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.
Two locations in the United States have been worked as commercial diamond mines. The first was a mine near Murfreesboro, Arkansas. It was worked as a commercial diamond mine by a succession of operators in the early 1900s but closed because the deposit was subeconomic.lthough millions of carats of diamonds are consumed each year in the United States, very few diamonds are domestically produced. The only active diamond mine in the country is the Crater of Diamonds Mine near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas.