HudBay’s earnings soar
Significantly higher prices for its bread-and-butter metals saw HudBay Minerals (HBM-T, HBMFF-O) more than octuple …
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Agnico-Eagle’s Q1 and LaRonde II
Agnico-Eagle Mines (AEM-T, AEM-N) continues to build on its impressive assets by confirming it will go ahead with i…
Teck pinches Falco COO
Having already crashed the wedding party, Teck Cominco (TEK.SV.B-T, TCKBF-O) has now poached Falconbridge’s (FAL.LV…
Major financings continue to roll (May 11, 2006)
Vancouver – Abundant cash remains available to mineral explorers and developers in this resiliently strong resource…
Royalties tables scoping study for Raglan South (May 10, 2006)
Royalties tables scoping study for Raglan SouthQuebec-based nickel explorer Canadian Royalties (CZZ-T, CRYAF-O)…
Shares of Yukon Zinc tumble after feasibility study for Wolverine
Vancouver – A newly completed feasibility study has concluded that the Wolverine deposit owned by Yukon Zinc (YZC-…
Teck targets Inco, sans Falco
With its own bid for Falconbridge (FAL.LV-T, FAL-N) hung up on regulatory reviews in the United States and Europe, …
New Cantech tables Lucky Ship moly resource (May 08, 2006)
Vancouver — A mineral resource estimate is now in hand for New Cantech Ventures’ (NCV-V, NCTVF-O) Lucky Ship molybdenum deposit, located 65 km southwest of Houston, in west-central British Columbia….
‘Business as usual’ at Ekati
Three weeks into its first-ever strike, BHP Billiton’s (BHP-N) 7-year-old Ekati diamond mine, about 300 km northeast of Yellowknife, N.W.T., appears to be holding up just fine….
Teck posts record profits
Vancouver — Teck Cominco (TEK.SV.B-T, TCKBF-O) posted net earnings of $448 million, or $2.19 per share, for the first quarter of 2006, more than double the net income of $205 million, or $1.01 per sh…
Falconbridge soars on buoyant base metals
Higher metal prices helped Falconbridge (FAL.LV-T, FAL-N) more than double its earnings during the first three months of 2006….
First Nickel, Jaguar Nickel to merge (May 02, 2006)
Junior Canadian nickel producer First Nickel (FNI-T) and failed Guatemalan nickel explorer Jaguar Nickel (JNI-T) ha…