McEwen is working on a preliminary economic assessment for the expansion of the Fox complex.

Lundin Mining fell the most since March after it agreed to acquire Josemaria Resources for C$625 million.

About $31.5 million will be used to advance the company’s lithium hydroxide converter and refinery in Germany.

Gold Royalties said it is taking its offer directly to Elemental’s shareholders after its two previous approaches to the junior failed to engage Elemental’s board of directors.

In 2020, the average value of B.C.’s top performing mining stocks jumped 228%.

Angela Bigg, previously general manager, operations, will be the first female to lead the mine and its 1,100 employees.

The project is in the Rouyn-Noranda camp of Quebec, in the footprint of the former Horne mine that Noranda operated from 1927 to 1976.

The gold stream entitles Wheaton to 8% of the gold produced from Blackwater in British Columbia.