Also up for bidding

Also up for bidding are 10 parking slots at One McKinley Place. There are also vacant residential plenty and business properties with improvements in Metro Manila and in the provinces of Albay, Bulacan, Camarines Norte, Camarines Sur, Cavite, Leyte, Nueva Ecija, Negros Oriental, Pangasinan, Quezon and Tarlac. A Hyundai Tucson and a Nissan Pathfinder also are for sale.

“The bidding could be on an “as-is, where-is” foundation. Prospective customers also are advised to bodily check out the residences they are involved to buy, look at and confirm the titles and different proof of possession, and decide any unpaid taxes, expenses, fees and costs earlier than submitting their bids,” PDIC said.

Bidder may put up sealed bids to the PDIC Real & Other Properties Acquired (ROPA) Disposal Committee Secretariat, ninth floor PDIC Training Room, SSS Building, 6782 Ayala Avenue, nook V.A. Rufino Street, Makati City on May sixteen, 2017, from 9 a.M. To two p.M. The University of the Philippines (UP) is about to embark on a survey that might result in the exploration, improvement and commercial manufacturing of scandium deposits and different rare-earth elements inside the u . S ..

Carlo Arcilla, director at the UP National Institute for Geological Sciences, said his employer turned into operating with the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) to identify scandium-wealthy areas.

“Our goal this year is to decide the level of scandium concentrates. The procedure of isolation can be component of the studies. We have a superb danger of becoming big on scandium,” Arcilla instructed journalists. With P10 million in funding from the DoST, UP will look at the monetary capacity of scandium in nickel-wealthy regions of Palawan, Surigao, Zambales and Mindoro.

Scandium, along side other uncommon-earth elements, is dubbed the “metal of the future” and a “strategic mineral” because of its uses in the development of guns guidance systems and “space-age technology.”

Rare-earth factors are immensely precious and, even in small portions, can notably change the residences of substances. This makes them irreplaceable inside the manufacture of wind turbines, automobiles, computer systems, smartphones and different high-tech applications.

Despite their call, uncommon earth elements are fantastically ample in the earth’s crust. They aren’t specifically uncommon, however are tough to split from each different. The fundamental concentrations of rare-earth factors are related to unusual styles of igneous rocks.

Potentially useful concentrations of uncommon earth-bearing minerals also are in placer deposits, residual deposits formed from deep weathering of igneous rocks, pegmatites, iron-oxide copper-gold deposits, and marine phosphates.