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OVERVIEW 2014

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Kitikmeot Region Geology Kitikmeot mainland. Clues as to where the metallic deposits The Kitikmeot region has some of the oldest rocks in Canada occur can be found by prospecting with ground and airborne which make up the northern part of the Canadian Shield. geophysical surveys, or discovered by their association with These are granitic and volcanic metamorphic rocks that quartz veins or the rusty weathering of sulphide-rich rocks. formed during the Precambrian Eon, the time between when the Earth formed (about 4.5 billion years ago) until the To the north, on Victoria and Prince of Wales Islands, flat beginning of the Cambrian period (540 million years ago). lying or gently tilted sedimentary rocks of the Paleozoic These rocks have been deformed at various times in the platform were deposited over the ancient Shield rocks while past by mountain building events, and in places have been they were submerged below an ancient ocean basin. These enriched with metallic deposits such as gold, silver, copper, sedimentary rock layers preserve numerous marine fossils zinc, nickel or platinum. Deeply eroded, the folded and faulted made of shells. The bedrock in the region is often hidden rocks are exposed today across the present landscape of the beneath a cover of much younger clay, sand, and gravel

Number Project Operator Status

BASE METALS

100 Kaizen Discovery Inc. Active 101, 102 Hackett River, Wishbone Glencore Xstrata Plc Active 103, 104 Izok Corridor MMG Limited Active (High Lake – 103, Izok Lake – 104) 129 Hood MMG Limited Inactive DIAMONDS

187 Amaruk Adamera Minerals Corp. Inactive

188 Hammer Stornoway Diamond Corporation Inactive 189 Jericho Mine Shear Diamonds Ltd. Inactive GOLD 220, 221 Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Active (George Lake – 220, Goose Lake – 221) 222 – 226 Committee Bay (Anuri-Raven – 222, North Country Gold Corp. Active Four Hills-Cop – 223, Inuk – 224, Three Bluffs – 225, West Plains – 226) 227 WPC Resources Inc. Active 228 – 231 Hope Bay (Boston – 228, Chigago – 229, TMAC Resources Inc. Active Doris – 230, Madrid – 231) 232 Itchen Lake Transition Metals Corp. Active 233 Ulu Mandalay Resources Corp. Active 234 Wishbone Gold Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. Active 246 Amaruk Gold Adamera Minerals Corp. Inactive 247 Elu Belt TMAC Resources Inc. Inactive 248 Mandalay Resources Corp. Inactive 249 Oro North Arrow Minerals Inc. 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. Kitikmeot Region deposited by glaciers. This material is formed by the grinding near the border with the , has historically down of bedrock by the action of glaciers and was left behind been known for high grade copper occurrences. Over the last as the ice disappeared. In glacial deposits, fragments of two field seasons, geologists have conducted prospecting and harder minerals are found, including diamonds, which in sampling programs, collecting numerous grab samples to test some cases can be traced to their place of origin. for copper mineralization. Kaizen released encouraging results in late 2014 and has announced plans to continue exploration Selected Mining and Exploration Highlights work in 2015. Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. owns the Back River gold project southwest of . In 2014, Sabina released an updated Glencore Xstrata plc controls the Hackett River silver-zinc resource estimate for the Back River deposits, indicating that project. Located approximately 70 km south of . there was more gold present than what they had estimated in The property hosts three silver-zinc deposits with a potential of 2013. The company submitted a Draft Environmental Impact 80 million tonnes of ore. MMG Limited owns the Izok Corridor Statement (DEIS) to NIRB in January of 2014, and public project, which has two copper-zinc deposits, High Lake and technical meetings were held mid-November in Cambridge Izok Lake, located 185 km and 250 km south of Kugluktuk, Bay. Sabina is proposing a mine plan that includes both open respectively. MMG completed three Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit pits and, in later years, an underground mining operation studies on terrestrial and marine environments in the project to produce up to 300,000 ounces of gold annually. Sabina area in 2014. They also held community meetings and open commenced infrastructure studies and conducted detailed house information sessions in and Kugluktuk drilling this year to determine the long-term economic to provide updates on the project. potential of the project. Sabina is expected to submit a Final Environmental Impact Statement in 2015 which will trigger Programs and Studies another round of NIRB hearings open to the public. Carving Stone Deposit Evaluation The Nunavut Carving Stone Deposit Evaluation Program TMAC Resources Inc. continued exploration this year at is an ongoing territory-wide collaborative project, led by its Hope Bay gold project. Located southwest of Cambridge the Government of Nunavut, Department of Economic Bay, the project covers most of the 80 km-long Hope Bay Development and Transportation. The aim of the project greenstone belt and includes three major prospective is to locate and evaluate carving stone deposits, to assess areas for gold, called Doris, Madrid, and Boston. In 2014, their suitability for artisans, and to assess the potential to nearly 70,000 m of drilling in 152 drill holes was completed supply nearby communities. In 2013, field visits were made during the exploration program, discovering an estimated to sites identified during 2012 consultations with carvers in additional 600,000 ounces of gold across the property. five Kitikmeot communities, Cambridge Bay, Gjoa Haven, They also completed infrastructure studies and commenced Kugluktuk, Kugaaruk, and . In total, sixteen carving environmental monitoring. TMAC has announced intentions stone deposits were identified in the Kitikmeot, including to advance the Madrid and Boston deposits through the three large deposits and thirteen smaller ones. Although regulatory process, as well as to seek approval for amendments Taloyoak has no viable carving stone sources nearby, local to Doris North’s existing project certificate, submitted to carvers access the Murchison River Quarry, which is also NIRB in 2014. used by Gjoa Haven and Kugaaruk.

The Itchen Lake gold project is being explored under a Nunavut Prospectors’ Program & Prospector Training strategic alliance with Transition Metals Corp. and Nunavut The Government of Nunavut’s Economic Development and Resources Corp. Following a 2013 airborne geophysical survey Transportation department held prospector training courses and field mapping, Transition was able to identify seventeen in Gjoa Haven and Cambridge Bay in 2014. These courses exploration targets for a future drilling program. In 2014, introduce participants to basic prospecting skills and provide Transition acquired a further 433 square kilometres of land an introduction to geological concepts. Fourteen participants tenure in the region, in addition to the Itchen Lake property. completed the program at Gjoa Haven and sixteen at Spread over three separate IOL parcels, the land covers Cambridge Bay. Graduates of the course may qualify for prospective areas for both gold and base metal mineralization. financial and technical assistance through the Nunavut This increases the total area to be explored under the strategic Prospectors’ Program to pursue their own projects, and alliance to 1,284 square kilometres. some find opportunities to work as field assistants on mineral exploration projects. Upcoming courses for 2015 Coppermine River is a new base metal exploration project will be held in Kugluktuk and Kugaaruk. controlled by newly formed exploration company Kaizen Discovery Inc. The area, located southwest of Kugluktuk Kitikmeot Region

Glossary of Terminology Geophysical survey – the collection of information associated Base metal – a general term applied to metals that corrode with subsurface mineral deposit features, using sensors. or oxidize easily, such as iron, lead, copper, or zinc. There are a variety of geophysical survey methods that can be employed from the air or on the ground. Deposit – a natural accumulation of a metal, gemstone or other valuable mineral substance, which may be economically Grab sample – a rock sample, collected by hand, that may viable but whose characteristics require more detailed study. contain a mineral of economic interest; it is analysed to determine if valuable minerals or metals are contained Environmental Impact Statement – a document outlining in the rock. the effects of a development project on the environment, prepared by the proponent of a project and presented to Greenstone belt – a near belt of rocks, dominated by regulators, decision makers, and the public. volcanic and sedimentary rocks, that has been intruded by granites. The volcanic rocks are typically greenish due Exploration – the process of searching for mineral deposits. to their mineral composition.

Exploratory drilling – the drilling of boreholes from the surface Prospecting – the search for outcrops or surface exposure or from underground workings to locate mineral deposits or oil of mineral deposits with economic potential. and gas reserves and to understand geological structures. Resource – a concentration of a naturally occurring metal, Geochemical survey – the chemical analysis, done in a gemstone, or other mineral substance, which is present laboratory, of soil, rock, or water samples that have been in the Earth’s crust in an amount that makes economic taken from an area, to discover if metals, petroleum, extraction of the material possible, either in the present or gemstones are present, by looking for abnormal or in the future. concentrations of chemical elements in the samples. Also commonly referred to as geochemical exploration.

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