Teck targets Inco, minus Falco
$17.8 billion – Amount of the hostile bid for Inco…
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Partners target lonore South anomaly (May 15, 2006)
Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N), Eastmain Resources (ER-T, EANRF-O), and Azimut Exploration (AZM-V, AZMTF-O) have signed a letter of intent to jointly explore a promising gold-and-arsenic-in-soil anomaly straddl…
Editorial: Federal budget good for Canada’s miners, explorers (May 15, 2006)
The first federal budget presented by Canada’s new Conservative minority government in early May provided a bevy of long-overdue personal and corporate tax cuts totalling $26 billion over two years, e…
Lessons for sustainable mining loom in Peru
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Antofagasta gets Tethyan (May 15, 2006)
Shareholders of Tethyan Copper (TYCFF-O, TYC-A) have tendered about 96% of their shares to a takeover offer from Antofagasta (ANFGY-O, ANTO-L) that closed Friday….
On-site exploration yields high-grade zones for Imperial
Vancouver — A spring drilling campaign by Imperial Metals (III-T, IPMLF-O) has returned encouraging results from several zones near existing pits at the wholly owned Mount Polley copper-gold mine sit…
Downside protection trims upside for Phelps Dodge
Vancouver — Taking the position that copper prices are currently in “uncharted territory,” Phelps Dodge (PD-N) defended a previous decision to put in place copper collars and put options that shaved…
Daily Metal Prices (May 15, 2006)
BASE METALS (London Metal Exchange — Midday official cash/3-month prices, US$ per tonne)…
Producer and Dealer Prices (May 15, 2006)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$5,600/t….
Canadian Stock Exchange Indices (May 15, 2006)
| Date | May 8 | May 5 | May 4 | May 3 | May 2 | High | Low |
| S&P/TSX-Ven Comp | 3179.73 | 3176.43 | 3137.74…
Rio Tinto to build Hope Downs iron mine in AustraliaVancouver — Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) is beginning mine construction at its massive Hope Downs iron ore project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia…. Maxy Gold selling Niukong to Chinese group (May 15, 2006)Vancouver — China-focused junior explorer Maxy Gold (MXD-V) is offloading its Niukong gold project, part of the Luchun joint venture in southern Yunnan province, to a private Hong Kong-based mining g… By continuing to browse you agree to our use of cookies. To learn more, click more information Dear user, please be aware that we use cookies to help users navigate our website content and to help us understand how we can improve the user experience. If you have ideas for how we can improve our services, we’d love to hear from you. Click here to email us. By continuing to browse you agree to our use of cookies. Please see our Privacy & Cookie Usage Policy to learn more. |