Mining company BHP is proposing an early-stage exploration program this summer across several vast areas on the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
A Chinese company is buying from and investing in a rare earth project in the N.W.T. which, for years, had been marketed as a way for Canada to reduce its reliance on China for a material that’s crucial in types of low-carbon technology.
Work on the all-season road between Tibbitt Lake and Lockhart Lake will begin in 2024. The road is the first piece of a larger gravel road that will run through the Slave Geological Province where the Ekati, Diavik and Gahcho Kue diamond mines operate.