Int’l Royalty to Buy Nsr on Pascua-Lama
Vancouver — International Royalty (IRC-T, ROY-X) has inked a deal to purchase a sliding-scale net smelter return (NSR) royalty on Barrick Gold’s (ABX-T, ABX-N) monstrous Pascua-Lama gold deposit, whi…
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Xstrata Nickel to double production by 2012
Staying alive in today’s nickel business requires big bucks, but now that Xstrata Nickel (formerly Falconbridge) has Switzerland-based Xstrata’s (XTA-L, XSRAF-O) dollars and vision behind it, the comp…
Aura Gold starts drilling in former gold rush area
Few garimpeiros are seen near Aura Gold’s new Cumaru project in north-central Brazil, unlike the scene from the Par…
Xstrata Nickel plans to double production by 2012
Staying alive in today’s nickel business requires big bucks from mining companies, but now that Xstrata Nickel, the…
Platinum’s future looks bright
Vancouver — If silver’s moniker is the poor man’s gold, platinum’s buoyant price performance must certainly place it in the running as a much richer man’s precious metal. However, despite the lofty p…
Starfield advances Ferguson Lake (November 27, 2006)
Vancouver — In wrapping up its 2006 drilling program at the Ferguson Lake copper-nickel-platinum group metals project located 240 km west of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Starfield Resources (SRU-V, SRFDF-O…
Skye falls on $80 million offering news
Vancouver – News that Skye Resources (SKR-T) is planning to kickstart development of its Fenix nickel project in Gu…
Starfield advances Ferguson Lake (November 16, 2006)
Vancouver – In wrapping up its 2006 drilling at the Ferguson Lake copper-nickel-PGM project located 240 km west of …
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…
CVRD sambas into Toronto
A day after announcing that Brazilian iron ore giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) (RIO-N) had acquired 76% of Inco’s (N-T, N-N) shares and were closing in on finalizing the takeover, the top bras…
Editorial: We’ll think no more of Inco. . .
October marked the beginning of a new era for Canadian mining, with the absorption of the iconic Canadian nickel miner Inco into the Brazilian base metals behemoth, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce.
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…