http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/mining/teck-doubles-down-on-chile-copper-mine-investment-with-an-eye-on-electric-vehicle-demand

Good article. Teck has now bought out minority interests in 2 of their partnership projects! San Nicolas and QB2

I wonder if this is part of Teck’s plan to consolidate their assets? Could we be next? I’m looking for clues:

Copper, one of four business units at Teck besides steelmaking coal, oil and zinc, is a priority for the company.

“The big opportunity for us is to take the very strong cash flows from coal and from zinc and to deploy those into the copper growth projects,” Andrew Golding, senior vice president of corporate development said at a CIBC conference in Whistler in January.