Category: US & Canada

IDM Mining Ltd. announces that underground drilling has commenced using two core rigs at the advanced-stage Red Mountain Underground Gold Project, located west of Stewart, British Columbia. An estimated 7,600 meters in more than...

Coeur Mining has entered into a definitive agreement with Alio Gold to acquire a property package adjacent to Coeur’s Rochester mine in west-central Nevada. The acquisition includes Alio’s Lincoln Hill and Wilco projects, its...

Denison Mines has reported the results of the prefeasibility (PFS) of its flagship Wheeler River uranium project at the eastern end of the Athabaska Basin in northern Saskatchewan. The PFS supports development of two mines on...

Equinox Gold has agreed to acquire the Mesquite heap-leach gold mine in southeast California from New Gold for $158 million in cash. The acquisition immediately establishes Equinox as a gold producer. The mine’s 2018 production...

Cypress Development Corp. has reported the results of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its Clayton Valley lithium project in Nevada, about 200 miles northwest of Las Vegas. A 15,000-metric-ton-per-day (mt/d) nominal...

Nevada Copper has transitioned from pre-construction works to full-scale construction at its 100% owned Pumpkin Hollow underground copper project 10 miles southeast of Yerington, Nevada, which in turn is an approximate 80-mile...

North American Palladium Ltd. announced the results of a new feasibility study, incorporating major changes to the life of mine plan for the Lac des Iles Mine Property in northwestern Ontario. Based on the success of the recent...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced Barrick Gold U.S. Inc. has stabilized and secured an 11-acre pile of mercury waste tailings at the Cordero mercury mine, near...

Coeur Mining Inc. has announced commercial production, effective September 1, at its new high-grade Silvertip silver-zinc-lead mine located in northern British Columbia. “We completed the acquisition of Silvertip in October 2017...

Teck Resources announced in late July the sale of its two-thirds interest in the Waneta Dam in British Columbia, Canada, to BC Hydro for $1.2 billion cash. The dam is located south of Teck’s Trail, British Columbia operations...

Construction of McEwen Mining’s Gold Bar mine is on track for completion in 2018, and commercial production is expected to begin in the first quarter of 2019. Activity at Gold Bar has reached full capacity with more than 200...