This makes a lot of sense actually. Red Chris probably could use someone to share the financing load and a major electronics company needs to ensure steady access to metals. I think Samsung has a few copper smelters too - 3 in Kazahkstan alone.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?client=safari&rls=en&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&q=http://tin.er.usgs.gov/copper/output/copper-fLD.kml&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=websearch

Mitsubishi has invested in numbers of projects too and they have their own smelters (e.g. they own 25% of CUM, arranged most of the financing and take 100% of the concentrate at market prices).

The good news for CUU in all this that is we won't have to finance our mine. Teck will take it and finance it (and/or whoever else we might sell it too). And there will be no problem finding buyers for the concentrate. Stewart Terminal is still talking of upgrading - but won't know until the New Year apparently. They're going to be busy up there.