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Large inventories pin down zinc

Zinc’s price performance has been disappointing in recent months. Zinc is one of the few base metals still trading in contango, which indicates good metal availability, resulting from large inventory levels, which is placing this base metal in a m…


Exploration pays off for Falconbridge

The exploration success that Falconbridge (FL-T) is enjoying in the Sudbury mining camp, especially with the discovery of the new high-grade Nickel Rim South deposit, ensures its Sudbury operations will continue for at least the…


Getting active on Afton: a new project in an old camp

Kamloops, B.C. — Just west of where the Trans-Canada Highway meets the Coquihalla Super-Highway at the city of Kamloops, DRC Resources (DRC-T) is advancing development of a new copper-gold mine at the site of a former major cop…



Aerial view of Expatriate Resources' field camp at its Finlayson Lake project in the Yukon.

Expatriate sees Wolverine as stand-alone operation

Whitehorse, Yukon — The recent resurgence in metal prices has breathed new life into the Finlayson Lake district where Expatriate Resources (EXR-V) now appears set to develop its Wolverine massive-sulphide deposit as a stand-al…


Questioning business in China

The U.S. copper industry must compete with a business climate in China that is rife with smuggling, bribes and illegal subsidies, according to Smuggling, Bribes and Subsidies: The Copper Industry in China, a paper published by a trade group repres…



Trucks ferry material to and from the tailings dam construction site.

Rio Narcea in Spanish transition

Traditionally a gold miner, Rio Narcea Gold Mines (RNG-T) might do well to consider a name change now that it’s wrapped up construction of the processing plant at the Aguablanca nickel-copper sulphide project, 80 km northwest of…


A drill tests the Dundonald South nickel property near Timmins, Ont.

News – 27-SEP-04

Using the successful liaison between FNX Mining (FNX-T) and Inco (N-T) as a model, First Nickel (FNI-T) has brokered a deal that could lead to the rapid development of a nickel deposit disco…



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