Chamber Newsletter: Northern Mining News, April 2016

2 May 2016

In this April 2016 Issue: 

  • Good news on NWT mine lives – our thanks are in order
  • Successful winter road, but warmer winter created higher costs
  • Proposed NWT and NU Roads to Resources
  • Tlicho All-Season Road Environmental Application Submitted
  • Agnico Eagle reports continued strong performance in early 2016
  • Peregrine continues to find diamonds – identifies new high grade
  • Nunavut Board recommends Meadowbank gold mine pit approval
  • Dominion Diamond provides update – lower prices still affecting mine
  • Diamond markets improving, slightly
  • Are other markets returning too?
  • Drones on the fly at Diavik
  • Will Lithium be the next big thing?
  • Summit Air Kitikmeot and TMAC Sign 3-Year Transportation Agreement
  • Huge NWT labour demand projected over the next 15 years
  • Federal Gov’t provides northern training dollars
  • Mining industry takes high ground on carbon price for climate change
  • Mine management changes affect some familiar faces to northerners
  • NU Caribou – NTI gives Nunavut Planning Commission a good perspective
  • Continued low exploration reflected in NWT Mineral tenure map
  • Diamonds are forever: New diamond exploration research training school
  • NWT Regulatory Boards Workshop Presentations available
  • Ekati Diamond Mine newsletter
  • Scotiabank – Commodities Lift Off Unsustainable Lows, But Pace Appears Overheated
  • Calendar of Events
  • Member News Releases this past month
  • Mines & Promising Northwest Territories Mine Projects
  • Mines & Promising Nunavut Mine Projects
  • Project Maps