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First Mining Finance Outlines Permitting Activities for Its Springpole Gold Project, Canada

November 3, 2017

First Mining Finance Corp. provided an update on the current and proposed future permitting activities at its 100 percent owned Springpole Gold Project, located approximately 110 kilometres east of Red Lake in northwestern Ontario.  On September 21, 2017, the company

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Cloud Peak Energy: Utilizing American Coal to Advance Economic Growth

November 3, 2017

Cloud Peak Energy Inc. is one of the largest U.S. coal producers and the only pure-play Powder River Basin (PRB) coal company. The company owns and operates three surface coal mines in the PRB: the Antelope and Cordero Rojo mines

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IDM Mining’s Red Mountain Underground Gold Project Application and EIS Accepted for Review, B.C.

November 3, 2017

IDM Mining’s application for an environmental assessment certificate / environmental impact statement for the Red Mountain Underground Gold Project has been formally accepted for review by the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEA Agency). 

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U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $30 Million to Assist America’s Coal Communities

November 3, 2017

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $30 million to support 35 projects in 16 states under the 2017 Assistance to Coal Communities (ACC 2017) initiative. The funding will assist locally-driven

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Ramaco Carbon Denied Permit in Appeals Decision for Wyoming Coal Mine

November 2, 2017

A coal company that was recently denied a permit to mine in northern Wyoming is appealing the decision. The Casper Star-Tribune reports Ramaco Carbon filed the appeal Friday, with company lawyers saying there were a number of procedural errors leading

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Barrick’s Golden Sunlight Underground Mine Set to Be Operational by Next Year, Montana

November 2, 2017

Dan Banghart, general manager of Golden Sunlight Mine, not only wore a light pink dress shirt last Thursday, his entire office was decorated in the color typically regarded as feminine. It was for a good cause. The mine’s Canadian-based owner,

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Wisconsin Lawmakers Approve Lifting 20-year Mining Ban

November 2, 2017

A legislative committee has signed off on a Republican bill that would end Wisconsin’s nearly 20-year ban on gold, silver and nickel mining. Wisconsin lawmakers passed a bill in 1998 that requires sulfide mining applicants to prove a similar mine

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Montana Judge Gives Reprieve to Signal Peak’s Bull Mountain Mine Averting Layoffs

November 2, 2017

A large Montana coal mine averted dozens of layoffs on Tuesday after a judge allowed work to proceed on an expansion, even as the government reconsiders the mine’s contribution to climate change. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy

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Utah’s Three Largest Coal Mines Sold to Group Led by Murray Energy

November 2, 2017

The largest coal company in Utah, which employs about 840 people at three central Utah mines, has been sold for an undisclosed price to a consortium led by Murray Energy Corp. The Sufco, Skyline, and Dugout Canyon mines will become

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Two Fatalities at SSR-Mining’s Marigold Mine, Nevada

November 2, 2017

The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office and Mine Safety and Health Administration are investigating a mining accident between a haul truck and a light vehicle that killed two people at the Marigold Mine Tuesday afternoon. The Associated Press reports that the

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