Day: March 24, 2020

Capstone Files Technical Report for Santo Domingo Project

Capstone Mining Corp. has today filed on SEDAR a National Instrument 43-101 compliant technical report titled “Santo Domingo Project, Region III, Chile, NI 43-101 Technical Report” for the positive update announced on January 19, 2020.

FDA Provides Emergency Use Authorization to PerkinElmer for COVID-19 Testing

“Despite the challenging environment, our employees have demonstrated unwavering commitment over the past two months to combat this global pandemic,” said Prahlad Singh, president and chief executive officer, PerkinElmer. “The breadth of PerkinElmer’s total workflow solution puts us in a unique position to rapidly address the needs of our clinical diagnostics customers.”

Agnico Eagle Provides Further Update on Quebec and Nunavut Operations

“The health, safety and well-being of all our employees and the communities that we operate in continue to remain our priority. As directed by the Quebec government, our Quebec mines will be placed on care and maintenance. At the same time, our Nunavut mines will be operating at reduced levels”, said Sean Boyd, Agnico Eagle’s Chief Executive Officer.

GoGold Intersects 18.8m Near Surface of 255 g/t Silver Equivalent at Los Ricos South Project

“Drilling continues at Los Ricos with 6 drill rigs as we accelerate the drilling required for our initial resource. At the Los Ricos North Project we continue with the groundwork preparing for an upcoming drill campaign, which we anticipate commencing after the Easter break,” said Brad Langille, President and CEO. “We continue to monitor the COVID-19 developments in Mexico and have implemented additional safety procedures at both Los Ricos and Parral as described in PR#11 dated March 18, 2020.”

Hecla Complies With the Quebec Government COVID-19 Order

“The Government of Quebec ordered the mining industry to reduce to minimum operations as part of the fight against the COVID-19 virus, so we are suspending our Casa Berardi operations,” said Phillips S. Baker, Jr., Hecla’s President and CEO.

Alamos Gold Announces 14 Day Suspension of Operations at Island Gold and Provides Update on Other COVID-19 Measures

“First and foremost, our focus is on ensuring we protect the health and safety of our employees and the communities in which we operate. At Island Gold, approximately half of our employees travel from various parts of Ontario and Quebec, while the other half are local residents. We have a very unique camp set-up at Island Gold, with the camp located directly within the town of Dubreuilville. For these reasons, we have decided that the best way to minimize the possible spread of the virus is to temporarily suspend the operation of the mine. This is a rapidly evolving situation and we will take further action based on the best available information,” said John A. McCluskey, President and Chief Executive Officer.

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