2006

First Nickel extends Lockerby

Shares in First Nickel (FNI-T, FNKLF-O) jumped 18% to $1.18 in heavy morning trade in Toronto on May 29, after the junior producer reported some high-grade extensions to the producing Depth zone at th…




MONGOLIA-PICTURES.COMIvanhoe Mines's new CEO, John Macken, is introduced at a recent press conference in Mongolia. Ivanhoe holds the most coveted mining property in the country, the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold bulk-tonnage project.

Mongolian president says yes to tax

Vancouver — Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar has opted for the populist course and declined to veto the recently tabled windfall profits tax aimed at copper and gold producers in the central As…



Lake Shore studies Timmins West, Vogel

As part of its prefeasibility study on the Timmins West gold project, Lake Shore Gold (LSG-T, LSGGF-O) plans to do underground exploration on both Timmins West and the Vogel-Schumacher project….


Yellowhead to drill Harper Creek

Vancouver — Along with a proposed financing to raise up to $10 million and become a publicly traded company later this year, Yellowhead Mining is planning a spring exploration program at its newly ac…


Kansanshi gets sweeter

Production from the Kansanshi copper mine in the North-Western province of Zambia has come along just in time for First Quantum Minerals (FM-T, FQVLF-O), which posted net earnings of US$54.8 million (…


SOUTHWESTERN RESOURCESJohn Paterson, president and CEO of Southwestern Resources, stands by an exposure of zinc oxide mineralization at the Accha deposit in southern Peru.

Hot market has juniors eyeing zinc oxides

With base metal prices at record highs, it’s hardly surprising that zinc oxide deposits, despite their reputation for difficult metallurgy, are making a comeback among junior miners….


Rio Blanco takes shape

Early progress on a final feasibility study for the Rio Blanco copper-molybdenum project in northern Peru proposes mining the deposit at 25 million tonnes annually….


International Quotes (June 05, 2006)


May 29 May 23 Change
Australia (A$)
Bendigo Mining 2.12 1.92 0.20
as of 4 pm ET, May 29, 2006 (%)
Bank of Canada 4.50
Target overnight rate 4.25
Canadian Prime 6.00

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