Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly Online
Mining Weekly Magazine Cover
Magazine in Store Now!
Advanced Search
 
 
powered by
GOLD 1096.40 $/ozChange: 2.45
PLATINUM 1345.00 $/ozChange: 2.00
R/$ exchange 7.54Change: 0.00
R/€ exchange 11.19Change: 0.00
 
Zinc
 
BASE METALS

Copper falls, rising inventories signal weak demand

0 COMMENTS
Copper fell on Thursday, with another jump in inventories underscoring weak demand as OECD consumption languishes and analysts see high prices deterring Chinese buying. At 1547 GMT, copper for three-months delivery on the London Metal Exchange...
5th November 2009
 
 
BASE METALS

HudBay sees mid-2010 decision on Guatemala nickel project

0 COMMENTS
Canadian base-metals miner HudBay Minerals expects to make a final decision on whether to proceed with the Fenix nickel project, in Guatemala, around the middle of next year, CEO Peter Jones said on Wednesday. The company is trying to come up...
4th November 2009
 
 
M&A

Farallon starts sniffing at acquisition prospects

0 COMMENTS
Vancouver-based Farallon Mining believes now is the right time to start looking around for companies or assets that would fit with the firm's objective of building a multi-mine, mid-tier company, says CEO Dick Whittington. Farallon achieved...
4th November 2009
 
 
CANADA

HudBay quarterly revenue slid 21%

0 COMMENTS
Toronto-based HudBay Minerals on Tuesday reported a 21% decline in revenue for the third quarter, after weaker copper and zinc prices offset higher gold prices. Revenue fell to C$194,6-million from C$247,4-million a year earlier.
4th November 2009
 
 
ZINC

HudBay announces restart of Manitoba mine, concentrator

0 COMMENTS
TSX-listed Hudbay Minerals will restart its Chisel North mine and concentrator in Snow Lake, Manitoba, effective immediately, at a capital cost of about C$7-million, the company announced on Friday. The operations will ramp up to full...
30th October 2009
 
 
BASE METALS – 2

Chinese group commissions 150 000-t/y copper smelter in Zambia, despite economic slowdown

0 COMMENTS
Zambia’s President Rupiah Banda last week commissioned the Chambishi copper smelter, which is owned by China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group (CNMMG).
30th October 2009
 
 
CANADA

Debt paydown still top priority for Teck

0 COMMENTS
Vancouver-based Teck Resources may find itself sitting a lot more comfortably than was the case six months or so, but CEO Don Lindsay made it clear on Thursday that he won't be happy until the company's term loan is paid down and it once again...
29th October 2009
 
 
base metals

Lundin Mining earned $3,7m in Q3

0 COMMENTS
Toronto-based Lundin Mining on Thursday posted net income for the third quarter of $3,7-million, compared with a $199-million net loss a year earlier. (The company recorded $228,2-million in noncash charges in last year's third quarter.)
29th October 2009
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zinc Multimedia
image
VIDEO
image
View all
 
 
International Zinc Association sees more growth... Video
Zinc business will improve in 2010/11 - Exxaro Video
Exxaro sees better second-half on improved coal... Video
Miners should position themselves for even... Video
image
Audio
image
View all
 
 
Acquisitive HudBay already has 'irons... Audio
Ontario fast-tracks mining law revamp... Audio
Zinc surplus may be lower than... Audio
Mexico's biggest new gold mine... Audio
Teck expects record copper, coal... Audio