Teck Resources Limited

Nearly out of cash, Sulliden Exploration (sue-t) has suspended a 3,500-metre drilling campaign on the Mario base metal property, 50 km southwest of Huancayo, Peru.Sullivan had drilled about 1,553 metr…

EASTERN MARKETLast-minute selling before the Christmas holidays saw the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index fall 58.17 points over the Dec. 19-20 report period. The benchmark finished the shortened week …

NORTH AMERICAN MINING INDEXCompanyTickerWeight (%)Barrick GoldABX-T21.0CamecoCO-T3.9FalconbridgeFL-T5.1Franco-Nevada MiningFN-T7.0Freeport McMoRan Cop’r BFCX-N4.8Homestake MiningHM-N7.4I…

Buyers managed to overtake sellers over the Dec. 12-18 report period to push the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index up 54.84 points to 7,586.47.Gold surged ahead $5.65 in London markets to land at a mor…

Vancouver — With Red Dog in northwestern Alaska already the highest-grade zinc mine in the world, Teck Cominco (TEK-T) is hopeful recent drill results will enable it to outline a zinc district potent…

In a deal valued at $6 million, Aur Resources (AUR-T) is taking over the Duck Pond base metal project in Newfoundland from partners Thundermin Resources (THR-T) and Queenston Mining (QMI-T).

The government of British Columbia’s proposal to eliminate the vital functions of the British Columbia Geological Survey Branch or to farm these out, greatly reduced, to independent contractors was ad…

The biggest news of the Dec. 5-11 report period came from south of the border, where the U.S. Federal Reserve Board knocked another 25 basis points off the federal funds rate, thereby reducing it to i…

Investors took profits after the Bank of Canada cut its principal lending rate on Nov. 27, leaving the Toronto Stock Exchange playing catch-up for the report period Nov. 28-Dec. 4.The TSE 300 composit…

Toronto-based Orezone Resources (ORZ-T) has added the Seguenega gold project in Burkina Faso to its exploration portfolio in West Africa.In return for a 90% stake, Orezone issued 200,000 shares to Rep…

Gold prices experienced two mini-rallies during the Nov. 7-13 trading period before settling down to a trading range of US$277-278 per oz.The first spike came on the morning of Nov. 12 following the c…

Sulliden Exploration’s Mario property has been named Peru’s “mining prospect of the year” by a committee of 15 representatives of that country’s mining industry.The Montreal-based junior has an option…