Let's not forget Xstrata and Royal Golds interest:
Xstrata has interest in Schaft Creek via the Liard shares they got from falconbridge.
Falconbridge Limited owned 10.72% of Liard Copper Mines Ltd. and Xstrata acquired 100% ownership of Falconbridge in August 2006 which would have included their shares of Liard Copper Mines.
Royal Gold also has interest in Schaft Creek, they have a 3.5% NPI
From Royal Golds F4Q11
In July, Copper Fox Metals released a 43-101 compliant report related tothe resource estimation for their Shaft Creek deposit. One of the largest undeveloped copper gold molybdenum deposits in North America.They expect to complete a feasibility study by the end of this year. We have a 3.5% NPI interest in this property.
Both Xstrata and Royal Gold already deal with Teck:
Xtrata works with Teck:
target="_blank">BHP Billiton (33.75%), target="_blank">Mitsubishi Corporation (10%).
Royal Gold also works with Teck:
http://www.teck.com/Generic.aspx?PAGE=Teck+Site%2fDiversified+Mining+Pages%2fCopper+Pages%2fAndacollo&portalName=tc
Teck owns a 90% interest in the mine. Empresa Nacional de Minera holds the remaining 10%. In 2010, Camen de Andacollo sold an interest in future gold production to Royal Gold, Inc. equivalent to 75% of payable gold produced until cumulative production reaches 910,000 ounces of gold, and 50% thereafter.
