Electrifying Time for Tlįcho Road
Within the next few months , the GNWT and Tlįchǿ Government will learn the fate of their jointly proposed Tlįchǿ All-Season Road from Behchoko to Whati. While the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board considers the evidence it heard during its recently conducted hearings on the planned development, one thing is clear – support for […]
Stanton Hospital Over Half Way Complete
Stanton Hospital Over Half Way Complete Yellowknife’s new Stanton Territorial Hospital is now more than 60 per cent complete and it is expected to open to the public by the summer of 2019. According to the most recent numbers available from the GNWT, a total of 760,778 hours have been worked at site to date. […]
$10M Training Facility Takes Shape
$10M Training Facility Takes Shape Work is well underway on Aurora College’s new Centre For Mine and Industry Training, which is expected to formally open for use in Fort Smith on or before the next school year. According to Jayne Murray, manager of communications for Aurora College, site preparation activities began in June 2017 with […]
$130M Nanisivik Base to Open Soon
$130M Nanisivik Base to Open Soon The Department of National Defence confirmed to Construction North of 60 magazine by email that the $130 million facility is expected to be operational in 2018. “The HMCS Harry DeWolf is scheduled for delivery in 2018,” says Daniel Le Bouthillier, National Defence’s head of media relations, public affairs. “The […]
Nunavut Arctic College Raises the Bar
Nunavut Arctic College Raises the Bar The Nunavut Arctic College Expansion and Community Learning Centre project, begun in March 2016, is expected to be finished in November of this year. The $24 million complex is a major expansion of the college, which provides culturally relevant education that’s key to documenting, protecting and advancing Inuit language […]
Canyon Creek Road Advances
Canyon Creek Road Advances The $20-million project, funded by the federal and territorial governments, also includes the construction of five kilometres of roads surrounding Canyon Creek. “The contractor started right-of-way clearing work on March 15, 2017,” said Greg Hanna, communications coordinator with the GNWT Department of Infrastructure. “Embankment construction started on June 15; after completion of […]
New Iqaluit Airport on Schedule, Budget
New Iqaluit Airport on Schedule, Budget Nunavut has now completed the largest capital infrastructure project in the territory’s history with the opening of the improved Iqaluit International Airport and it was done over a period of just three years. Constructed through a Public-Private Partnership (P3) between the Government of Nunavut and winning bidder Arctic Infrastructure […]
NWT Mining and Mineral Exploration Update 2016
NWT Mining and Mineral Exploration Update 2016 This year marks 25th anniversary of the diamond discovery at Lac de Gras by geologists Chuck Fipke and Stewart Blusson. This news caused the largest staking rush in Canadian history. Their discovery resulted in Canada’s first diamond mine, Ekati, and ignited a $28-billion-dollar industry that established Canada as […]
Faces in Mining: Leni Keough
Leni Keough remembers when people thought it was crazy to look for diamonds in the North. Keough, now president and chief executive officer of exploration company Olivut Resources, was one of those “crazies” in the late 1980s. As a young geologist, Keough searched for diamonds, and over time, worked on many successful diamond exploration programs. […]
Faces in Mining: Dr. Catharine Farrow, Ph.D
Watching the first molten gold stream from the blazing furnace at TMAC’s Doris Mine complex was “fabulous,” recalls Catharine Farrow, CEO of TMAC Resources Inc. That event, late on the night of February 9, 2017, marked nearly 30 years since the discovery of the huge Hope Bay deposits on the mainland shore of the Coronation […]
