Falconbridge Limited



From left: Hard Creek Nickel project manager and COO Tony Hitchins, engineer Neil Froc, and president and chair Mark Jarvis examine core at the Turnagain nickel project in north-central B.C. Recent drilling increased the project's potential for more nickel.

A new leaf for Turnagain nickel

Vancouver — With an eye toward boosting mineralized tonnage on its Turnagain project, results from Hard Creek Nickel‘s (HNC-V, HNCKF-O) completion of phase-2 drilling have expanded…


Past, better days. From left: Normand Dupras, Falconbridge's exploration manager in the Bathurst base metal camp; Keith Ashfield, New Brunswick's minister of Natural Resources; and Slam Exploration president Mike Taylor together at an airport in New Brunswick in 2003 after all three parties had reached a 5-year agreement to use MegaTEM surveys to explore for new deposits that might extend the life of Falconbridge's 41-year-old Brunswick base metal operation in the Bathurst camp. Falconbridge recently walked away from the Bathurst joint venture after Slam did not produce the necessary funds for this year's exploration program.

Falconbridge slams door on Slam JV

Unable to come up with the funds to finance this year’s exploration on the Bathurst joint venture in New Brunswick, Slam Exploration (SXL-V, SLMXF-O) was finally given its walking p…


Falco ponies up from Koniambo

Partners Falconbridge (FAL.LV-T, FAL-N) and Socit Minire du Sud Pacifique (SMSP) have succesfully weathered a court challenge to their control over the Koniamb…





Falco ponies up for Koniambo

With a yearend deadline looming ever larger, Falconbridge (FAL.LV-T, FAL-N) has agreed to solely finance developmen…


Crowflight’s Bucko study proves positive

A feasibility study on the Bucko nickel deposit in the Thompson belt of Manitoba shows favourable economics, putting a $22.6-million net present value on the project….




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