Taseko sells stake in molybdenum mine
Canada's Taseko Mines Ltd intends to sell a 25% stake in its Gibraltar copper/molybdenum mine to Japanese trading house Sojitz Corp. for CAN 180 million, sending its shares up 17%. Shakespeare Nickel Mine to resume operations
URSA Major Minerals Inc. is planning to resume mining operations at the Shakespeare Nickel Copper Mine located 70km west of Sudbury, Ontario. Diamondex settles with Canada Nickel
Diamondex Resources Ltd has reported a settlement of the Action brought in the Supreme Court of British Columbia by Canada Nickel Corp. against Diamondex, its wholly owned subsidiary, Nickel Bay Resources Inc. and Randy C Turner, President and CEO of Diamondex. Stainless steel output expected to drop in 2009
MEPS has announced that global crude stainless steel production is expected to decline by 2 million tons to 23.9 million tons in 2009. Buy America welding consumables
Lincoln Electric has introduced Buy America welding consumables to meet the Buy America requirements for infrastructure rebuild projects related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). 
PennEngineering of Danboro, Pennsylvania, US has released PEM self-clinching fasteners for use in stainless steel sheets. 
Striking Vale Inco miners in Sudbury, Ontario, have new restrictions on their picket lines. 
Alcoa Forging & Extrusions has commissioned Siempelkamp to engineer and produce the cast parts of one of the world’s largest closed-die forging presses located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. 
Lincoln Electric has released the new Big Red 500, for welding in remote locations and under extreme conditions. 
Canadian-based Talisman Energy has found commercially-viable oil reserves at Block 64 in northern Peru.