Teck Resources Limited

Imperial Metal's Mount Polley team stands on the newly discovered Northeast zone. From left: Pierre Lebel, chairman; Art Frye, senior mine engineer; Patrick McAndless, VP exploration; Brian Kynoch, president.

Copper exploration heats up in BC

Vancouver — Reminiscent of the 1970s, copper exploration has once again taken centre-stage in the hunt for metals in British Columbia.Sparking the revival are higher prices and a new discovery made b…


Geophysical surveying at the Blue Ice project on Victoria Island.

Blue Ice proves puzzling

After a summer’s drilling on the High Arctic Blue Ice project at Victoria Island, there appear to be more questions than answers for Diamonds North Resources (DDN-V).Both the Carina and newly discover…


Ender Ozaydin, project geologist for Odyssey Resources, inspects a road exposure at the Altintepe property in Turkey.

Odyssey funds Turkish projects (November 24, 2003)

Following in the footsteps of its peers, Odyssey Resources (ODX-V) is attempting to raise $2 million via a private placement.Pacific International Securities shall try to place 6.7 million units of th…


bcMetals banks $5m for Red Chris project

Vancouver — In the midst of an aggressive drill campaign at the historic Red Chris copper-gold project in northwestern British Columbia, bcMetals (C-V) has added $5.25 million to its coffers through …


Wheaton concludes Los Filos acquisition

Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) has taken full control of the Los Filos gold project in Mexico’s Guerrero state, putting it on-track to increase annual gold-equivalent production by 40%.In late October…


Metalex Ventures and Arctic Star Diamond take samples during a drilling program in the Attawapiskat area of northern Ontario.

Diamonds North finds more stones at Blue Ice

Having completed a second season of exploration field work on the Victoria Island diamond projects in the High Arctic region of both Nunavut and the Northwest Territories, Diamonds North Resources (DD…


Goldcorp cashes in on gold rally

Higher gold prices and a slew of encouraging earnings reports augured well for Canadian producers over the Oct. 21-28 report period. The Toronto Stock Exchange’s gold sub-group climbed 10.71 points to…


Encouraging signs for zinc and lead

ZincAfter two years of depressed zinc prices in a narrow range, the price peak of US$877 per tonne in August shows an encouraging ability by this market to finally move. Stronger prices are fundamenta…


Metal traders run down gold

Gold bugs caught a chill in the first week of October: by the morning of Oct. 7, an ounce of the yellow metal was fetching US$376.20 in London markets, or US$8.30 less than a week earlier. Silver fare…


Photo by Thomas SchusterWolfden's project geologist, Ian Neill, stands near a drill rig on the West zone.

Wolfden steps up drilling in Nunavut

In November and December, three rigs will attempt to expand the West zone along strike as well as to depth. The program will consist of 20-30 holes in total.When The Northern Miner visited the project…


Wheaton River cashes-up

Looking to continue its recent shopping spree, Wheaton River Minerals (WRM-T) has arranged its second $100-million equity financing in a month by lining up a group of underwriters led by Griffiths McB…


Odyssey trenches Tavsan

Junior Odyssey Resources (ODX-V) has begun trenching its Tavsan property in hopes of uncovering a near-surface sediment-hosted gold deposit.Situated in western Turkey, Tavsan was first explored by Tec…


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