Newcrest buys land near Red Chris mine from Skeena

Output for this year is expected to be between 40,000 and 60,000 ounces of gold, reaching 7,000 tonnes a day by 2018.

The standoff marks a major setback for the miner, which is in the process of upgrading its copper assets in Zambia hoping to increase output by at least 50% by 2017.

The proposed law, however, would allow fracking for testing and research purposes.

Another person in serious conditions.

It would also create a a 15-kilometre long ‘‘super pit’’ from the union of Rio’s Mount Thorley Warkworth and Glencore’s Bulga open-pit mines.

Analysts say this is “make or break” time for the company behind the massive mine, Sirius Minerals.

Canada’s reputation as climate bad-boy was invented in Manhattan in 2008.

Northwest Territories, the northern Canadian region known for diamond mining, is giving a leg up to exploration companies through an incentive program it first rolled out in June.

With 24 million cubic metres of water and tailings flushed downstream of the Mount Polley gold and copper mine, the company’s biggest challenge now is to keep the remaining tailings and water contained.