III: TSX Chairman: Pierre Lebel (mug) President and COO: J. Brian Kynoch, P.Eng. Vice President, Exploration: Patrick M. McAndless, P.Geo. Imperial Metals Corp. focused in 2012 on expanding resources at its Mount Polley open-pit... — Updated 11/11/2012

III: TSX Chairman: Pierre Lebel President and COO: J. Brian Kynoch, P.Eng. Vice President, Exploration: Patrick M. McAndless, P.Geo. Imperial Metals Corp., organized in 2001, is a Vancouver-based miner focused on discovering, developing... — Updated 11/6/2011 Full story

Mining exploration activity in northern British Columbia approached record levels in 2010 with explorers setting a new drilling record and spending about C$168 million in pursuit of a wide range of minerals, including gold, copper,... — Updated 1/23/2011 Full story

Efforts to build an electricity transmission line critical to economic development of northwestern British Columbia moved closer to reality in 2010. Cheered by the prospect of access to cheap power, scores of miners flocked to the... — Updated 10/31/2010 Full story

III: TSX Chairman: Pierre Lebel (mug) President and COO: J. Brian Kynoch Vice President, Exploration: Patrick M. McAndless Imperial Metals Corp., organized in 2001, is a Vancouver-based miner focused on discovering, developing and... — Updated 10/31/2010

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Jan. 21 that federal regulators must confine their mine project review scoping decisions to alternatives allowed under provisions of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. But in a unanimous... — Updated 2/28/2010 Full story

Though federal and provincial regulators prevailed in a legal challenge to the green light they gave Imperial Metals Corp. for the Red Chris copper-gold porphyry project in northwestern British Columbia, the proposed mine has another maj... — Updated 2/28/2010 Full story

Romios Gold Resources Inc. Nov. 11 reported the discovery of significant copper, gold and silver mineralization on its Dirk Property located about 37 kilometers, or 24 miles, southeast of NovaGold Resources Inc.-Teck Resources Ltd.'s... — Updated 11/22/2009

III: TSX Chairman: Pierre Lebel President and COO: J. Brian Kynoch Vice President, Exploration: Patrick M. McAndless Imperial Metals Corp., organized in 2001, is a Vancouver-based miner focused on discovering, developing and operating ba... — Updated 11/1/2009

The Canadian government has approved C$130 million in funding for construction of the Northwest Transmission Line in northern British Columbia, a power conduit that could eventually connect with Alaska. The 335-kilometer transmission lin... — Updated 9/27/2009

The recession is taking its toll among mining companies with properties in Alaska and northwestern Canada as mergers and acquisitions surged in this sector during the second quarter, in step with a global industry trend. Companies... — Updated 8/30/2009 Full story

Producing mines Thompson Creek Metals Co. operates the Endako Mine, a molybdenum producer for more than 40 years. Located near Fraser Lake in northern British Columbia, Endako includes three open pits, a mill and a roasting facility,... — Updated 2/22/2009 Full story

The Northwest Transmission Line along Highway 37 is once again on the front burner in British Columbia, and development of the 517-kilometer-long, or 321-mile-long, power line could provide easier access to Lower 48 markets for power... — Updated 10/26/2008 Full story

Canada's Federal Court of Appeal has set aside a lower court ruling and confirmed a federal environmental assessment of the Red Chris copper-gold project 18 kilometers, or about 11 miles, southeast of the village of Iskut, east of the... — Updated 6/29/2008

Building a power line into northern British Columbia could attract C$3.5 billion in mining investment to the area, according to preliminary findings of an independent study. The Northwest Power Line Coalition, an industry group that... — Updated 5/25/2008 Full story

Canada's ministries of Fisheries and Oceans and Natural Resources have joined the attorney general of Canada and Imperial Metals Corp. subsidiary bcMetals Corp. in appealing a Sept. 25 ruling of the Federal Court of Canada, which set... — Updated 11/25/2007 Full story

Two of Canada's westernmost governments are moving forward with power transmission projects aimed at bringing lower cost energy and jobs to rural residents while spurring mine development in remote areas. British Columbia and Yukon... — Updated 10/28/2007 Full story

A Canadian federal court slapped Imperial Metals Corp. in September with a significant regulatory setback in its bid to develop the copper-and gold-rich Red Chris project in northwest British Columbia. But the results of its 2007... — Updated 10/28/2007 Full story

BcMetals Corp.'s plans to develop its potentially lucrative Red Chris copper-gold project in northern British Columbia may be moot now that Imperials Metals Corp. is the apparent winner of a recent bidding war for the Vancouver,... — Updated 2/25/2007

From the opening volley last fall in what became a heated bidding war between two Canadian junior mining companies seeking to acquire BcMetals Corp. of Vancouver, B.C., observers couldn't predict what would happen next. But Imperial... — Updated 2/25/2007

Taseko Mines Ltd. said Nov. 10 it will reconsider plans to offer C$35.7 million ($31.6 million) to acquire bcMetals Corp. in the wake of that junior's maneuvers to avoid a hostile takeover. Taseko, a subsidiary of Hunter Dickinson Ltd.,... — Updated 11/26/2006 Full story

No sooner than clearing an infrastructure hurdle to development of its Red Chris copper-gold project in northern British Columbia this year, bcMetals Corp. encountered another obstacle in the form of a blockade against road access to... — Updated 9/24/2006 Full story

Simmering frustration among British Columbia's miners over the government's failure to settle aboriginal land claims and reduce red tap boiled over March 3 as the industry unloaded on British Columbia Minister of State for Mining Pat Bel... — Updated 3/14/2004 Full story