The open-pit copper and gold mine in B.C.'s far north, where three miners are trapped underground, is slated to transition to a new form of mining soon, in a project the provincial government says it intends to fast-track.

Newmont has confirmed that two “fall of ground” incidents disrupted the accessway to a non-producing underground area of the Red Chris mine.

Construction of Newmont Corp.’s Red Chris mine was “a huge economic driver to Northwest B.C.” and remains an important building block for the province’s critical minerals strategy, according to Michael Goehring,

The workers, who have found shelter in underground refuge chambers, have been trapped since Tuesday without communications

Three workers trapped underground for two days at Newmont's Red Chris Mine in Western Canada were safely brought to the surface.

B.C. Premier David Eby has confirmed three miners are trapped in a mine in northern B.C. The miners work at the Red Chris mine on Talhtan Nation territory near Dease Lake, B.C. Two of the miners are from B.C. and one is from Ontario, the premier said at a news conference at the First Ministers meeting in Ontario Wednesday morning.