B.C. Approves Underground Mining at Red Chris Despite Recent Worker Entrapment

Three workers were trapped 500 metres underground by two collapses during exploratory drilling but were safely rescued after more than two days in a refuge station.

In the mountains of northwestern British Columbia, a government has chosen to go deeper — literally and symbolically — by approving underground block-caving at Red Chris Mine less than a year after three workers were trapped 500 metres below the surface by the very kind of work this expansion requires. The provincial government and the Tahltan Central Government, on whose ancestral territory the mine sits, both gave their consent, binding the operator to 27 enforceable conditions designed to turn hard lessons into lasting safeguards. It is a decision that sits at the intersection of economic n

B.C. Approves Underground Mining at Red Chris Despite Recent Worker Entrapment

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