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.
But unlike in 2012 when Wyoming was home to nine of the US' ten biggest coal mines, the Cowboy State had a bit more competition last year. North Dakota's Freedom mine has taken the spot of the US' tenth biggest coal producer, as Wyoming's Caballo slid off the top-ten chart. All production figures are in metric tonnes. Here are the top-ten biggest US coal mines in 2013 in terms of production.