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One of Mexico’s biggest natural resource company’s, Grupo Mexico, wants to unite two of its affiliates to create a behemoth in the copper world.

VANCOUVER — The long copper hits coming out of the Zafranal project in southern Peru are starting to define a sizable zone of mineralization and the success has prompted its owners AQM Copper (AQM-V)…

Sinchao Metals — Bruce Ramsden appointed VP of finance and CFO.

Three years ago Sage Gold (SGX-V) had a market capitalization of about $40 million. Today the figure stands at about $6 million but the junior’s president and chief executive Nigel Lees believes that’…

Diamonds have been kind to Kinross Gold (K-T, KGC-N).

July has been a busy month at Aurizon Mines (ARZ-T, AZK-N). On July 5, the Vancouver-based gold producer unveiled that it had significantly updated its resource for the Hosco gold deposit on its Joann…

COURTE SY OF SCOTIABANK

Molycorp, owner of the Mountain Pass rare earth element (REE) mine in California, is going ahead with an initial public offering (IPO) topping US$420 million so it can ramp up North America’s only cur…

Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, July 27, 2010 (change from July 20 in brackets):

Antimony: Mid-mkt US$9,233.33 /t.

New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-X) shares were up nearly 5% to $5.25 apiece on July 20 on news the company was able to increase gold production by 62% in the second quarter, due mostly to its Mesquite gold mine …

Date July 26 July 23 July 22 July 21 July 20 BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange –Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne) Al Alloy 2035/2035 2070/2020 2110/2040 2020/1985 1995/19…