Singaporean money flows to Canadian miners
The investment arm of the government of Singapore, Temasek Holdings, is starting to make its presence felt in …
Copper
Hana significantly increases Botswana copper resource
Vancouver – Hana Mining (HMG-V, 4LHT-F) has nearly doubled the resource at its Ghanzi copper and silver projec…
Nevsun pushes towards production in Eritrea (April 20, 2010)
Wildcat Silver updates resource estimate at Hardshell
For the second time this year Wildcat Silver (WS-V) has updated the resource estimate for its 80%-owned Hardsh…
Mustang reports Mayville copper-nickel resource (April 15, 2010)
Mustang Minerals (MUM-V) has updated its resource estimate for the Mayville copper-nickel project in southeast…
Imperial rises on more long intercepts at Red Chris (April 14, 2010)
Vancouver – Imperial Metals’ (III-T) deep drilling program at the Red Chris copper-gold project in northwest B…
Panoro finds partner for Antilla
Vancouver – In the three years since it acquired the Antilla project Panoro Minerals (PML-V) has defined a siz…
Copper fundamentals strong; Mitsubishi ups stake in Escondida (April 13, 2010)
Three large Japanese companies are investing a total of more than 50 billion yen ($533.9 million) for an addit…
GobiMin sells Yanxi copper deposit
GobiMin (GMN-V) has agreed to sell most of its equity interest in the Yanxi copper deposit for $9 million in c…
Caspiche resources grow 23% (April 06, 2010)
Exeter Resources (XRC-T, XRA-X) has both increased and upgraded resources at its sizable Caspiche gold-coppe…
Vale Inco renews ABB deal at Voisey’s Bay
Swiss automation and engineering giant ABB (ABB-N) has just signed an agreement with Vale Inco, a subsidiary of Vale (VALE-N) to cover equipment maintenance at the company’s Voisey’s Bay nickel mine i…
ICSG data shows copper market surplus in 2009
The following is a condensed and edited version of the International Copper Study Group’s preliminary data for 2009 from its March 2010 copper bulletin. The data is available online for purchase at ww…