First Mining partners with Big Ridge on Newfoundland gold project
First Mining partners with Big Ridge on Newfoundland gold project Barge drilling at Springhole. Credit: First Mining Gold First Mining Gold (TSXV: FF; US-OTC: FFMGF) has entered into a definitive agreement with Big Ridge Gold (TSXV: BRAU), allowing the explorer to earn up to an 80% stake in the past-producing Hope Brook gold project in southwestern Newfoundland. Big Ridge may earn up to 80% in Hope Brook through a two-stage, five-year earn in that calls for a total of $20 million in spending on the project, the issue of 36.5 million of its shares to the vendor and a $2 million payment to Fir...