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Qikiqtani Region Geology and Axel Heiberg Islands. The widening of the ocean basin The Qikiqtani region includes and the other between Greenland and Nunavut is in part responsible for islands of the Canadian archipelago, the northern part this mountain building and is one of the most recent tectonic of the Melville Peninsula, and the Belcher Islands. Some of the events in Nunavut’s geologic history. oldest rocks in Canada are found in this region. They are part of the Canadian Shield and are exposed on Baffin Island and Long ago, thick ice sheets covered the entire territory and the Melville Peninsula. They also form the bedrock of eastern created the steep-walled fiords located on eastern Baffin and parts of . These granitic, Island and Ellesmere Island, where glaciers and ice caps volcanic, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks formed during remain to this day. Minerals left behind by the glaciers’ erosion the Precambrian period, the time from when the Earth was of the landscape help prospectors and geologists locate formed (about 4.5 billion years ago) until the beginning of the possible metal or diamond deposits. The rocks of the Qikiqtani Cambrian period (540 million years ago). The metamorphic region host many kinds of mineral deposits and occurrences, rocks in the region are highly deformed, faulted, and deeply including iron, gold, nickel, copper, lead, zinc, platinum, and eroded. Spectacular folds, large enough to be seen from diamonds. Clues about the location of these various deposits space, outline the present day shape of the Belcher Islands. can be found using ground and airborne geophysical surveys, by prospecting for minerals found in association with quartz To the west and the far north, the Qikiqtani region is made up veins, or by looking for rusty weathered sulphide-rich rocks. of thick Paleozoic sedimentary rock, originally deposited on an ancient seabed and continental margin. The layered rock units Selected Mining and Exploration Highlights occasionally contain coal seams and preserve many types of The first bulk carriers of iron ore sailed from Baffinland Iron fossils, from marine shells and fish to terrestrial mammals and Mines Corp.’s Mary River mine, near Pond Inlet, to market trees. Rocks that make up the Arctic platform have been gently in Europe in August 2015. Decreased demand for iron ore folded and tilted. They are exposed on many of the Arctic and low iron ore prices prompted Baffinland to request an islands and rise up to form the rugged mountains of Ellesmere amended project certificate that would allow it to transport

Number Project Operator Status BASE METALS 104 Seal Holdings Ltd. Active 105 Storm Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. Active 146 Borden MMG Ltd. Inactive COAL

199 Fosheim Peninsula Canada Coal Inc. Inactive DIAMONDS

200 Chidliak Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. Active

204 Mel North Arrow Minerals Ltd. Active

209 Qilaq Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. Active IRON 350 Mary River Mine Baffinland Iron Mines Ltd. Active 397 Haig Inlet Canadian Orebodies Inc. Inactive 398 Roche Bay Advanced Explorations Inc. Inactive 399 Tuktu Advanced Explorations Inc. Inactive NICKEL-COPPER-PGE 910 West Melville Vale Canada Limited Inactive

Please refer to the map on the cover for the location of active and inactive projects in the Qikiqtani region. Bold text signifies a major project. Qikiqtani Region more ore to Milne Inlet for shipping, and to use icebreaker that it may have better diamond grades than the CH-6 ships to transport that ore 10 months of the year. The kimberlite. The company expects to publish a revised company expects to submit a new Environmental Impact resource estimate for the two kimberlites in the spring Statement (EIS) for the amendment to the Nunavut Impact of 2016, and a Preliminary Economic Assessment of a Review Board (NIRB) in the spring of 2016. potential diamond mine at Chidliak in the summer of 2016.

At Aston Bay Holdings Ltd.’s Storm copper-silver-zinc project, Programs and Studies a ground gravity geophysics survey and other field work in Carving Stone Deposit Evaluation 2015 resulted in the identification of two new high-priority The Nunavut Carving Stone Deposit Evaluation Program is drill targets, Blizzard and Tornado, and one new prospect, a territory-wide collaborative project, led by the Government Squall. The company also announced in December that it had of Nunavut’s Department of Economic Development and completed an agreement with Commander Resources Ltd., Transportation. The goal of the project is to locate and evaluate and is now the 100 per cent owner of the property. In January carving stone deposits, to assess their suitability for artisans, 2016, Aston Bay announced that it had signed a letter of and to assess the potential to supply nearby communities. agreement with BHP Billiton Ltd. to advance the project. Regional studies took place across Nunavut between 2011 BHP Billiton will fund up to 9 years of exploration on the and 2013. In 2015, the Qikiqtani field program focused on project, with $2.5 million to be spent in the first two years. areas around Arctic Bay and to the south of Pangnirtung. A field program including geophysics, re-logging of historical drill core, and summer drilling is planned for the 2016 season. This work led to the identification of seven new marble carving stone sites in four locations near Arctic Bay. These findings North Arrow Minerals Inc. ran a glacial till sampling program more than double the number of known marble deposits at its Mel diamond project during the summer of 2015. The close to that community. A small ultramafic formation of company collected 227 till samples, which will be analyzed carving stone south of Arctic Bay was identified as a previously for their kimberlite indicator mineral content. Results from unknown kimberlite. The program has identified a total of this analysis are expected in early 2016. 119 carving stone locations across Nunavut since it began in 2011. A map of these locations will be released in 2016. Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. continued work on the Chidliak diamond project, on southeastern Baffin Island, to Nunavut Prospectors’ Program & Prospector Training determine the economic potential of three kimberlite pipes, The Government of Nunavut’s Department of Economic CH-6, CH-7, and CH-44. 2015’s field program included Development and Transportation offered a six-day prospecting 1,361 metres of core drilling on CH-6 and CH-7, and the course in Arctic Bay, Cape Dorset, Iqaluit, Pangnirtung, and collection of a 558.5 tonne bulk sample from CH-7. Early Qikiqtarjuaq in 2015. Course participants were introduced to results from the processing of the CH-7 bulk sample indicate basic rock identification and prospecting skills. Graduates of

Hercules aircraft in Childiak camp – Courtesy Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. Qikiqtani Region the course can apply for financial and technical assistance Drilling – the operation of making holes with a drill to sample through the Nunavut Prospectors’ Program to pursue their bedrock or other surface material such as glacial till or clay. own projects, and often find work as field assistants on mineral Diamond drilling produces a cylindrical core of rock, while exploration projects. In 2016, the program will be offered in reverse circulation drilling produces rock chips. Geologists Kimmirut, Qikiqtarjuaq, Clyde River, Pond Inlet, , study the drill core or rock chip material in order to map and Grise Fiord. rock types below the surface and to understand geological structures with the goal of finding mineral deposits or oil Geoscience Studies and gas reserves. In 2015, the Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office (CNGO) continued with its second year of the Strategic Investments Exploration – the range of activities used to search for deposits in Northern Economic Development (SINED) geoscience of useful, economically valuable minerals or oil and gas. program, and also partnered with Natural Resources Canada for the second phase of the Geo-Mapping for Geophysical survey – the collection of information associated Energy and Minerals (GEM) 2 program. with bedrock using sensors employed from the air or the ground. These sensors record electric, gravity, magnetic, Work done by the CNGO and its partners in 2015 included seismic, or thermal data. This type of study is used by mineral bedrock geological mapping of southern Baffin Island and exploration companies to detect physical properties of rocks the Chesterfield Inlet area, surface geology mapping and such as magnetism, gravity or conductivity. a lake sediment survey around Sylvia Grinnell Lake north of Iqaluit, further work on potential carving stone deposits Kimberlite – a type of igneous rock that sometimes contains on Baffin Island and around Rankin Inlet in the Kivalliq, diamonds. Kimberlites can be composed of intrusive rock further work on the use of satellite data in economic (which forms inside the earth) and extrusive rock (which forms mineral exploration, studies on the petroleum potential on the earth’s surface. of , and continued rock sampling for geochronology, the study of the age of rocks. Mineralization – the geological process by which a mineral is introduced into a rock and forms a mineral deposit. Glossary of Terminology Deposit – a natural concentration of a metal, gemstone Prospecting – the search for outcrops or surface exposures or other mineral substance, which may be economically of mineral occurrences with economic potential. Prospecting extracted but whose traits need a more detailed study takes place by walking on the land and observing it for to be classified as a resource. Also referred to as a evidence of mineral occurrences. Once an occurrence, mineral deposit. or prospect, is found, further work is necessary to determine if a deposit is present at the location.

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