Category: US & Canada

For more than 25 years, Tom L. Lee, founder and president of Montana Gold Inc., has searched for, discovered and acquired long-lost, forgotten 19th century gold mines in the remote mountains of western Montana. To date, Lee has...

First Vanadium Corp. has reported positive results from a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its Carlin vanadium project six miles south of Carlin, Nevada. Active mining of the project would continue for 11 years, plus...

Seabridge Gold announced in late April that an updated preliminary economic assessment (2020 PEA) of its 100% owned KSM project in northwest British Columbia has confirmed the potential for a dramatic improvement in project...

Cameco resumed production at its Port Hope Conversion Facility’s UF6 plant and its Blind River Refinery in Ontario the week of May 18, and planned to achieve regular production levels the week of May 25. On April 8, Cameco...

Marathon Gold Corp. has reported results of a prefeasibility study (PFS) of its Valentine gold project in Central Newfoundland. The study supports an open-pit mining operation, with low initial capital cost of C$272 million and...

TMAC Resources has announced results of a preliminary feasibility study (PFS) of expansion of mine production from 2,000 metric tons per day (mt/d) to 4,000 mt/d at its Hope Bay operations in Nunavut, Canada, including...

Ascot Resources has reported robust results from a feasibility study of its Premier and Red Mountain gold projects near Stewart, British Columbia. The study outlines a low-capital restart plan for the previously mined...

A preliminary assessment (PEA) of its Mont Sorcier iron and vanadium project 18 kilometers (km) east of Chibougamau, Quebec. The PEA outlines a drill-blast-haul, open-pit mining operation, followed by magnetic separation to...

Atac Resources has reported an updated mineral resource and preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the Tiger deposit at the western end of its 1,700-km2 Rackla gold property in east-central Yukon. The update incorporates...

Foran Mining has announced the results of a positive prefeasibility study (PFS) of its McIlvenna Bay zinc-copper volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit in east-central Saskatchewan, about 85 kilometers (km) by road west of...

In support of Nevada’s carbon-reduction objectives and in partnership with Gov. Steve Sisolak’s administration, Nevada Gold Mines (NGM) — the joint venture between Barrick Gold Corp. (61.5%) as the operator and Newmont Corp....

On March 17, a U.S. district court rejected a challenge to the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) reinstatement of Twin Metals’ two hard rock mineral leases in northeastern Minnesota. The court agreed that the DOI has authority...