Colorado-headquartered Newmont is the 70-per-cent owner and operator, along with B.C.’s Imperial Metals Corp., which holds a 30-per-cent stake in the Red Chris mine, an open-pit copper and gold mine located 80 km south of Dease Lake in B.C.’s far northwest. It employs 350 miners.

Imperial Metals Corporation ('Imperial” or the 'Company”) (TSX:III) provides an update on the two fall of ground incidents at the 30% owned Red Chris mine in northwest British Columbia.

Red Chris is operated by Newcrest under a Joint Venture Agreement with Imperial. Since becoming operator in August 2019, Newcrest has embarked on an extensive work program to define the potential ...

A rescue operation is underway to retrieve three miners trapped underground in northwest B.C. The miners work at the Red Chris mine on Tahltan Nation territory near Dease Lake, B.C., about 420 kilometres west of Fort Nelson.

Imperial Metals Corporation ('Imperial” or the 'Company”) (TSX:III) reports that on July 22, two fall of ground incidents occurred in the access way to an underground work area of a non-producing project at the Red Chris Mine in British Columbia,