Commercial production begins at Richmont's W Zone gold project Thursday, October 17, 10:55 AM ET | RIC Richmont Mines (RIC +4.1%) says its W Zone gold project in Quebec has successfully completed the three month pre-production phase and commercial production has been declared. RIC expects W Zone to produce ~3K oz. of commercial gold production during Q4 and projects 12K oz. of commercial gold production in 2014.