the workers were unloading bundles of detonators from a vehicle for using them for limestone mining,” The driver of the vehicle was among t...