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.
Placer mining took place on Coker Creek (near Tellico Plains) in the early 1830s. Monroe County was one of the few East Tennessee counties to support secession at the outbreak of the Civil War. On June 8, 1861, the county voted in favor of Tennessee's Ordinance of Secession by a margin of 1,096 to 774.