Murgor to Take On HudBay Properties
Montreal junior Murgor Resources (MUG-V, MUGRF-O) has signed a set of agreements with HudBay Minerals (HBM-T, HBMFF-O) to earn an interest in four massive sulphide prospects in the Flin Flon and Snow …
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Gold Hawk to restart Coricancha mine
Vancouver – Recent Peruvian Government resolutions lifting a 2002 “stop work order” on the concentrator has Gold Ha…
‘Everybody wins’ at Capstone’s Cozamin reopening (November 13, 2006)
Zacetecas, Mexico — Just three years after acquiring the past-producing Cozamin property on the outskirts of this historic city, Capstone Mining (CS-T, CSFFF-O) has officially opened an expanded and …
Apogee hits silver-zinc near La Solucion in Bolivia
Apogee Minerals (APE-V, AGEEF-O) had good news from the ground recently, hitting high-grade silver-zinc mineralization near its La Solucion mine — and from the Bolivian government, which backed off f…
Teck posts $504M profit
Vancouver — Robust commodity prices continue to fuel Teck Cominco’s (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) revenue engine, delivering strong third-quarter net income of $504 million ($2.34 per share), up from $405 million…
Lundin eyeing growth in Iran
Vancouver – Despite the obvious political risks, Lundin Mining (LUN-T, LUMI-S) is eyeing a massive zinc deposit in …
Tribute’s Arrow holes hit mark (November 06, 2006)
Analytical results from two drill holes by Tribute Minerals (TBM-V) at the Garnet Lake property in northwestern Ont…
Aquila finds more sulphides
Drilling by Aquila Resources (AQA-V) at the Back Forty project in Menominee Cty., Michigan, has intersected gold an…
Teck Cominco posts $504-million profit in Q3
Vancouver – Robust commodity prices continued to fuel Teck Cominco’s (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) revenue engine, delivering st…
Blue Note dusts off Caribou
Bathurst, N.B. — The dormant Caribou and Restigouche zinc-lead mines in northern New Brunswick are once again getting a new lease on life, thanks to robust metal prices and strong investor confidence…
More reward than risk at Kutcho Creek
Dease Lake, B.C. — The Kutcho Creek volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project located 100 km east of this Northern community made it to prefeasibility in the mid-1980s, only to be put on the back b…
Zinc recycling in the North (October 30, 2006)
Doubtless helped by the price of zinc, two former Arctic zinc producers, both operated by Cominco, are getting second looks by junior explorers bent on showing that resources left behind when the mine…