Mining

The United Steelworkers union (USW) “welcomes” criminal charges against Detour Gold for the June 2015 death of a worker at its mine in northeastern Ontario. USW Ontario director Marty Warren wants the charges to be “prosecuted as soon as possible.

Detour Gold has been charged with criminal negligence causing death under the Criminal Code of Canada, following the death of an employee at its Detour Lake gold mine last summer.

A preliminary economic assessment (PEA) prepared for Pure Gold Mining forecasts a 6.5-year mine life for its Madsen Gold Project at Red Lake.

A fledgling White River-area gold miner has started shipping ore to Barrick Gold’s Hemlo mill for processing. The shipments are from Harte Gold’s 70,000-tonne advanced exploration bulk sample at its Sugar Zone property in northwestern Ontario.

Kirkland Lake Gold plans to spend $52 million on development at its Timmins East Operations in 2016, and will spend $8 million on an exploration program slated for late 2016 or early 2017.

IAMGOLD has received approval from the federal government to move forward with its Côté Gold mine near Gogama.

Probe Metals and Adventure Gold Inc. have announced they will be merging the two companies. Probe Metals is a gold exploration company with property in the Timmins area. It was formed last year following the sale of Probe Mines to Goldcorp in March.

The long-term demand for metals is strong. The nearly eight billion people on the planet want new stuff and almost all of it comes from mines.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hinted that federal support in some form could be announced soon related to the stalled Ring of Fire mineral project.

Ardiden Ltd. received the Bernie Schnieders Discovery of the Year Award for its Silver Star North Graphite Project from the Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Association at its annual convention and awards dinner in Thunder Bay, April 5.