CVRD and Inco meet the press
A day after announcing that Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) had acquired 76% of Inco’s (N-T) shares and were clos…
Teck Resources Limited
Schaft Creek drilling returns high-grade gold for Copper Fox (October 23, 2006)
Vancouver — Partial assays from initial 2006 drilling at Copper Fox Metals’ (CUU-V, CPFXF-O) Schaft Creek project, in northwestern British Columbia, indicate a new high-grade gold zone.
Strike averted at Teck’s Highland Valley
Vancouver — Teck Cominco (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) and Local 7619 of the United Steelworkers of America have averted a strike at the Highland Valley copper mine, 60 km southwest of Kamloops, B.C., with worker…
New zone at Black Angel
Recently finishing a summer exploration program at the Black Angel property in western Greenland, Angus & Ross (AGU-L) has confirmed downdip continuity of a long surface showing discovered in 2005…
TSX Debentures (October 09, 2006)
Inco on the brink-o (September 11, 2006)
Just a week after officially shunning Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) (rio-n) in favour of Phelps Dodge (PD-N), Inco (N-T, N-N) has terminated its combination agreement with the Arizona-based copper…
TSX Debentures (September 04, 2006)
Teck bows out
Having failed to raise some $5.7 billion overnight, Teck Cominco (TCK.A-T, TCK-N) quietly let its offer for Inco (N-T, n-n) expire on Aug. 16….
Nunavut’s Pelly Bay area shows diamond potential
A new kimberlite camp is emerging in the Canadian Arctic as Indicator Minerals (IME-V) has discovered several large, pipe-like kimberlite bodies during a summer drilling campaign on the Darby project…
Plot thickens in battle for Inco
Brazilian iron ore giant Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) (RIO-N) has turned up the heat in the battle for control of Inco (N-T, N-N) with an all-cash bid of $86.00 per share….
Teck Cominco looks at bigger Australian footprint (August 20, 2006)
Kalgoorlie, Western Australia — There were a lot of people who thought Teck Cominco (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) chief executive Donald Lindsay should either be in New York or Toronto on Aug. 7. Instead, he was…
Teck tosses the towel
Teck Cominco (TCK.A-T, TCK-N) has officially thrown in the towel in the fight for Inco (N-T, N-N) after failing to …