The records may not stop there: two other mining firms, Xstrata and Teck Cominco, had previously bid for Falconbridge and Inco respectively, and could make further offers.

纪录也许还会进一步被刷新——此前，另外两家矿业公司瑞士Xstrata和Teck Cominco公司也曾各自对鹰桥和Inco提出过收购要约，并且有可能进一步抬高价码。

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Those shares, in turn, have been rising for several years along with the firms' wares-nickel, for the most part, at Inco, and nickel and copper at Falconbridge (see chart).

几年来，随着产量日益增多(主要是Inco镍业公司的镍与鹰桥公司的镍和铜)，这些公司的股价也持续上扬。

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Inco said that it would review the bid but that it remained committed to its "value-creating" deal with Falconbridge.

国际镍业表示，将对收购要约进行审核，但该公司仍然坚持与鹰桥之间“创造价值的”交易。

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The output of the other, Falconbridge, complements the coal, copper and zinc businesses of its purchaser, Xstrata.

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He angled two large mining companies, Inco and Falconbridge, into a bidding war.

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Earlier this year, the shareholders of Inco and Falconbridge rejected a three-way tie-up with Phelps Dodge, an American copper miner.

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