In recent months there's been almost frenzied mergers and acquisitions activity in the metals and mining sector thanks to surging base metal prices. In September Phelps Dodge itself lost out to ...

Phelps reorganized the business, began selling lumber, iron, steel, insurance. Next Phelps Dodge acquired a patch of ground in Bisbee, Ariz, and began to dig. In 1906 it announced in all New York ...

TORONTO (CP) - Investment Canada has extended for an additional 30 days its review of a proposed merger between U.S. copper giant Phelps Dodge Corp. (NYSE:PD) and Inco Ltd. (TSX:N), leaving ...

Having failed in its effort to acquire nickel miner Inco earlier this year, Phelps Dodge has turned from hunter ... 69 million pounds of molybdenum, a metal used for hardening steel.