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Greenland's Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum, charged with managing the boom, currently has 150 active licenses for mineral exploration, up from 20 a decade ago.

After the deal, about 75percentt of the company's capital will be used for exploration, up from about 51percentt, and about 38percentt of its oil reserves will be outside the United States and the North Sea, up from about 21percentt.

Of that, $2.9 billion will be used on oil and gas exploration, up from an initial estimate of $1.6 billion for 2008.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Delmer L. Brown, a geological engineer and gemologist, conducted the most thorough scientific exploration up to that time, concluding that the dike was at least 7000 feet deep and that the concentration of rough sapphires was not constant throughout the deposit.

Mr. Alvarez said that "the real key is getting the level of exploration up to 10, 12, 15 wells a year".

It also picked out Ophir Energy, up 27p at 532.5p, and Rockhopper Exploration, up 4p to 354p, as being attractive to predators.

Shares of Houston Exploration were up more than 6percentt on Monday, giving it a market capitalization of about $1.6 billion.

Bottom sampling during early exploration brought up all varieties of the above-mentioned rocks, but the structure of the crust and the abundance of the constituent rocks were unclear.

In 1999 the government put 25 exploration blocks up for an auction at which bidders competed not with cash but with royalty percentages.

In 1892, when he outlined his plan to the Royal Geographical Society in London, the big names of polar exploration lined up to dismiss it.

But Natanine said they would be willing to block the seismic companies if exploration started up without their consent.