Falconbridge cuts new nickel in Brazil
Wide-spaced drilling by Falconbridge (FAL-LV-T) has turned up two significant nickel deposits on the Araguaia nicke…
Copper
Breakwater plans Abitibi exploration (September 01, 2005)
A $1.4-million placement of flow-through shares will fund two exploration projects around Breakwater Resources’ (BW…
Asarco union to try revised proposal (September 01, 2005)
United Steelworkers negotiators readied a proposal to take to management at Asarco, the troubled subsidiary of Grup…
Xstrata boosts its Falco stake
Zug, Switzerland-based, diversified base metal miner Xstrata (XTA-L) has agreed to buy some 370,000 additional shar…
Kutcho Creek enters environmental assessment process
Vancouver Western Keltic Mines (WKM-V) has formally entered the environmental assessment process as a first step …
Inco to dig deeper at Thompson
Nickel giant Inco (N-T) plans to spend US$34 million developing the 1-D Lower orebody at the Thompson mine in Manit…
Farallon poised to merge with Continuum
Vancouver Subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals and a due-diligence review, Farallon Resources (FAN-T) …
bcMetals gets environmental approval for Red Chris
Vancouver – bcMetals (C-V) has received provincial government environmental approval for its Red Chris copper-gold …
East Asia tracks western Mongolian copper
Vancouver – High grade oxide copper discovered on its Khok Adar project in western Mongolian has East Asia Minerals…
QGX shut out at Shuteen, misses the mark at Golden Hills
A nine-hole drill campaign on the Shuteen copper-gold prospect in Mongolia has come up dry for QGX (QGX-T). In all,…
QGX shutout at Shuteen
Shares in QGX (QGX-T) were off 18, or 5.5%, at $3.12 in afternoon trading in Toronto on Aug. 25, after the company…
Partners expand Levack Footwall deposit (August 24, 2005)
An ongoing six-rig drilling campaign has expanded the Footwall discovery behind the Levack No. 2 shaft, 40 km north…