Falconbridge Limited

The ongoing weakness in nickel markets, coupled with high oil prices, is forcing Falconbridge (FL-T) to suspend production at its 85%-owned nickel laterite mine in the Dominican Republic.The gates wil…

Strong gains among the interest-sensitive sectors helped move the Toronto Stock Exchange up over the period Aug. 22-28. The Bank of Canada took advantage of recent easing by the Federal Reserve Bank t…

Falconbridge (FL-T) has entered into an agreement with St. John’s, Nfld.-based Vulcan Minerals (VUL-V) to earn up to a 65% interest in a nickel sulphide prospect some 50 km northwest of the Voisey’s B…

The losses of cash-strapped Swedish-Canadian miner Boliden (BOL-T) shrank in the latest quarter, thanks to increased mining and smelting production.For the three months ended June 30, the company post…

Having taken another look at some assay pulps from four holes collared by a previous operator on the Expo-Ungava copper-nickel deposit in 1997, Canadian Royalties (CZZ-V) is reporting more platinum an…

Vancouver — With its market capitalization falling below the listing requirements of the Toronto Stock Exchange, Standard Mining (SDM-T) has agreed to a takeover offer by junior Doublestar Resources …

Vancouver — Olympus Pacific Minerals (OYM-V) and its joint-venture partners, Ivanhoe Mines (IVN-T) and New Zealand-based Zedex, are going for gold in Vietnam, while Falconbridge…

Aurora Platinum (ARP-V) has discovered a kimberlite body on the Midrim-Belleterre nickel/copper/-platinum-group-metal project in western Quebec. The junior made the discovery while drill-testing a cir…

Vancouver — Junior Thundelarra Exploration (TLX-V) has amassed an extensive portfolio of properties in Western Australia, including targets for diamonds, platinum and palladium, base metals and gold….

While dry laterite projects in Australia and elsewhere are generating the most news these days, laterite deposits amenable to traditional pyrometallurgical processing techniques are making a comeback …

Citing uncertainties associated with a lawsuit brought forth by Falconbridge (FL-T) and Noranda (NOR-T), Boliden (BOL-T) has decided to sell those companies its adjoining Lomas Bayas and Fortun…

Fortaleza, Brazil — Some 250 km southwest of this busy port city, structural deformation has transformed one of the world’s largest layered mafic intrusive complexes into a geological puzzle, which, …