729 Polaris Mine Storm ine 701 vik M anisi 728 N n 700 Borde e Min iver ry R Ma 850 OVERVIEW 2014 e Lak vo NUNAVUT Bra 848 MINERAL EXPLORATION, MINING & GEOSCIENCE 849 I. y ley a miq it Row B im a Q r y ja t ter Ba u O S Fos ach a W vayok a oak Be e Park T Taloy all N ll ( P ri H in Mt. P to King I. it elly) c ce Stra g i Garry Bay or se to Ca V ir F Dea n mbridg William Rasmussen ce A B KIVALLIQe Bay REGION Prin ay Island s Oro 100°W 90°W Parry Bay80°W harle uk C r Bay Gjoa Haven Kugaar nd verne 100 Basin ittee Isla Ta Que Storis Passage Comm en M 1 au s I. High d G Wale Cop Lak ulf perm e ine R Kivalliq Region Bay iver 103 E CLE Ha OX CIR UE mm 188 75 37.5 0 75 150 F TIC TIQ er ARC RC Ulu SIN LE A 233 227 BA ERC Queen Kilometres C Maud Gulf q H ilaluga ood R MBS Q 760 iver Bath Projection: Canada Lambert Conformal Conic, NAD 83 Bowman Bay iak Hoo urst idl d Inlet 462 se Bay Ch 2 129 189 Repul Jeri cho M Izo 104 ine k La 248 ilaq ke 232 101 Q Lupi 220 Finnie Bay n Mi P 761 ne River Ukkusiksalik N It F 6 chen 102 ox Lak 221 ck W e e 234 Ba Amer Lake a C q ge h jua r Ba a allik 698 ruq y n M Beverly C Ama 463 n TP PMA d el 520 Kiggavik North n u 5 Wis Nanuq set hbone Thelon Basin o or 699 S D ine ape Meadowbank M e N C y Turqa 523 PTO our sbur vik m THAM arb Sali Aberdeen L eyhound o SOU ral H d ake Gr c o n l C S la ND B Is Thelon 521 q e ISLA ay M WS 671 677 ujaarvik TP ivalli st B 3, 8 Aber Inu K W Ea deen ham 676 s S ing 670 Lake e t r 674 669 Baker arry ou Not e o H t v h i Kiggavik 678 Ba R ons Ba nd R South 675 ker Lake Gibb Isla r y e Inuit Owned Lands D v Kig a BS i gavik Luxx ly y M R Ba Mallery Lake Nutaaq 673 sin y rc 547 Baker Ba e 461 let M Agnico-Eagle Option rfield In n Cheste s o r d l 4 e o e na v Kahu G h i Dubaw f ats T nt gaarjuup Co R 460 Iqalu o l Lake dine anse Ferguson Lake Melia 524 Nunanga TP y Island M 639 Ba and Qamanirjuaq let Isl t Angila Rankin In n k LAS MA 672 AT CP w R Yathky 400 RB a obin ed 549 Pistol Bay b 546 zan 525 u Ka Lake D 544 AN Whale Cove 545 F13 548 Nowyak 579 South Henik Maguse River Lake Arviat Povungnituk Bay Thle 60°N wiaza McConnell River MBS Kiyuk River 522 7 60°N N BAY HUDSO Commodity Groupings Areas with Surface and/or Boundaries SON Subsurface Restrictions NLCA1 NunUavuDt Settlement Area Base Metals Nickel-Copper PGE E D' H Diamond Rare Earth Elements CPMA -Caribou Protection BAI Nunavut Regions Measures Apply NILCA 2 Nunavik Settlement Area Gold Uranium MBS -Migratory Bird Sanctuary MANITOBA Iron NP -National Park Provincial / Territorial NWA -National Wildlife Area Active Mine Inactive Mine TP -Territorial Park Transportation Routes WP -Wildlife Preserve Symbol with no fill means INACTIVE. Meadowbank Road WS -Wildlife Sanctuary Meliadine Road Bold project number and name signifies Milne Inlet Tote Road Geological Mapping Programs major or advancing project. Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Yellowknife-Contwoyto Winter Road nlet aig I Office Proposed Bathurst Inlet Port and Road H Inuit Owned Lands (Fee simple title) 877 Surface Only Proposed Izok Corridor Road Proposed Steensby Inlet Rail Line er Surface and Subsurface LEGEND Belch 1NLCA The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement nds 2 NILCA The Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement Isla 100°W 90°W http://cngo.ca/exploration-overview/2014/ KIVALLIQ REGION KIVALLIQ REGION GEOLOGY years ago) until the beginning of the Paleozoic era (540 million The Kivalliq region of Nunavut is underlain by the Canadian years ago). In the Kivalliq, the granite-intruded sedimentary Shield, where some of the oldest rocks in Canada are found. rocks and volcanic greenstone belts have experienced several These rocks consist of metamorphosed granitic, sedimentary episodes of folding and faulting. This tectonic activity has and volcanic rocks that formed during the Precambrian enriched some of these rocks with metals such as gold, silver, period, the time from when the Earth formed (about 4.5 billion nickel, or copper. A large continental basin formed later and NUMBER PROJECT OPERATOR STATUS BASE METALS 400 ATLAS Anconia Resources Corp. Active DIAMONDS 460 Kahuna Dunnedin Ventures Inc. Active 461, 462 Luxx, Qilalugaq North Arrow Minerals Inc. Active 463 Nanuq Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. Active GOLD 520 Amaruq Agnico Eagle Mines Limited Active 521 Greyhound Aura Silver Resources Inc. Active 522 Kiyuk Prosperity Goldfields Corp. Active 523 Meadowbank Mine Agnico Eagle Mines Limited Active 524 Meliadine Agnico Eagle Mines Limited Active 525 Pistol Bay Northquest Ltd. Active 544 – 546 Angikuni Lake (AN – 544, F13 – 545, Adamera Minerals Corp. Inactive Robin – 546) 547 Mallery Lake Adamera Minerals Corp. Inactive 548 Nowyak Adamera Minerals Corp. Inactive 549 RB Anconia Resources Corp. Inactive IRON 579 Maguse River Ridgemont Iron Ore Corp. Inactive NICKEL-COPPER-PGE 639 Ferguson Lake Canadian North Resources Inactive and Development Co. RARE EARTH ELEMENTS 669 Nutaaq Forum Uranium Corp. Inactive URANIUM 670, 671 Aberdeen, Turqavik Cameco Corporation Active 672 Angilak Kivalliq Energy Corporation Active 673 Baker Basin Kivalliq Energy Corporation Active 674 Kiggavik AREVA Reources Canada Inc. Active 675 – 678 North Thelon (Agnico Eagle Option – 675, Forum Uranium Corp. Active Inuit Owned Lands – 676, Kiggavik North – 677, Kiggavik – 678) 698 Amer Lake Adamera Minerals Corp. Inactive 699 Thelon Basin NexGen Energy Ltd. Inactive Please refer to the map on the cover for the location of active and inactive projects in the Kitikmeot region. Bold text signifies a major project. KIVALLIQ REGION accumulated thick layers of sandstone on top of the ancient advanced uranium project in Nunavut with an estimated Shield rocks in the western part of the region. Mineralization resource of over 133 million pounds of uranium concentrate. occurred later within these sandstones to form large uranium Exploration on the project in 2014 consisted of more than deposits, similar to the ones in Saskatchewan. 11,000 metres of exploratory drilling to expand known areas of mineralization at several prospects on the property. The Much of the bedrock in the region is hidden beneath a thick mine plan consists of four deposits to be exploited using cover of clay-rich and sandy sediments left behind as glaciers open pit mining and a fifth deposit as an underground disappeared. Traces of harder minerals, including minerals operation. The $2.1 billion project proposal outlines a three associated with diamonds, can be found in the sediments to four year period to construct the mine, a 14-year operating and traced back to their source in the bedrock. Ground mine life, and a ten year closure, decommissioning, and investigations and airborne geophysical surveys can be used monitoring period. The mine construction phase would to discover the locations of various metal or diamond deposits. require about 750 workers and once in operation, would Prospecting for gold is possible by looking for rocks rich with provide up to 600 jobs. The final hearing for the project quartz veins or rusty coloured weathering. proposal is scheduled for March 2015. In preparation for the final public hearings, AREVA convened workshops in SELECTED MINING AND EXPLORATION HIGHLIGHTS Baker Lake and Chesterfield Inlet in 2014 to understand Agnico Eagle Mines Limited operates the Meadowbank differences between Inuit traditional knowledge and scientific gold mine, located 80 km north of Baker Lake. The company sources of knowledge. employs about 700 people at the mine, of which about 35 per cent are Nunavummiut from communities across PROGRAMS AND STUDIES the Kivalliq. More than 11,000 tonnes of ore per day is CARVING STONE DEPOSIT EVALUATION processed at the mine site which is currently scheduled to The Nunavut Carving Stone Deposit Evaluation Program produce gold until 2018. Agnico Eagle is also developing the is a territory-wide collaborative project, led by the Government Meliadine gold project, located 20 km north of Rankin Inlet of Nunavut’s Department of Economic Development & on Crown and Inuit Owned Land. In 2014, the company Transportation, to locate and evaluate carving stone deposits, invested $42 million in exploration and development work to assess their suitability for artisans, and to assess the on the property, including improvements to the all-weather potential to supply nearby communities. The program road from Rankin Inlet and extending an underground ramp. completed its final year of field investigations in 2014 with a Over 35,000 m of exploratory drilling was carried out on the second visit to Repulse Bay, where the large Kovic serpentinite property to expand reserves at the known deposits and to deposit is located. So far, twenty carving stone deposits have find new targets. Agnico Eagle recently received approval for been identified in the Kivalliq region. a project certificate which permits mining on the property if certain terms and conditions are followed.