Canada


Construction of the processing plant at Canada Lithium's mine near Val d'Or, Quebec. Source: Canada Lithium

Canada Lithium starts mine commissioning

Canada Lithium (CLQ-T) has started commissioning the open pit and processing plant at its Quebec Lithium mine near Val d’Or, Que., with first production of spodumene concentrate expected shortly, followed by lithium carbonate output early…


Premier updates Trans-Canada resource

Premier Gold Mines (PG-T) has completed a much-anticipated resource estimate on the four gold deposits—Hardrock, Brookbank, Kailey and Key Lake — that make up its Trans-Canada project in the Beardmore-Geraldton Greenstone belt.



The town hall in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., 175 km northeast of Prince George.

HD Mining bulk samples controversy in BC

HD Mining wants to develop an underground coal mine in northern B.C. The resource on its property is as good as it gets in the coal world — high-quality metallurgical coal, the kind used to make steel — and there’s enough of…



Cerro Resources and Goldcorp's Cerro del Gallo gold-silver project in Mexico, 270 km northwest of Mexico City. Source: Cerro Resources

Primero snapping up Cerro del Gallo

Toronto-based gold producer Primero Mining (P-T, PPP-N) has waded into merger-and-acquisition waters with a friendly offer to buy Australian gold explorer Cerro Resources (CJO-V, CJO-A) in an all-stock deal worth US$120 million.



Double Trouble for Taseko

The holiday season has been rough for Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X), which is facing a potential strike at its operating mine and a new setback in the seemingly endless effort to permit its new mine.


Drillers at Brixton Metals' Thorn gold project in British Columbia. Source: Brixton Metals

Brixton finds high-grade silver at Thorn in BC

Vancouver-based explorer Brixton Metals (BBB-V) can barely contain its excitement over the silver-equivalent grades it has been cutting at its Thorn pollymetallic project, 130 km southwest of Atlin in northwestern B.C. The company followed up…



Workers underground at the Ocampo mine. Source: AuRico Gold

AuRico announces share buy-back

Flush with US$750 million in cash from the sale to Minera Frisco (MSNFY-O) of its Ocampo mine and  adjacent exploration projects Venus and Los Jarros in Mexico’s Chihuahua state and its 50% interest in Orion, an advanced exploration…


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