…  Plc increased its hostile bid for Canadian nickel miner Falconbridge Ltd. by 7.2 percent to $16.3 billion to thwart Phoenix-based Phelps Dodge Corp.’s plans for the mining industry’s largest takeover. Xstrata, the Zug, Switzerland-based …  Dodge isn’t going to win,” Havens-Hasty said. Mining companies are battling for natural resource assets as China, the world’s …

…  that there is likely to be three key playmakers — Canadian/Australian Mega Uranium, John Borshoff’s Paladin and Toro …  Sydney-based Canadian lawyer who founded Pancontinental Mining, of Jabiluka fame, in the early 1970s. Mega, which has the Ben Lomond …  that M&A activity in the uranium sector is on the boil came last week with a $34 million bid for SA uranium explorer Marathon …

Canadian stocks may fall, as oil and gas producers including Suncor Energy Inc. retreat alongside the price …  gained 9 cents, or 3 percent, to C$3.10. . EuroZinc Mining Corp. (EZM CN): The Vancouver-based metals company whose shares have …

…  index gained 123.18 points to end the day at 11,372.20. Oil stocks got a lift from higher crude oil prices as the August futures …  US a barrel. Suncor Energy added $1.95 to $84.49; Canadian Natural Resources climbed $2.03 to $57.74. In other market news, …