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Transportation Routes Meadowbank Road er Meliadine Road Belch s Tote Road Island Yellowknife-Contwoyto Winter Road Proposed Port and Road Proposed Izok Corridor Road Proposed Nunavut to Manitoba Road Proposed Steensby Inlet Rail Line 1 NLCA The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement 2NILCA The Nunavik Inuit Land Claims Agreement

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Kivalliq Region Geology and traced back to their source in the bedrock. Ground The Kivalliq region of Nunavut is underlain by the Canadian investigations and airborne geophysical surveys can be used Shield, where some of the oldest rocks in Canada are found. to discover the locations of various metal or diamond deposits. These rocks consist of metamorphosed granitic, sedimentary Prospecting for gold is possible by looking for rocks rich with and volcanic rocks that formed during the Precambrian quartz veins or rusty coloured weathering. period, the time from when the Earth formed (about 4.5 billion years ago) until the beginning of the Paleozoic era (540 million Selected Mining and Exploration Highlights years ago). In the Kivalliq, the granite-intruded sedimentary Agnico Eagle Mines Limited operates the Meadowbank gold rocks and volcanic greenstone belts have experienced several mine, located 80 km north of Baker Lake. The company episodes of folding and faulting. This tectonic activity has employs about 700 people at the mine, of which about 34 enriched some of these rocks with metals such as gold, silver, per cent are Nunavummiut from communities across the nickel, or copper. A large continental basin formed later and Kivalliq. More than 11,000 tonnes of ore per day is processed accumulated thick layers of sandstone on top of the ancient at the mine site which is currently scheduled to produce gold Shield rocks in the western part of the region. Mineralization until 2018. Agnico Eagle additionally holds an Exploration occurred later within these sandstones to form large uranium Agreement with Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated (NTI) deposits, similar to the ones in . for the Amaruq project, located about 50 km north of Meadowbank mine. A $20 million exploration drilling program Much of the bedrock in the region is hidden beneath a thick in 2015 added significantly to the gold resources and cover of clay-rich and sandy sediments left behind as glaciers engineering studies began for a planned all-season disappeared. Traces of harder minerals, including minerals access road from the Meadowbank gold mine. associated with diamonds, can be found in the sediments

Number Project Operator Status BASE METALS 145 ATLAS Anconia Resources Corp. Inactive DIAMONDS

202 Kahuna Dunnedin Ventures Inc. Active

203 Luxx North Arrow Minerals Ltd. Active

206 Nanuq Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. Active

208 Qilalugaq North Arrow Minerals Ltd. Active GOLD 300 Amaruq Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. Active 310 Greyhound Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. Active 316 MeadowBank Mine Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. Active 317 Meliadine Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. Active 318 Pistol Bay Northquest Ltd. Active 346 Kiyuk Northern Empire Resources Corp. Inactive URANIUM 550 Angilak Kivalliq Energy Corp. Active 551-552 Kiggavik (Kiggavik – 551, St. Tropez – 552) AREVA Resoucres Canada Inc. Active 553-557 North Thelon (Judge Sissons – 553, Forum Uranium Corp. Active Kiggavik North – 554, Kiggavik South – 555, Ukaliq (BL-21) – 556, Ukaliq (BL-22) – 557) 597 Aberdeen Cameco Corp. Inactive 598 Baker Basin Kivalliq Energy Corp. Inactive 599 Turqavik Cameco Corp. 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

About 20 km north of , Agnico Eagle is also and assess their artisanal suitability and potential to supply developing the Meliadine gold project and budgeted $64 nearby communities. In the summer of 2015, two small sites million for development costs in 2015. The environmental of new stone were located about 6 km west of Rankin Inlet assessment process for Meliadine concluded in February that require further testing to determine their suitability for 2015 and a project certificate was issued by the Nunavut carving. A rediscovered mineral exploration drill hole 3 km Impact Review Board. Following the construction phase west of Rankin Inlet intersected 23 m of soft stone in drill core of the mine, gold production could begin as early as 2019. which warrants additional investigation as a possible source of carving stone. Through the program, a total of 36 carving About 35 km northwest of Whale Cove, Northquest Ltd. is stone deposits, quarries and sites have been evaluated in the exploring for gold at its Pistol Bay project where a number Kivalliq Region. of mineralized zones have been discovered. In 2015, the company continued its on-site exploration work with about Cumulative Effects Monitoring Program $2.8 million committed towards ground geophysics and a in the Baker Lake Watershed diamond drilling program. Visible gold grains have been Under the Nunavut General Monitoring Plan, a identified in many of the drill core samples, indicating good watershed-based program to monitor the cumulative gold grades in the area. environmental impact effects on the Baker Lake Basin began in 2015. The program is a collaborative initiative between Important kimberlites have been identified near Chesterfield the Water Resources Division at INAC, and the Kivalliq Inuit Inlet, and Repulse Bay over the past several years. Association to develop a watershed management strategy. The Qilalugaq project is located about nine kilometres from A workshop was held in September 2014 and plans for Repulse Bay. In 2015, North Arrow Minerals Inc. completed a 2015-16 include the development of an Inuit traditional diamond valuation on 383 carats of diamonds recovered from knowledge component. The first workshop for this initiative a 1,500 tonne bulk sample that was collected and processed will take place in early 2016. in 2014. Results are encouraging, but more work is required in order to determine if further development of the project is Nunavut Prospectors’ Program & Prospector Training economically feasible. Each year, the Government of Nunavut’s Department of Economic Development and Transportation offers a six-day The Kiggavik uranium project, located west of Baker Lake, Introduction to Prospecting Course in several communities is operated by AREVA Resources Canada Inc. It is the most across Nunavut. Graduates of the course can apply for advanced uranium project in Nunavut with an estimated financial and technical assistance through the Nunavut resource of over 133 million pounds of uranium concentrate. Prospectors’ Program to pursue their own projects or may Hearings on the Final Environmental Impact Statement for find work as field assistants on mineral exploration projects. the project were held in Baker Lake in March, and exploration In 2015, the course was offered in Rankin Inlet and Baker work continued on the property in the summer of 2015. Lake. In the summer of 2016, the Prospecting course will Following the final hearing, NIRB recommended that the be offered in Arviat. project not proceed at this time due to concerns about the environmental baseline information and uncertainty of a start- Geoscience Studies up date for the mining operation. The NIRB recommendation On , west of , the is now with the Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada-Nunavut Geoscience Office and the Government and, at time of writing, a decision had not been announced. of Nunavut have been evaluating the industrial potential of limestone deposits since 2009. The industrial products of The Angilak uranium project operated by Kivalliq Energy high-calcium limestone, namely quicklime and hydrated Corporation is located near Yathkyed Lake, about 230 km lime, have been identified as a commodity used for mining in southwest of Baker Lake. The property has an estimated the Kivalliq region. Zones of commercial grade high-calcium resource of more than 43 million pounds of uranium and limestone have been discovered in six particular units and a also contains a significant amount of valuable metals map outlining the limestone-purity distribution was completed such as silver, copper and molybdenum. In 2015, about as a result of this work. $1 million was spent on exploratory drilling and soil sampling to expand known areas of mineralization at Arviat Training Programs several prospects on the property. A number of training programs have been developed in partnerships between the Hamlet of Arviat, the mining Programs and Studies industry, the Government of Nunavut, and others. Carving Stone Deposit Evaluation Program Skills development programs provide local employment The Nunavut Carving Stone Deposit Evaluation Program is opportunities and reduce the costs for employers associated a territory-wide collaborative project, led by the Government with attracting and transporting skilled workers from other of Nunavut, Department of Economic Development & parts of Canada to work in the region. In 2015 a Work Transportation, to locate and evaluate carving stone deposits Readiness program and Class3/Airbrake training was offered Kivalliq Region in Arviat and the Kivalliq Mine Training Society coordinated the Geophysical Survey – the collection of information associated Red Seal Cook Apprenticeship course. For more information, with bedrock using sensors employed from the air or the please contact (867) 857-2920 or [email protected]. ground. These sensors record electric, gravity, magnetic, seismic, or thermal data. This type of study is used by mineral Glossary Of Terminology exploration companies to detect physical properties of rocks Deposit – a natural concentration of a metal, gemstone such as magnetism, gravity or conductivity. or other mineral substance, which may be economically extracted but whose traits need a more detailed study to Kimberlite – a type of igneous rock that sometimes contains be classified as a resource. diamonds. Kimberlites can be composed of intrusive and extrusive rock. Drilling – the operation of making holes with a drill to sample bedrock or other surface material such as glacial till or clay. Mineralization – the process by which a mineral is Diamond drilling produces a cylindrical core of rock, while introduced into a rock, resulting in a mineral deposit, reverse circulation drilling produces rock chips. Geologists through hydrothermal, igneous, metamorphic, or other study the drill core or rock chip material in order to map geological processes. rock types below the surface and to understand geological structures with the goal of finding mineral deposits. Prospecting – the search for outcrops or surface exposures of mineral occurrences with economic potential. Prospecting Environmental Impact Statement – a document outlining the takes place by walking on the land and observing it for effects of a development project on the environment prepared evidence of mineral occurrences. Once an occurrence is by the proponent of a project and presented to regulators, found, further work is necessary to determine if a deposit decision makers, and the public. is present at the location.

Exploration – the range of activities used to search for Resource – A published estimate of the amount of naturally deposits of useful, economically valuable minerals. occurring metal, gemstone, or other mineral substance in a mineral deposit, which is present in an amount that could Exploration Agreement – Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. issues allow for economic extraction of the material in the future. mineral rights by way of a negotiated mineral exploration Classifying a deposit as a resource indicates that a company agreement that provides the right, if the holder meets the has moderate confidence in the quantity and quality of ore in terms of the agreement, to receive a mineral production that deposit, but that more exploration is needed to consider lease that allows for mining a discovered resource. it a reserve. Mineral deposits must meet specific legal criteria to be classified as resources.

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