News Summary

• Vancouver-based Teck Resources says it will remain Canadian, even as it plans to merge with British multinational Anglo American.
• The $70-billion deal would create a new company called Anglo Teck.
• Teck has two major resource operations in the province: the Highland Valley copper mine about 50 kilometres southwest of Kamloops and the West Kootenay smelting operations in Trail.
• Combined, they represent hundreds of jobs in the B.C.
• Interior and millions of dollars to the provincial economy overall.