Diavik Celebrates Production Start at A21
Diavik Celebrates Production Start at A21 On August 20, 2018, Diavik held an opening celebration for the start of mining the A21 kimberlite. Invited guests included the company’s Indigenous community partners, representatives from the Government of the Northwest Territories and industry. This is the last of Diavik’s kimberlites to be mined, and it will not […]
The Road to Amaruq
The Road to Amaruq The road to Amaruq stretches 170 km, starting from Baker Lake, Nunavut. It reaches north 105 km to the Meadowbank gold mine and then extends a further 50 km north to Agnico Eagle Mine’s latest gold discovery, the rich Amaruq deposit. The richest zone at Amaruq, Whale Tail, is an additional […]
Baffinland applies for Phase 2 Mary River expansion
Baffinland applies for Phase 2 Mary River expansion In August 2018, Baffinland Iron Mines filed an application with the Nunavut Impact Review Board to increase annual production, now at 4.2 million tonnes, to 12 million tonnes. Included in the application were plans to build a rail line from the Mary River mine to Milne Inlet, […]
Northern Mining At a Glance
Northern Mining At a Glance Diavik’s Big Rocks In October, Rio Tinto and Dominion Diamonds announced the finding of three large, exceptional diamonds, called Diavik’s Stars of the Arctic. Each has a name, as follows: Vega of the Arctic™, 177.71 carats, one of the largest rough diamonds ever produced in Canada; Altair of the Arctic™, […]
Design with a Difference
From its corporate headquarters in Winnipeg, Accutech Engineering has built a 30-year reputation designing more than 100 buildings and technical solutions for the special challenges of the North without losing sight of needs of Nunavummiut in the process. “Nunavut is a special place,” said Brent Wall, President and CEO. “From an engineering perspective it’s a […]
Design with a Difference
By John Curran From its corporate headquarters in Winnipeg, Accutech Engineering has built a 30-year reputation designing more than 100 buildings and technical solutions for the special challenges of the North without losing sight of needs of Nunavummiut in the process. “Nunavut is a special place,” said Brent Wall, President and CEO. “From an engineering perspective […]
Help Wanted & Needed
For resource-rich Canada, a healthy growing mining sector has always been part of our overall economic vigor and social stability. While the benefits of that relative strength have not always found their way into Aboriginal communities, that’s likely all going to change going forward if you consider the findings of a pair of recent research […]
Board Approves Prairie Creek Road
Board Approves Prairie Creek Road After several years of work, the assessment of Canadian Zinc’s proposed Prairie Creek Mine access road is almost complete and the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board is recommending its approval to Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs. In a letter to the minister which accompanied the […]
CanNor Helps Inuvialuit Assess Gas
CanNor Helps Inuvialuit Assess Gas Navdeep Bains, Minister responsible for CanNor, recently announced an investment to support a feasibility study of natural gas development in the Beaufort Delta region of the Northwest Territories. The Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC) is leading this project. This Indigenous-owned corporation seeks to lower living costs for local residents and businesses […]
The Many Facets of Mining: Eelow Ejetsiak
Did you know that the Canadian mining industry directly employs more than 373,000 workers across the country in mineral extraction, smelting, fabrication and manufacturing, and indirectly employs an additional 190,000 in other related fields. Mining is also the largest private sector employer of Aboriginal people in Canada on a proportional basis. Here at ABQ we […]
