Photos of Victoria Gold accident show heap leach landslide in Yukon
Victoria Gold (TSXV: GCX) has suspended operations at its Eagle mine in the Yukon after an accident at its heap leach pad. There were no injuries, the company said. The…
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Skeena secures $1B finance package for Eskay Creek gold-silver development
Skeena Resources (TSX: SKE; NYSE: SKE) is getting US$750 million ($1.02-billion) in funding from Orion Resource Partners to finish the Eskay Creek mine redevelopment in northern British Columbia. Orion will…
Contango to pour first gold from Alaska mine on July 8
Contango Ore (NYSE-A: CTGO) said on Tuesday that the Manh Choh mine in Alaska will pour its first gold on July 8 at the Fort Knox mill. The mine, a 70-30…
Kenorland targets gold, lithium in first Ontario exploration program
Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD) said Monday it has started exploration in northwestern Ontario’s Red Lake district and Wabigoon subprovince. The work involves multiple regional-scale surface exploration programs at its South…
Sitka buys Victoria Gold’s abutting Clear Creek in Yukon
Sitka Gold (TSXV: SIG) (OTCQB: SITKF) is expanding in the Yukon by acquiring the adjoining Clear Creek property from Victoria Gold (TSX: VGCX) in a cash and shares deal valued…
Beaty optimistic on Mexico ahead of cross-Canada bike trip to Equinox Gold’s mine opening
Mexico’s new leader is an improvement while Canada should be careful in blocking Chinese investment, according to Ross Beaty, the Canadian Mining Hall of Famer who founded Pan American Silver…
Nations Royalty listing marks Indigenous milestone
The Frank Giustra-backed Nations Royalty (TSXV: NRC), which may be the country’s first Indigenous company to focus on production contracts like net smelter returns, joined the Toronto Venture exchange on…
South Africa’s unity rule may boost mining
South Africa’s new coalition government with a pro-business party could help the world’s leading platinum producer improve its troubled power and rail networks getting metal to market, analysts say. The…
Agnico PEA projects $1B capex to go underground at Detour Lake
Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) has posted a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for underground development at its Detour Lake open pit gold mine, in northeastern Ontario that pegs…
Ramp Metals ‘thrilled’ with new high-grade gold find in Saskatchewan
Ramp Metals (TSXV: RAMP) shares rose 24% after it reported partial assay results from a new high-grade gold discovery in Saskatchewan. The first hole the company drilled at the project,…
Snowline Gold’s first resource shows large-scale, high-grade potential in Yukon
Snowline Gold’s (TSXV: SGD; US-OTC: SNWGF) Valley deposit dwarfs most other projects in grade and metal, according to the most anticipated initial resource for a Yukon asset in decades. Valley…
Bluestone stock folds as Guatemala challenges Cerro Blanco open-pit permit
The Toronto-quoted shares of Bluestone Resources (TSXV: BSR; US-OTC: BBSRF) lost 47% Monday after the Guatemala government said it would challenge a decision allowing the Cerro Blanco gold mine to…