SUPPLY OPPORTUNITY – Phelps Dodge coming to Canada TORONTO - From our friends at CAMESE we have learned that representatives of PHELPS DODGE of Phoenix, Arizona, are ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 15, 2006 | 5:00 pm
ALUMINUM MERGER – Rusal, Sual, Glencore to create world leader MOSCOW - Russian aluminum producers RUSAL and SUAL GROUP are teaming up with GLENCORE INTERNATIONAL of Switzerland ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 15, 2006 | 5:00 pm
COPPER MERGER – bcMetals fends off Imperial bid VANCOUVER - The board of BCMETALS CORP. has strongly recommended that its shareholders reject the unsolicited takeo... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 15, 2006 | 5:00 pm
HEALTH & SAFETY – South African government challenged JOHANNESBURG - A miner who formerly worked at the Vaal Reefs mine belonging to ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI is challenging the... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 15, 2006 | 5:00 pm
BASE METAL PROCESSING – First stage of Mount Isa mill expansion complete AUSTRALIA - The first stage of an expansion program at the Mount Isa zinc concentrator has been successfully comple... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 15, 2006 | 5:00 pm
CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES: VIEWPOINT – You are what you eat: Merger dos and don’ts Less than one week after we [Proudfoot] published the article "Managing Merger Mania", two enormous M&A announcemen... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 15, 2006 | 5:00 pm
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS – Rambler, Northern Shield, Orezone and Grande Cache Coal RAMBLER METALS & MINING of St. John's, Nfld., has named George Ogilvie to the position of VP of operations to overs... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 15, 2006 | 5:00 pm
ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR – Bob Lipic honoured THUNDER BAY, Ontario - The 2006 NORTHERN ONTARIO BUSINESS AWARD for Entrepreneur of the Year has been given to Bob ... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 15, 2006 | 5:00 pm
DRILLING CONTRACT – Cabo wins work at Garson mine ONTARIO - CABO DRILLING of North Vancouver, B.C., has been awarded the contract for 6,400 metres of definition dril... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 15, 2006 | 5:00 pm
BASE METAL MILL – Outokumpu goes once more to Kazakhstan KAZAKHSTAN - OUTOKUMPU TECHNOLOGY of Finland has signed a contract with an affiliate of RUSSIAN COPPER to design an... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 15, 2006 | 5:00 pm
COAL MINING – Pine Valley’s two steps back, one forward BRITISH COLUMBIA - Not all the news over the last week from PINE VALLEY MINING of Vancouver is terrible, but two of... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 11, 2006 | 5:00 pm
NICKEL EXPLORATION – Australian mine yields 2.9% over 111 metres WESTERN AUSTRALIA - BRILLIANT MINING of Vancouver reported the discovery of a new zone grading 2.90% Ni over 111 me... Canadian Mining Journal Staff | October 11, 2006 | 5:00 pm