Step-out drilling expands high-grade system at Pebble
Vancouver Recent drilling by Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-V, NAK-Q) has extended a newly identified, high-grade…
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Phelps Dodge rewards shareholders with dividends
Vancouver By the end of 2006, Phelps Dodge (PD-N) plans to return US$1.5 billion of its recent profits to shareho…
Iamgold tallies Quimsacocha (October 28, 2005)
Roscoe Postle Associates has tagged Iamgold’s (IMG-T IAG-X) still-growing Quimsacocha gold-copper-silver deposit in…
Mequillon extended further east
Resource drilling at the Lac Mequillon nickel-copper deposit in the Nunavik district of far northern Quebec has now…
Placer agrees to Cerro Casale sale (October 27, 2005)
With its attention focussed on three recently approved development projects, Placer Dome (PDG-T, PDG-N) has decided…
CVRD to put new copper deposit into production
The board of Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO-N) has approved a US$232-million budget to develop the 118 copper depo…
First Nickel moves on Bowell results
Shares in First Nickel (FNI-T) shot up 18, or 13%, to $1.58 in early trading in Toronto on Oct. 24, after the comp…
Partners size up Collahuasi’s Rosario Oeste (October 24, 2005)
Some 4,658 metres worth of drilling in 2005, coupled with 6,248 metres in 12 holes in the early 1990s has led to an…
Tethyan to give Reko Diq new twist
Despite favourable new drill results, Tethyan Copper (TYC-A) has sent an unfinished feasibility study on developmen…
Full Metal blazing in Alaska
Sand Point, Alaska – Full Metal Minerals’ (FMM-V, FLMTF-O) strategy of focusing on a pro-mining, stable region with…
Equinox feasibility positive (October 20, 2005)
A revised feasibility study on the Lumwana copper project in northwestern Zambia shows a 20-million-tonne-per-year …
Iamgold grows Quimsacocha
The latest batch of thirteen drill holes by Iamgold (IMG-T, IAG-X) has extended to the southeast the Quimsacocha go…