Editorial: Teck teeters, Apex falls
Falling commodity prices took deep bites out of another group of zinc miners during the week ended Nov. 15, the 46th trading week of 2008.
Zinc-Lead
Apogee shuts La Solucion mine in Bolivia
Declining metal prices and lower grades combined with higher smelting costs and taxes have forced Apogee Minerals (…
High-grade zinc-lead resource for Firestone Ventures
Vancouver – Firestone Ventures (FV-V) has proven up a small, high-grade zinc-lead resource at its Torlon Hill proje…
Exploration adit proving its worth at Niblack
Vancouver – The first underground drilling program at Committee Bay’s (CBR-V) Niblack project on Prince on Wa…
Teck’s dilemma: How to pay off a $10-billion debt while metal prices fall all around
Vancouver – For the last few years Teck Cominco (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) has been a reliable, dividend-paying investment op…
Nevsun arranges US$89M debt for Bisha (November 17, 2008)
Vancouver — The Industrial Development Corp. of South Africa (IDC) must have liked what it saw at Nevsun Resources’ (NSU-T, NSU-x) Bisha project when it visited the site in Eritrea this August. The I…
Tarsis into zinc and silver at Goz Creek
Vancouver – Tarsis Capital (TCC-V) hit long intercepts of zinc and silver at its Goz Creek property, 180 km northea…
Dia Bras Exploration plans mill at Bolivar mine
A pilot mining program at the Bolivar mine in the Piedras Verdes district of Mexico’s Chihuahua state h…
Sage Gold hopes to extend Kodiak’s discovery
SITE VISIT Jellicoe, Ont. — Nigel Lees, president and CEO of Sage Gold (SGX-V, SGGDF-o), and Bill Love, the company’s vice-president of business development, are trying to solve a geological…
Breakwater closes mines
Zinc miner Breakwater Resources (BWR-T, BWLRF-o) is suspending operations at its Langlois mine, 200 km north of Val d’Or, Que., and the Myra Falls mine on Vancouver Island, B. C.
Early winter hits Teck’s Red Dog (November 10, 2008)
Teck (TCK. B-T, TCK-t) says that “adverse weather conditions” have forced it to send off its final container ship early and without a full load from its Red Dog zinc-lead mine in Alaska, easily the wo…
Geologix grows San Agustin resource
Vancouver – A new resource estimate for the San Agustin polymetallic property in Durango, Mexico, has doubled the p…