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After spending much of the year in preparation, Sudbury’s third-largest nickel miner, FNX Mining (FNX-T), will soon launch a 5,000-metre drilling campaign at its Mt. Kakoulima nickel-sulphide project in Guinea, West Africa.

Cornerstone Capital Resources (CGP-V) and Falconbridge (FL-T) are teaming up to explore for nickel west of Inco‘s (N-T) Voisey’s Bay mine in Labrador.

Outokumpu (OUTOF-O) has put its copper businesses up for sale.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s energy index powered the way, gaining 4.7% to reach 186.01 points by the end of the Sept. 15-21 report period, as oil prices rose to month-long highs on supply concerns south of the border. The golds chipped in with a…

Shares in Cambior (CBJ-T) fell nearly 5% in Toronto on Sept. 13, after the company said that the lagging effects of a rock fall earlier this spring has forced the layoff of some 130 employees at its Doyon mine in northwestern Qu…

Vancouver — Nevada Pacific Gold (NPG-V) has signed two more deals with Placer Dome (PDG-T) on gold properties in northern Nevada, one in the Cortez area and the other in the Carlin trend.