2004



Waste stripping and ore stockpiling has started in the Kansanshi open pit.

First Quantum powers up Kansanshi

Vancouver — Commissioning of First Quantum Minerals‘ (FM-T) 80%-owned Kansanshi copper-gold mine in Zambia has begun, following completion of an electrical grid.



bcMetals eyes new recovery process for Red Chris

Vancouver — BcMetals (C-V) is considering using Outokumpu Technology’s hydrometallurgical process to recover copper and gold from sulphide ores and produce copper on-site at its Red Chris project in northwestern British Columbi…


Stripping operations at European Minerals' Varvarinskoye copper-gold project in northern Kazakhstan.

Higher prices bode well for Varvarinskoye

A feasibility study indicates the Varvarinskoye gold-copper project in northern Kazakhstan can be mined profitably. The open-pit prospect is 86%-owned by European Minerals (EPM-T).







Big Sky stays dark for mining

For the uninitiated, I-147 isn’t the number of an obscure feeder route to the Interstate highway system in the trackless wilderness of the Ouachita Mountains. It is, rather, the recently defeated ballot measure that would have removed the prohibit…


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