Pasminco Zinc Inc

Vancouver — Drilling has enabled Southwestern Resources (SWG-T) to confirm the stratiform nature and continuity of high-grade gold mineralization at the Boka 1 project in China’s Yunnan province.

The first hole drilled by OntZinc (OTZ-V) on the Northeast Fowler trend in upstate New York has cut a 2.8-metre interval averaging 19.5% zinc and 6.2% lead beginning at a depth of 412 metres.

Administrators of the Australian zinc and lead producer Pasminco have rejected a bid by Venture-listed developer Ontzinc (OTZ-V) to take over the insolvent company’s assets for A$1.7 billion.Ontzinc h…

(The following excerpt from The Commodity Refiner, a monthly publication of Barclays Capital Research, provides an overview of current copper and lead markets.)The outlook for global copper supplies i…

Melkior — Florent Bell and Francois Desrosiers appointed to board of directors.Pacific Minerals — Rui Feng resigned as director.Pasminco — Mark Rayner, Geoff Allen and Andrew Guy resig…

The following is the third of four instalments culled from The Commodity Refiner, published by London, U.K.-based Barclays Capital Research. This week we offer an overview of copper and lead markets.C…

Troubled Australian zinc producer Pasminco has appointed an administrator to take over the company’s affairs after a standstill agreement with the company’s creditors broke down in September.Pasminco,…

A local currency that had lost a fifth of its value against the U.S. dollar might have been expected to help local commodity producers make near-windfall profits, as costs stayed static and revenues t…