Editorial: Hermit junta heads for the hills
Plenty of national governments have moved their country’s capital from a commercial centre out to the boonies, but …
Copper
Capstone Gold gets Cozamin resource number
Vancouver – An initial resource estimate has been completed on Capstone Gold’s (CSG-T, CSGLF-O) Cozamin copper-silv…
Infill drilling enhances New Afton
Vancouver With an infill drilling program nearing completion, New Gold (NGD-T, NGD-X) sees potential to enhance a…
Ivanhoe posts strong third-quarter
Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T, IVN-N) third-quarter results show strong revenue growth and a cut into losses, but varying de…
Asarco strike ends
Reorganizing copper miner Asarco has stuck a tentative deal to end a 4-month strike by some 1,500 unionized workers…
Crowflight thinks it’s got new tonnage (November 09, 2005)
Drilling this summer and fall on the Bucko nickel deposit, near Wabowden in northern Manitoba, will allow Crowfligh…
Inmet spreads the wealth
Sharply higher third quarter earnings have prompted copper and zinc miner Inmet Mining (IMN-T) to institute a 20-p…
Workers ink deal at Kidd (November 02, 2005)
Members of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union have ratified a new 3-year labour contract at Falconbridge’s (FAL….
DRC approves development of Tenke Fungurume
Vancouver The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has formally approved amended agreements gover…
Step-out drilling expands high-grade system at Pebble
Vancouver Recent drilling by Northern Dynasty Minerals (NDM-V, NAK-Q) has extended a newly identified, high-grade…
Phelps Dodge rewards shareholders with dividends
Vancouver By the end of 2006, Phelps Dodge (PD-N) plans to return US$1.5 billion of its recent profits to shareho…
Iamgold tallies Quimsacocha (October 28, 2005)
Roscoe Postle Associates has tagged Iamgold’s (IMG-T IAG-X) still-growing Quimsacocha gold-copper-silver deposit in…