Company will end operations at its Highvale coal mine.

Centerra Gold's stock opened 5.7% higher on Wednesday.

New Britannia refurbishment is about 64% complete and commissioning of the gold plant is expected in mid-2021, three months earlier than originally planned.

With its Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan on care and maintenance, Cameco reported a quarterly net loss of C$61 million.

In April, the company released a prefeasibility study for Valentine, which outlined a 12-year open pit and conventional milling operation producing an average of 175,000 oz. of gold annually in the first nine years of operation.

Company generated a total of 20,008 oz. from its Eagle River complex in Ontario in the third quarter of this year, at all-in sustaining costs of $1,047 per oz.

The province established a list of 22 minerals considered critical and strategic, and actions to encourage the expansion of CSM value chains.