DRC miners hardest hit
While these are tough times for companies across the mineral sector miners in the Democratic Republic Congo (DRC) a…
Copper
Copper Mountain gets the go ahead
Vancouver – Copper Mountain Mining (CUM-T) is not letting global financial turmoil or a falling copper price get in…
Citigroup turns bearish across the board (October 31, 2008)
Vancouver – In a new commodity outlook Citigroup Global Markets predicts all base metal markets moving to surplus i…
Big initial resource for Sinchao
Vancouver – After two years of drilling Sinchao Metals (SMZ-V) has delineated a sizeable initial resource at its na…
Nevsun arranges US$89M debt for Bisha (October 30, 2008)
Vancouver The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC) must have liked what it saw at Nevsun Reso…
Peruvian protesters turn violent over tax scheme
On a stretch of the Pan-American Highway in southern most Peru, protests have turned violent yet again over the dis…
Nemis resigns as Noront president and CEO; named chairman emeritus for life
Noront Resources (NOT-V, NOSOF-O) president and CEO Richard Nemis stepped down at the company’s annual meeting toda…
Penoles drills more gold and copper at Carmen
Vancouver The final ten holes from this year’s drilling campaign at the Carmen target on the Inca de Oro Sur prop…
Coal cushions Teck’s third quarter (October 27, 2008)
Vancouver – For Teck (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) coal continues to be its saving grace this quarter.With demand for zinc and…
Noront, Rosseau agree on compromise board
A day before Noront Resources’ (NOT-V) annual shareholders’ meeting — where a dramatic proxy contest was set to de…
Noront CEO speaks out
In the midst of a proxy fight with a dissident shareholder, Noront Resources (NOT-V, NOSOF-o) has fired back with a positive scoping study for development of its Eagle One copper-nickel-platinum group…
Imperial Metals shores up Mount Polley mine
Vancouver — Continuing exploration at the Mount Polley open-pit copper-gold mine in central British Columbia is finding exactly what Imperial Metals (III-T, IPMLF-o) seeks: high-grade intercepts.