Commodity
Copper

TRANSPORTATION: Yellowhead buys rail siding for Harper Creek

BRITISH COLUMBIA - Vancouver-based Yellowhead Mining continues to prepare for production from its Harper Creek copper-gold volcanogenic sulphide (VMS) deposit 150 km north of Kamloops. The latest milestone was the purchase of the former...

Getting Ready

Snow Lake will soon be living up to its name as another Manitoba winter sets in, but regardless of the weather, it won't slow things down for HudBay Minerals as it pushes on to get its $704-million Lalor project to…

Copper Mountain Mine is officially opened

International dignitaries and about 1700 neighbours from around the province recently attended the day-long Opening Ceremonies of Copper Mountain Mining Corporation's Copper Mountain Mine near the Town of Princeton, B.C. The $438-million mine,...

Hauling concentrate

Copper Mountain Mining Corp is pleased to announce that the first filtered copper concentrate was recently produced and deposited in the company's concentrate shed at its new Copper Mountain Mine in southern BC. (See story on Page 18). New...

Red Metal Gets Hot Reception

Copper may end up on some "hot" lists thanks to its popularity with thieves but there's certainly nothing criminal about how Copper Mountain Mining is stealing headlines around the world now that its Copper Mountain Mine has gone into production

Up and up with resource numbers

The words "mineral resources" might well be spelled "commodity prices". The mining industry understands that the higher the prices the more material falls within the definition of resources, meaning it has the potential to be economically...

PERSPECTIVE: Lots to like about copper

There is a lot to like about copper. Let's start with the fact that the price is hovering near record levels between US$4.25 and US$4.50 per pound. Then there is the beautiful and unique colour of polished copper, and as…

Capstone Mining Corp

hen you talk about Yukon mining, one of the first names that comes to mind is "Minto," because not only is it the only producing hard-rock mine in the Territory, but it's also one of the more productive copper-mining operations…

Western Copper Corp

estern Copper's mountain-side airstrip is the first taste of spectacular things to come for visitors to the company's Casino property. After landing on an upward slope looking skywards, visitors are soon distracted by the peripheral view of the...

CULTURAL DIVERSITY: Opera comes to Raglan mine

QUEBEC - Opera singers and base metal miners rarely have the opportunity to rub shoulders, but that is what happened at the Raglan nickel-copper mine in Nunavik. The mine is owned by Xstrata Nickel that also sponsors the Canadian Opera...

PERSPECTIVE: Did leak sink Taseko shares?

Did someone in Ottawa leak news of an Environment Canada decision more than two weeks before it was made public? That is what regulators would like to know, and they have begun investigating.