Equinox Gold today announces plans to transfer all of its copper assets into a newly incorporated company named Solaris Copper Inc. Equinox Gold will continue to focus on advancing the Aurizona Gold Mine and the Castle Mountain Gold Mine to production while Solaris Copper explores and develops the copper projects to unlock the value of the copper portfolio. Sixty percent of Solaris Copper shares will be distributed to [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 14, 2018 -- Equinox Gold Corp. is pleased to provide an update on construction progress at its Aurizona Gold Mine in Brazil . Construction remains on schedule to pour gold by late 2018 with the expectation of producing on average 136,000 ounces of gold per year, and construction spending is tracking in-line with the US$146 million project budget. Aerial view of Aurizona Plant and Piaba [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 11, 2018 -- Equinox Gold Corp. is pleased to announce additional positive results from the Piaba West infill and step-out drill program and that drilling is underway at the Tatajuba target, both located at the Company’s 100%-owned Aurizona Gold Mine in Brazil. A total of 115 step-out and infill drill holes were drilled in the Piaba West area during 2017 and early 2018, demonstrating [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 03, 2018 -- Equinox Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that the Company has released its unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements and related management’s discussion and analysis for the three months ended March 31, 2018 . Equinox Gold’s principal assets are its wholly-owned, past-producing Aurizona gold mine in Maranhão, Brazil and its wholly-owned [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 25, 2018 -- Equinox Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that mining activities are underway in the Piaba Deposit at its Aurizona Gold Mine in Brazil . Construction remains on track to pour gold by late 2018. All dollar amounts are in United States dollars unless otherwise noted. Mining Activities Mining is underway to prepare for gold production by the end of 2018. The mining contractor [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 06, 2018 -- Vancouver, BC – Equinox Gold Corp. announces that its trading symbols have been changed on the OTC Markets in the United States to match the Company’s trading symbols on the TSX Venture Exchange in Canada. At market open today the Company’s common shares and warrants will trade under the symbols “EQXGF” and “EQXWF”, respectively, on [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 02, 2018 -- Equinox Gold Corp. has released its audited consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017. The Annual Financial Statements and accompanying Management’s Discussion and Analysis are available for download on the Company’s website at www.equinoxgold.com and on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Christian Milau, Chief Executive Officer [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 08, 2018 -- Equinox Gold Corp. is pleased to announce positive drilling results from near-mine exploration at the Company’s 100%-owned Aurizona Gold Mine in Brazil. Broad intervals of economic grade gold mineralization, including ultra high-grade gold values up to 1,005 grams per tonne gold , were intersected near surface at the Genipapo, Micote and Mestre Chico targets. The [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 05, 2018 -- Equinox Gold Corp. is pleased to announce that it has awarded the mining contract for its Aurizona Gold Mine in Brazil to U&M Mineração e Construção S/A . U&M is a Brazilian company with more than 40 years of mining contract experience offering earthworks, implementation and operation of mines and material-hauling services. The company has worked [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 15, 2018 -- Equinox Gold Corp. is pleased to announce the discovery of significant gold mineralization at the East Ridge target, peripheral to the current resource pit at the Company’s 100%-owned Castle Mountain Gold Mine in California. A channel sampling program covering a portion of the East Ridge target identified extensive, previously unrecognized gold mineralization on surface [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 12, 2018 -- Equinox Gold Corp. announces that it has received C$19.2 million from Pacific Road Resources Funds and issued 21 million Equinox Gold common shares to Pacific Road pursuant to Pacific Road’s exercise of non-dilution rights, as previously announced on January 16, 2018. The shares are subject to a four-month hold period expiring on June 9, 2018. No finder’s fees or [...]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 16, 2018 -- Equinox Gold Corp. announces that Pacific Road Resources Funds has provided notice to the Company of the exercise of its pre-existing non-dilution rights and will acquire an additional 21,000,000 Equinox Gold common shares for aggregate proceeds to the Company of C$19,215,000, subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval. When combined with the 23,824,968 Equinox Gold common [...]