Teck to produce 25% more coal

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TECK RESOURCES LTD. $36 (Toronto symbol TCK.B; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 590.8 million; Market cap: $21.3 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 1.9; Dividend yield: 1.7%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.teck.com) is spending $1 billion to increase production at its metallurgical coal mines in B.C., and reopen its Quintette coal mine in northern B.C. This investment will help Teck increase its coal output to 30 million tonnes in 2013, up from the 23.5 million to 24.5 million tonnes it will probably produce in all of 2011. The extra production will help Teck take advantage of rising steel demand in Asia. Teck is a buy. buy…