Category: US & Canada

Rise Gold Corp. has submitted an application to Nevada county, California, for a “Use Permit” to allow the reopening of the historic Idaho-Maryland gold mine. The mine is located in the Sierra Nevada mountains of northeast...

Iamgold has exercised its option to increase its undivided interest in the Nelligan joint-venture project 60 kilometers (km) southwest of Chibougamau, Quebec, to 75%. Vanstar Mining Resources holds the remaining 25%. The project...

U.S.-based Santa Fe Gold Corp. said it will begin recommissioning its Billali mine to substantially increase output of its economic grade, high silica vein gold and silver siliceous vein material. This is in addition to its...

Skeena Resources has reported robust economics from a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its Eskay Creek gold-silver project in the Golden Triangle of northwest British Columbia. The study considers development of a...

Glencore Canada Corp. announced the permanent closure of the Brunswick Lead Smelter in Belledune, New Brunswick. The decommissioning process will begin immediately and the smelter will cease all operations by the end of the...

Equinox Gold has begun development of its Castle Mountain gold project in southeast California, 75 miles south of Las Vegas, Nevada, and 200 miles north of its currently producing Mesquite gold mine. Castle Mountain was mined...

Imperial Metals Corp. reported production at the Red Chris mine for the third quarter of 2019 was 19.5 million pounds (lb) copper and 8,419 ounces (oz) gold. These results represent 100% of production at Red Chris. Copper and...

First Mining Gold Corp. has reported positive results from an updated independent preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its 100% owned Springpole gold project in northwest Ontario. The PEA contemplates production of 410,000...

Premier Gold Mines has achieved commercial production ahead of schedule at the El Niño underground mine on the company’s 40% owned South Arturo Property located in Nevada’s Carlin Trend. The company also reported that new...

Fission Uranium’s recent prefeasibility study (PFS) for an underground-only mining scenario for the Triple R mine at its Patterson Lake South property in the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan describes a project...

Mosaic will temporarily curtail production at its Esterhazy mine in Saskatchewan, which when combined with a previously announced potash curtailment, brings total curtailments to up to 600,000 metric tons (mt). The curtailment...

Para Resources announced the successful start of the Gold Road mill and carbon-in-leach (CIL) plant on October 23, with expected doré production to begin in early November. During an extended circuit test in the first quarter of...