Any chance you are mixing up Teck with Rio/Kennecott on the withholding of results/announcements issue?
Kennecott has certainly kept the Promontorio information under close wraps Reams of posts on this subject at Promontorio a few months back.
As you say there definitely are results available to be announced for Alacran but this is the first mention I can recall (don't read everything in detail so may have missed or forgotten it) about Teck possibly requesting withholding.
Perhaps with the buyback decision activated there is a different regime for news releases.
However, prior to this AZS seems to have had control of announcements for Alacran - not always put out as regularly or promptly as folks here on HC would prefer at times though.
ASX disclosure rules seem to have some grey areas especially when it comes to JVs. As Aposteriori said all "material" information has to be released...ultimately.
it) about Teck possibly requesting withholding.
