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Planned Partial-Community Outage in Rankin Inlet December 21, 2024
Qulliq Energy Corporation (QEC) would like to inform the residents of Rankin Inlet that a planned partial-community power outage on Saturday, December 21, 2024, is required to disconnect equipment from a generator safely. This planned power outage is scheduled from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. It will affect customers near the QEC Powerhouse, Nanuq Lodge, […]
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Iqaluit municipal workers ink new collective agreement – Nunatsiaq News
Nunavut Employees Union Local 06 membership includes water truck operators, firefighters other municipal workers Iqaluit municipal workers are welcoming new safety measures added to their new collective agreement. Nunavut Employees Union Local 06 — which includes the city’s water truck operators, firefighters, paramedics, mechanics, road workers and municipal workers — ratified the four-year deal Dec. […]
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Canada and U.S. Department of Defence invest $22M in the Yukon’s Mactung mine – CBC
Dec 17, 2024 Fireweed Metals will get $35M for roads, electrical infrastructure and feasibility studies The U.S. military’s missiles, bombs and bullets could one day contain Yukon tungsten. Canada and the U.S. have announced they are investing in pre-development activities at Mactung mine. The project straddles the border between the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, […]
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NWT Mineral Exploration expenditures drop, Nunavut slightly up
Yellowknife, NT (December 16, 2024) The latest Federal statistics from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) project 2024 exploration and deposit appraisal spending to significant decrease in the NWT, with slight increase in Nunavut and decrease in Yukon. NRCan’s Mineral Exploration and Development, Data Tables released this month provide the following revised 2023 and 2024 exploration expenditures: […]
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Fireweed Metals Corp. awarded up to C$35.4 M in joint US-Canadian government funding to advance Mactung and essential Infrastructure to unlock the critical minerals district at Macmillan Pass, Yukon Territory
Vancouver, British Columbia: FIREWEED METALS CORP. (“Fireweed” or the “Company”) (TSXV: FWZ; OTCQX: FWEDF) is pleased to announce it has been awarded US$15.8 M (~C$22.5 M) from the U.S. Department of Defense and up to C$12.9 M from the Government of Canada in support of its critical minerals projects at Macmillan Pass, Yukon Territory. Highlights Fireweed […]
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Businesses donate $30K to YK Salvation Army food bank – Cabin Radio
December 11, 2024 Tony Brushett, executive director of the Yellowknife Salvation Army, says a recent donation will “help several hundred families” this holiday season. De Beers Group and the Gahcho Kué mine donated $30,000 to the organization’s food bank on Tuesday with help from business partners Arctic West Transport, Khione Resources, Acasta Heliflight, Cando Rail, […]
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2024 Mining & Exploration (MAX) Awards Presented
Yellowknife, NT (December 9, 2024) The 2024 Mining and Exploration (MAX) awards were presented to recipients at a banquet on November 28, wrapping up the annual Yellowknife Geoscience Forum. The awards and recipients are below, with additional details in the Backgrounder, appended. (Two awards from 2023 were presented as recipients weren’t available at the time.) […]
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Pond Inlet to refuse cruise visits after Parks Canada takes over cultural centre – Nunatsiaq News
Dec 9, 2024 Federal government signed agreement with territorial government over use of building in May Pond Inlet’s hamlet council has voted not to host cruise ship visits next year after Parks Canada took over a community hub local artisans and staff use to serve tourists. “It felt like we were getting kicked out,” said […]
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Element Six: shaping the future with synthetic diamond solutions
Last month, Element Six, a world-leading synthetic diamond company and part of the De Beers Group, announced an investment in Lightsynq, a new quantum interconnect startup founded by Harvard PhDs and former research leads at the AWS Center for Quantum Networking. This is just one example of how Element Six is shaping the future of […]
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Nickel Creek Announces TSX-V Listing and Voluntary Delisting from TSX and Departure of a Director
OAKVILLE, ON, Dec. 6, 2024 – Nickel Creek Platinum Corp. (TSX: NCP) (“Nickel Creek” or the “Company”) announces that it has received conditional approval to list its common shares on the TSX Venture Exchange (the “TSXV”). In connection with the TSXV listing, the Company will voluntarily delist its common shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange […]
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