Teck’s dilemma: How to pay off a $10-billion debt while metal prices fall all around
Vancouver – For the last few years Teck Cominco (TCK.B-T, TCK-N) has been a reliable, dividend-paying investment op…
Zinc-Lead
Nevsun arranges US$89M debt for Bisha (November 17, 2008)
Vancouver — The Industrial Development Corp. of South Africa (IDC) must have liked what it saw at Nevsun Resources’ (NSU-T, NSU-x) Bisha project when it visited the site in Eritrea this August. The I…
Tarsis into zinc and silver at Goz Creek
Vancouver – Tarsis Capital (TCC-V) hit long intercepts of zinc and silver at its Goz Creek property, 180 km northea…
Dia Bras Exploration plans mill at Bolivar mine
A pilot mining program at the Bolivar mine in the Piedras Verdes district of Mexico’s Chihuahua state h…
Sage Gold hopes to extend Kodiak’s discovery
SITE VISIT Jellicoe, Ont. — Nigel Lees, president and CEO of Sage Gold (SGX-V, SGGDF-o), and Bill Love, the company’s vice-president of business development, are trying to solve a geological…
Breakwater closes mines
Zinc miner Breakwater Resources (BWR-T, BWLRF-o) is suspending operations at its Langlois mine, 200 km north of Val d’Or, Que., and the Myra Falls mine on Vancouver Island, B. C.
Early winter hits Teck’s Red Dog (November 10, 2008)
Teck (TCK. B-T, TCK-t) says that “adverse weather conditions” have forced it to send off its final container ship early and without a full load from its Red Dog zinc-lead mine in Alaska, easily the wo…
Geologix grows San Agustin resource
Vancouver – A new resource estimate for the San Agustin polymetallic property in Durango, Mexico, has doubled the p…
Sage Gold hopes to extend neighbour’s discovery
Jellicoe, Ont. — Nigel Lees, president and CEO of Sage Gold (SGX-V, SGGDF-O), and Bill Love, the company’s vice-pr…
Coal cushions Teck’s third quarter (November 03, 2008)
Vancouver — For Teck (TCK. B-T, TCK-n) coal continued to be its saving grace in its most recent quarter.
Citigroup turns bearish across the board (October 31, 2008)
Vancouver – In a new commodity outlook Citigroup Global Markets predicts all base metal markets moving to surplus i…
Nevsun arranges US$89M debt for Bisha (October 30, 2008)
Vancouver The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC) must have liked what it saw at Nevsun Reso…