Category: US & Canada

The U.S. Senate recently passed bipartisan legislation for a land exchange between the U.S. Forest Service and Poly Met Mining Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of PolyMet Mining Corp. Passage of the legislation marks another...

Highland Copper Co. has reported the results of a feasibility study of its 100% owned Copperwood project at the western end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Average annual life-of-mine production is forecast at 61.7 million pounds...

Fireweed Zinc has announced positive results from an independent preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its Macmillan Pass zinc-lead-silver project 350 kilometers (km) northeast of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The study assumes...

Gensource Potash Corp. has entered into a definitive, binding off-take agreement with a senior North American agriculture industry leader. The agreement includes the purchase of 100% of the production from one “module” of...

Trilogy Metals has reported positive results from a prefeasibility study (PFS) of its Arctic copper-zinc-lead-silver-gold project in the Ambler mining district of northwest Alaska. Average annual payable production is estimated...

Premier Gold Mines has reported the results of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its 100% owned Cove project 32 miles south of Battle Mountain, Nevada. Production from an underground mining operation is estimated at...

NovaGold Resources reported in late April that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the lead federal permitting agency on the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Donlin gold project in southwest Alaska, has filed...

Compass Minerals announced a strike has been initiated by the union representing 341 hourly employees at its salt mine in Goderich, Ontario. Read the Whole Article in our Digital...

The Canadian government has granted environmental approval for Howse Minerals Ltd.’s proposed open-pit iron ore mine project in Labrador to proceed. “The meaningful consultation with Indigenous groups and the public, in...

On April 30, Hecla Mining Co. announced it has reached an agreement with the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to settle the unfair labor practice charge filed by the United Steelworkers (USW) in...

The county board of Marathon County, Wisconsin, adopted rules on April 11 aimed at regulating miner activity targeting the Reef deposit, previously explored and currently staked by Aquila Resources. According to the local...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an administrative order to Sunnyside Gold Corp. to conduct groundwater investigation activities at the Bonita Peak Mining District Superfund Site (BPMD) in Colorado....