New deal at Altonorte
Employees at Noranda’s (NRD-T) Altonorte custom copper smelter in Chile have ratified a new three-year collective a…
Copper
Ivanhoe granted Mongolian mining licences
The Mineral Resources Authority of Mongolia has issued four 60-year mining licenses to Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T). T…
Metco shares surge on Noranda option
Shares in Metco Resources (MKO-V) surged 2.5, or about 21%, to 14.5 in late afternoon trading in Vancouver on Dec…
Ok Tedi suit settled out of court
A class-action lawsuit launched in Victoria state, Australia, against Ok Tedi Mines and BHP Billiton (BHP-N), has b…
Royalties lands two punches over Expo-Ungava
Canadian Royalties (CZZ-V) has won two court judgments in an ongoing dispute with Ungava Minerals over the ownershi…
Gold Fields ventures to South America
South Africa’s Gold Fields (GFI-N) has inked a deal to pick up 92% of Peru-based Sociedad Minera La Cima. No price…
Grasberg suffers second slide (December 18, 2003)
New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) has declared force majeure on deliveries of copper concent…
Sherritt to convert multiple-voting shares
Nickel producer and coal holding company Sherritt International (S-T) has arranged to convert the multiple-voting s…
Freeport back to work at Grasberg
An Indonesian government review of an accident at the Grasberg copper-gold mine in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, has appro…
Rio Blanco pre-feasibility study looks good
Pre-feasibility work for London-base Monterrico Metals (MNA-L) at the Rio Blanco copper project in northern Peru ha…
Rio Narcea to drive ramp at Aguablanca (December 05, 2003)
Anxious to catch the peak of nickel prices, Rio Narcea Gold (RNG-T) now plans to begin underground development of i…
Andina on strike
Vancouver – The supply of copper concentrates on the world’s market got a little bit tighter after workers walked…