Alaska port gets 1st funds from Yukon mine to study options for shipping critical minerals
By Dana Hatherly An Alaska port is getting its first swap of money from a Yukon mine to study options
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Placer miners in the Klondike get back to work as Yukon gov’t tackles licence
By Chris MacIntyre A backlog of licence and permit renewals has had some placer miners in the Klondike uncertain whether
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Nunavut: Green light for construction at Hope Bay gold mine
The federal government and senior executives from Agnico Eagle have officially broken ground on the redevelopment of the Hope Bay
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Casino project will be different than Yukon’s failed mines, CEO says
Proposed mine now undergoing largest review ever done by territory’s assessment board The president of the company behind the proposed
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‘A betrayal’: Yukon First Nations call on government to repeal mining amendments
By Marissa Meilleur Territory temporarily extended some placer mining licences while it works through permitting backlog. Yukon First Nations are
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A year after the Eagle mine failure, questions remain about Yukon’s mining future
‘It goes beyond the Yukon in terms of how we judge whether it’s right to mine or not,’ minister says
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Huge log believed to be 50 million years old unearthed at N.W.T. mine
Diavik says it’s talking about what to do with its wood specimens as it approaches closure A log of wood
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Mining companies decry regulatory burden at N.W.T. committee meeting
The executive chair of mining development company NorZinc Limited says the regulatory process for mining and exploration work in the
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Damage at Yukon’s Eagle mine site could be ‘worst-case scenario,’ says local mayor
The mayor of Mayo, Yukon, says a heap leach failure and slide reported Monday at the Eagle gold mine will
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Federal gov’t, Saskatchewan swipe sale of N.W.T. rare earth metals from Chinese buyer
By Rose Danen Vital Metals announced Monday that it’s selling its stockpiled rare earth material to the Saskatchewan Research Council
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Review board rejects Agnico Eagle’s request to change plans for Nunavut mine
By Emma Tranter · CBC News The Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) has rejected a proposal from Agnico Eagle Mines to build a
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Massive spill at N.W.T. diamond mine went unreported for 1 month
A broken pipeline that spilled a massive amount of groundwater at an N.W.T. mine can’t be fixed until extreme weather
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UN experts call on Sweden to halt mining project on Indigenous Sami land
Two United Nations human rights experts urged the Swedish government on Thursday not to issue a license for an iron
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Bolstered by battery boom, British mining company to dig nine new open pits in Russian Arctic
Eurasian Mining Plc teams up with state company Rosgeo for the development of a new far northern ‘global center’ for
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‘Consultation utterly failed’: Na-Cho Nyäk Dun sues Yukon for approving mineral exploration
The Yukon government breached its duty to consult the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun by unilaterally approving a mineral
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