OVERVIEW 2018 Mineral Exploration, Mining and Geoscience KIVALLIQ REGION ! !

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Elu Belt Elu Belt Madrid Madrid 203 203 Mel Mel Boston Boston Inuk Inuk 308 308

Naujaat 204 204 Area A (CB) Area ThreeA (CB )Bluffs Three Bluff!s ! Four Hills-Cop Fou311r Hills309-Cop 311 309 307 306 307 306 Anuri-Raven Anuri-Raven West Plains W312est Plains 312 George Lake George Lake 310 Area B 3(CB)10 Area B (CB) 313 313 Area C (CB) Area C (CB) Goose Lake Goose Lake 6 6 Amaruq Amaruq 301 301 ! ! 302 Area A (M)302 Area A (M) Meadow River Mea331dow River 331 330 Meadowbank33 Mine0 Mea dowbank Mine Greyhound GreyAreahoun Bd (M) Area B (M) 321 332 321 332 ! ! 504 504 St. Tropez 322St. T333ropeAreaz C3 (M)22 333 Area C (M) 503 ! 502 ! Kiggavik Kiggavik Cone Hill Cone Hill White Hills White Hills314 Gibson31 4MacQuoidGibson MacQuoid Kahuna Gold Kahuna Gold 320 320 316 316 Parker Lake Parker Lake ! ! 315 Kuulu 315 Kuulu Fox Lake Fox L327ake 202 327 202 8 8 317 329 317 329 Kahuna DiamondsKahuna Diamonds Peter Lake Pete334r Lake 334 ! !Meliadine Meliadine Angilak Angilak 501 501Quartzite Quartzite Pistol Bay 352 335 353 335 ! !

Yandle Yandle 344 344 351 352 Noomut Noomut Hard Cash Hard Cash 323 323 ! ! 350 351 LEGEND LEGEND Nigel Nigel Commodity (Number of Properties)Commodity (Number of Properties) Kiyuk Kiyuk Diamonds, Active (2) Gold,Dia Inactivemonds, A(3)ctive (2) Gold, Inactive (3) 328 328 HUDSONH BAYUDSON BAGold,Y Active (19) Uranium,Gold, A Inactivective (19 (3)) Uranium, Inactive (3) Mine, Active (1) Mine, Active (1)

Areas with Surface and/or SubsurfaceAreas with RestrictionsSurface and/or Subsurface Restrictions CPMA Caribou Protection MeasuresCPMA ApplyCaribou Protection Measures Apply MBS Migratory Bird SanctuaryMBS Migratory Bird Sanctuary BAIE D' HUDSONBAIE D' HUDSNPONNational Park NP National Park NWA National Wildlife Area NWA National Wildlife Area TP Territorial Park TP Territorial Park WP Wildlife Preserve WP Wildlife Preserve WS Wildlife Sanctuary WS Wildlife Sanctuary

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Geological Mapping ProgramsGeological Mapping Programs Canada-Nunavut Geoscience COfficeanada-Nunavut Geoscience Office

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Transportation Routes Transportation Routes Meadowbank / Amaruq Road Meadowbank / Amaruq Road Meliadine Road Meliadine Road 0 50 100 0 50 200 100 300 200 400 300 400 Proposed Nunavut to ManitobaP rRoadoposed Nunavut to Road 1 NLCA The Nunavut Land Claims1 NLC AgreementA The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Kilometres Kilometres 2 NILCA The Nunavik Land2 N ClaimsILCA T hAgreemente Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement KIVALLIQ REGION

KIVALLIQ REGION GEOLOGY sandstone on top of the ancient Shield rocks in the western part of the Kivalliq. Mineralization occurred within these The Kivalliq region of Nunavut is underlain by rocks of the sandstones to form large uranium deposits, similar to the Canadian Shield, which are some of the oldest rocks in ones found in northern . Canada. These rocks consist of metamorphosed granitic, sedimentary, and volcanic rocks that formed during the Much of the bedrock in the Kivalliq region is hidden beneath Precambrian period, the time from when the Earth formed, a thick layer of clay-rich and sandy sediment called till, which about 4.5 billion years ago, until the beginning of the was left behind as glaciers disappeared. Traces of harder Paleozoic era, 540 million years ago. In the Kivalliq, minerals, including minerals associated with diamonds, the granite-intruded sedimentary rocks and volcanic can be found in the sediments and tracked back to their greenstone belts have experienced several episodes of source in the bedrock. Ground investigations and airborne large-scale folding and faulting. This tectonic activity has geophysical surveys can be used to discover the locations enriched some of these rocks with metals such as gold, of various metal or diamond deposits. Prospecting for gold silver, nickel, or copper. After this tectonic activity, a large is possible by looking for rocks rich with quartz veins or continental basin formed, accumulating thick layers of rusty-coloured weathering.

Number Project Operator Status Diamonds 202 Kahuna Diamonds Dunnedin Ventures Inc. Active 204 Naujaat North Arrow Minerals Inc. Active Gold 301, 302 Amaruq-301, Meadow River-302 Agnico Eagle Mines Limited Active 314 - 317 Cone Hill-314, Fox-315, Parker-316, Peter Lake-317 Agnico Eagle Mines Limited Active 320 Gibson MacQuoid Auryn Resources Inc. Active Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, 321 Greyhound Active Aura Silver Resources Inc. 322 White Hills Agnico Eagle Mines Limited Active 323 Hard Cash Silver Range Resources Ltd. Active 327 Kahuna Gold Solstice Gold Corp. Active 328 Kiyuk Cache Exploration Inc. Active 329 Kuulu NxGold Ltd. Active 330 Meadowbank Mine Agnico Eagle Mines Limited Active 331 - 333 Meadowbank (Area A-331, Area B-332, Area C-333) Western Atlas Resources Inc. Active 334 Meliadine Agnico Eagle Mines Limited Active 335 Pistol Bay Northquest Ltd. Active 344 Yandle Silver Range Resources Ltd. Active 350 - 352 Nigel-350, Noomut-351, Quartzite-352 Silver Range Resources Ltd. Inactive Uranium 501 Angilak ValOre Metals Corp. Inactive Orano Canada Inc., 503 Kiggavik Daewoo International Corporation, Inactive JCU Exploration (Canada) 504 St. Tropez Orano Canada Inc. Inactive Please refer to the map on the cover for the location of active and inactive projects in the Kivalliq region. Bold text signifies a major project. KIVALLIQ REGION

SELECTED MINING AND EXPLORATION The Gibson MacQuoid project was staked by Auryn HIGHLIGHTS Resources Inc., and now covers 375,000 hectares in 19 prospecting permits and 57 claims on the Gibson The Meadowbank gold mine, owned and operated by MacQuoid greenstone belt. The company completed an Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, is located 80 kilometres (km) exploration program on the property in 2018 that included north of and has a workforce of approximately the collection of almost 3,000 till samples and 121 rock 700 people. The mine, in operation since 2010, is expected samples. Results will be used to develop target areas to produce 60,000 ounces (oz) of gold in 2019 before reaching for future drilling. the end of the mine life in the middle of the year. The company’s Amaruq gold project, northwest of Meadowbank, received The Kahuna Diamonds project near its Type A water licence in July 2018. This licence allows has been explored by Dunnedin Ventures Inc. since 2014. Agnico Eagle to begin mining operations at Amaruq, starting Dunnedin spun out Solstice Gold Corporation in 2017 to with the Whale Tail deposit in mid-2019. The company pursue the gold potential of the property. Solstice operated expects to produce 190,000 oz of gold from Amaruq in 2019, its first field program at Kahuna Gold in 2018, with an with the ore being processed at the Meadowbank mill facilities. extensive program including prospecting, rock and till A total of over 29,000 metres of drilling over 90 drill holes sampling, and rotary air blast drilling. The company was completed in the 2018 field season, along with the also carried out a ground magnetic survey covering collec­tion of 900 till samples and 400 line-km of ground 1,675 line-km. Gold mineralization was found in samples geophysical surveying. from the Qaiqtuq target, which Solstice plans to focus on in future field programs. Agnico Eagle also owns the Meliadine advanced gold project 18 km north of . Construction on ore processing facilities at the site is ahead of schedule, and OTHER GEOLOGICAL PROGRAMS AND STUDIES ore production has been moved up to begin in mid-2019. In 2018 the company completed a bypass road from Nunavut Prospectors Program and Prospector Rankin Inlet, allowing transportation of sealifted construction Development materials and equipment to the mine site. The Meliadine mine Since 2001, the Economic Development and Transportation is expected to produce up to 405,000 oz of gold per year (EDT) department of the Government of Nunavut has offered over a planned mine life of 14 years. a week-long Introduction to Prospecting course to residents of Nunavut’s 25 communities. More than twelve hundred The Greyhound precious and base metals project is located Nunavummiut are graduates of 114 course deliveries. 41 km north of Baker Lake along the road linking that community This long-running course introduces participants to basic to the Meadowbank gold mine. Agnico Eagle has a 51 per cent prospecting skills, rock and mineral identification, and the interest in the property, and Aura Silver Resources Inc. holds mining industry. Course graduates may qualify for financial the remaining 49 per cent. In December 2018 Aura announced and technical assistance through the Nunavut Prospectors that its summer field program including prospecting, a Program. This program has provided grant-contributed geophysical survey, and, detailed till sampling had been assistance to 174 resident prospectors in 24 communities completed on the South Aura Lake and Northwest Fold in all three regions since its inception in 2000. target areas, as well as two drill holes on the Northwest Fold target. The company plans further exploration in the In 2018, the course was offered to seven communities in 2019 season. Nunavut, including , Naujaat, and Whale Cove in the Kivalliq region, with 43 persons receiving certificates. The Northquest Ltd., a subsidiary of Nordgold SE, is the owner 2018 Nunavut Prospecting Program assisted four prospectors of the Pistol Bay project situated 35 km northwest of Whale with their exploration for minerals in the vicinity of Cove. The company followed up on its 2017 exploration three communities. The delivery of the IPC and support program with a similar campaign in 2018 that included of local prospectors is expected to continue in 2019. mapping, prospecting, and till sampling, with a focus on the eastern half of the Pistol Bay property. The company also began a major relogging program on historic drill core, in order to develop an updated model of the Vickers deposit. KIVALLIQ REGION

Tehery Lake- bedrock mapping Drilling – the operation of extracting a vertical sample The third and final field season of the Tehery Bay-Wager of bedrock or other surface material such as glacial till Lake project was completed in 2017, covering the area or clay in order to examine the occurrence of rock types between Chesterfield Inlet and Wager Bay as part and understand the geological structure. Diamond drilling of the Geo-Mapping for Energy and Minerals (GEM 2) produces a cylindrical core of rock, while reverse circulation program. This detailed mapping project has upgraded drilling produces rock chips. and modernized the geoscience information in the Tehery Exploration – the process of searching for mineral deposits. Lake-Wager Bay area. No field work was done in 2018, but research continues on data collected during the program, Geophysical survey – the collection of information looking at the age of formation of the Wager shear zone. associated with bedrock using sensors that record electric, magnetic, seismic, or thermal data. The survey can be Western permafrost study conducted from the air, the ground or even underground The Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office (CNGO) continued and is used by mineral exploration companies to detect its study and monitoring of permafrost within a 50 km corridor physical properties of rocks such as magnetism, gravity along the western coast of Hudson Bay, the fourth season or conductivity. of work since the program began in 2014. The study, a Greenstone belt – a linear zone or “belt” of metamorphosed collaboration between CNGO and Natural Resources Canada volcanic rocks that often host deposits of gold and other scientists, continued in 2018 and included testing the use valuable metals. The characteristic colour comes from several of drones to collect digital elevation data for permafrost different green minerals that make up the volcanic rocks. modeling. The goal of the project is to compile information Greenstone belts can be tens to hundreds of kilometres in on the project area’s aggregate resources such as sand length and are found in multiple places across Nunavut. and gravel, mineral potential, surficial geology, and permafrost data into a combined data set. Kimberlite – a type of igneous rock that sometimes contains diamonds. Kimberlites can be composed of intrusive and/ Community Education and Training or extrusive rock. Kimberlite indicator minerals (KIMs) are EDT works with various stakeholders to coordinate minerals found in glacial or other sediments that suggest the mining-related education and training programs, as nearby presence of a kimberlite. well as supporting partners in community engagement – a naturally-occurring solid substance with a activities. Stakeholders include the GN Department of Mineral defined chemical formula, crystal structure, and distinct Education, Nunavut College, the Government of physical properties, that forms as a result of geologic Canada, regional Inuit associations and industry partners, processes. working together on a number of initiatives to facilitate the participation of Nunavummiut in the mining industry. This Mineralization – the geological process by which a mineral includes the Nunavut Mine Training Fund, which provides is introduced into a rock and forms a mineral deposit. support for the development, coordination and provision of mining training programs for Nunavummiut. EDT Ore – a rock or mineral that contains an economically contributes up to $200,000 per year. For more important metal, that can be mined and processed to information, please contact [email protected]. produce that metal.

Prospecting – the search for outcrops or surface exposures GLOSSARY OF TERMINOLOGY of mineral deposits with economic potential. Prospecting takes place by walking on the land and observing it for Deposit – a natural accumulation of a metal, gemstone evidence of mineral occurrences. Once an occurrence is or other valuable mineral substance, which may be found, further work is necessary to determine if a deposit economically viable but whose characteristics require is present at the location. more detailed study to be classified as a resource. KIVALLIQ REGION

Resource – a published estimate of the amount of naturally Shear – a type of deformation resulting from forces occurring metal, gemstone, or other mineral substance in within the earth that cause parts of a rock mass to stretch, a mineral deposit that could allow for economic extraction compress, or fracture. This deformation can form shear of the material in the future. Classifying a resource within zones, bodies of rock with many parallel fractures that a deposit indicates there is moderate confidence in the can be good hosts for hydrothermal mineral deposits. quantity and quality of ore in that deposit. Specific legal criteria exist to classify a deposit as a resource.

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