Fibrates, also known as fibric acid derivatives, are a class of lipid-lowering drugs that have the ability to affect all aspects of your lipid profile. The manner by which fibrates lower cholesterol is complex. Fibrates activate a protein called peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPAR-alpha).
The Burra Burra Mine is a copper mine located in Ducktown, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States.Named for the famous mine in Australia, the Burra Burra Mine extracted over 15 million tons (14 million metric tons) of copper ore during its 60 years of operation between 1899 and 1959.n 1899, the Tennessee Copper Company, which had bought most of the mining operations in the Copper Basin, constructed a smelter at Copperhill and began work on the Burra Burra Mine at Ducktown.
Johnnie mine. The Johnnie mine is an abandoned gold mine in Pahrump Valley, Nevada, about 15 miles north of Pahrump, Nevada. It was discovered in 1890. The mine produced between $382,681 and over a million dollars by 1913. In 2014, ownership of the abandoned mine was transferred to the Pahrump Valley Museum and Historical Society.