{"id":750249,"date":"2026-06-20T21:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750249\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T21:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:35:20","slug":"province-approves-underground-expansion-at-northwest-b-c-s-red-chris-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/750249\/","title":{"rendered":"Province approves underground expansion at Northwest B.C.\u2019s Red Chris mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Province approves underground expansion at Northwest B.C.\u2019s Red Chris mine<\/p>\n

Published 10:23 am Friday, June 19, 2026<\/p>\n

B.C. has approved a major expansion for Northwest B.C.\u2019s Red Chris Mine, allowing the open-pit mine to be extended underground and prolonging operations to at least 2038.<\/p>\n

The approval is the second assessment undertaken through an agreement with the Thaltan Nation.<\/p>\n

Red Chris is a copper and gold mine 18 kilometres southwest of Iskut owned by the Newmont Corporation, and is on both federal and provincial priority project lists.<\/p>\n

The province expects the expansion to add 1,800 jobs during peak construction, while protecting 1,500 current jobs. It is the seventh major mining project approved in the past 18 months.<\/p>\n

Red Chris is also where a cave-in last summer trapped three contractors<\/a> for two-and-a-half days before rescue crews could reach them. An underground expansion obviously comes with new risks for \u201cfall of ground\u201d incidents like that one.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey followed their training, they were safe, and they were extricated successfully,\u201d Premier David Eby said at a Friday (June 19) press conference announcing the approval. \u201cIt is still a reminder, to all of us, that we can\u2019t be complacent about mine safety. We have to ensure those safeguards are in place.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said both the province and Newmont are conducting reviews of the incident.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: \u2018A great, positive outcome\u2019: trio rescued 60 hours after B.C. Red Chris mine collapse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Province approves underground expansion at Northwest B.C.\u2019s Red Chris mine Published 10:23 am Friday, June 19, 2026 B.C.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[244562,903,49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-750249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-bc-north","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}