Thumbs up for Silver Eagle’s Miguel Auza mine
The fully permitted Miguel Auza mine, which generated its first revenue for Silver Eagle Mines (SEG-T, SVEGF-O) during a bulk-sampling program last year, shows promising economics according to a prefe…
Zinc-Lead
Tough quarter for HudBay
Lower zinc prices took their toll on HudBay Minerals’ (HBM-T, HBMFF-O) second-quarter earnings.
Olympic power rationing hits Silvercorp
Vancouver – Inadequate coal supplies for Chinese power plants means industrial customers are facing power rationing…
Teck and Xstrata close Lennard Shelf mine
Teck Cominco (TCK. B-T, TCK-N) and Xstrata (XSRAF-O, XTA-L) are closing the Lennard Shelf Pillara zinc-lead mine in Western Australia, because it is no longer economic.
Hudbay down with lower zinc prices
Lower zinc prices took their toll on HudBay Minerals (HBM-T) second quarter earnings.The company’s results showed…
Lydian gets good results in Kosovo
The Drazhnje project in Kosovo has yielded Lydian International (LYD-T) its best drill results yet and the market t…
More intercepts for Mexoro (July 28, 2008)
Vancouver – Thanks to an infusion of cash from Paramount Gold and Silver (PZG-T) this spring, Mexoro Minerals (MXOM…
Full Metal’s Little White Man gets bigger (July 28, 2008)
VANCOUVER — The first drill results from Full Metal Minerals’ (FMM-V, FLMTF-O) 2008 program have expanded the size of a zinc-lead- copper-silver mineralized area at its Little White Man (LWM) prospec…
Small, rich resource for Avino (July 25, 2008)
Vancouver – A solid resource estimate for one vein near the historic Avino mine is bolstering hopes that Avino Silv…
SRA plans pilot germanium-gallium plant
Processing germanium and gallium from zinc leachate could earn Strategic Resources Acquisition Corp. (SRA) (SRZ-T) …
Teck-Cominco and Xstrata close Lennard Shelf mine
Teck-Cominco (TCK.A-T, TCK-N) and Xstrata (XTA-L) are closing the Lennard Shelf Pillara zinc-lead mine in Western A…
Will auto industry woes derail lead, platinum?
The recent sales figures coming out of the automotive industry in Detroit have been awful, leading to layoffs at some of the Big Three auto makers and at auto parts suppliers. Since cars are among the…