Editor’s Picks: Top stories of the week
The small club of global nickel miners was the top newsmaker during the week ended Feb. 2, 2007, with substantial d…
Copper
Teck Cominco mulling options for gold assets
Vancouver – With about 50% of its exploration budget devoted to copper, Teck Cominco (TEK.SV.B-T, TCKBF-O) is mull…
Revett starts drilling on Troy targets
Seeking to increase the resource at its Troy copper-silver mine in northwestern Montana, Revett Minerals (RVM-T, RV…
UPDATE: Imperial ups bcMetals bid to $1.50
Vancouver – With a boosted offer of $1.50 per share, Imperial Metals (III-T, IPMLF-O) now claims high bidder status…
Globex looks to confirm copper data from Lyndhurst #1 zone
Globex Mining (GMX-T) has agreed to give a private company, Agregat R-N, a 50% working interest in its #1 copper-si…
Sunridge puts numbers to Eritrean massive sulphides (January 29, 2007)
Resource estimates for Sunridge Gold (SGC-V) on its Debarwa and Adi Nefas massive-sulphide projects in central …
Preserving fish stocks, a challenge for Taseko, Northgate
New Horizons
Bids for bcMetals climb higher
Vancouver — Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X) has jumped into the lead in the ongoing bidding war for bcMetals (C-V, BMTLF-O), recently leap-frogging ahead of a competing offer by Imperial Metals (III-T, I…
Ivanhoe looks beyond Oyu Tolgoi
Vancouver — Looking beyond its flagship Oyu Tolgoi property in Mongolia, Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) says it has found a series of related iron oxide copper-gold systems, some of …
UPDATE:Taseko again ups stakes in bcMetals battle
Vancouver — Only hours after Imperial Metals (III-T, IPMLF-O) briefly took the lead in the bcMetals (C-V, BMTLF-O)…
Corriente delays startup of Ecuador mine.
Vancouver Already facing a suspension order from the Ecuador government, Corriente Resources (CTQ-T, ETQ-A) is de…
Cardero cuts wide copper-gold at Huachi (January 24, 2007)
Vancouver – Initial drilling by Cardero Resource (CDU-T, CDY-X) on its Huachi project in Argentina’s San Juan provi…