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Remote territory offers mineral bonanza

Government, industry focuses on unlocking secrets of ancient rocks as modern mining industry finds firm footing in Arctic North

No discussion of opening Canada's Far North to mineral resource development could get far without the focus turning to Nunavut, the nation's newest and least-explored territory.

At one-fifth the size of Canada, Nunavut contains 1,994,000 million square kilometers, or 770,000 square miles, (nearly three times the size of Texas).

Much of the territory is underlain by Archean-aged rocks similar to th...

 

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