10:10 AM EST - HudBay Minerals Inc. : announced that VMS Ventures Inc. has entered into a joint venture agreement and four separate option agreements with a unit of HudBay Minerals Inc., respecting its copper-rich Reed Lake Discovery Zone properties and a series of adjacent mineral properties held by VMS in Manitoba's Flin Flon Greenstone Belt. HudBay Minerals Inc.
shares T.HBM are trading up $0.08 at $10.96.