Bus accident kills 28 Buenaventura workers
A bus accident on the road from the Uchucchacua silver mine to the nearby town of Oyon, Peru, took the lives of 28 employees of Companhia de Minas Buenaventura (BVN-N) and injured 17 others….
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Editorial: Eramet still hankering after Koniambo (June 26, 2006)
If you thought that the tussle between France’s Eramet and Canada’s Falconbridge over the ownership of the latter’s Koniambo project was settled once and for all in French courts in December, think ag…
Suppliers News (June 26, 2006)
Major Drilling unloads UDR on Sandvik…
NovaGold launches hostile bid for Pioneer Metals
In the midst of a squabble over the Grace copper-gold property in B.C., NovaGold Resources (NG-T, NG-X) has launched a hostile takeover bid for the company pursuing litigation against it — Pioneer Me…
Marathon cuts copper at Dunlop
Drilling by Marathon PGM (MAR-V) at the Dunlop property, just east of Marathon, Ont., has intersected wide zones of…
Luz del Cobre financed, with a string
Gold and copper hopeful Zaruma Resources (ZMR-T, ZMRAF-O) has inked a memorandum of understanding that would see co…
Primary Metals tallies Panasqueira resource
Vancouver – Tungsten producer Primary Metals (PMI-V, PMIZF-O) has come up with a resource estimate at its Panasquei…
Tenke releases updated resource estimates for Tenke Fungurume
Vancouver – Updated resource estimates have been released by Tenke Mining (TNK-T) for the Tenke Fungurume copper-c…
BHP Billiton reaches for more Skye (June 22, 2006)
Vancouver – Mining giant BHP Billiton (BHP-N) must like what it sees in aspiring nickel producer Skye Resources (SK…
Forsys continues to define Valencia
Results are in from two re-sampled drill holes and one new drill hole at Forsys Metals’s (FSY-T) Valencia project i…
SXR Uranium One’s Dominion grows (June 22, 2006)
Higher uranium and gold prices and more than 30,000 metres worth of drilling have allowed SXR Uranium One (SXR-T, S…
Sabina Silver delivers hot hole at Hackett River (June 21, 2006)
Vancouver – Significant initial results are trickling in from Sabina Silver’s (SBB-V, SBBFF-O) 2006 resource drilli…