News and Events
2025 January
*The Northwest Territories Mineral Exploration Overview Summary captures the main exploration project activities in the Northwest Territories during the 2024 calendar year. Please note that the summary was compiled in early January 2025, and some projects without recent or announced activity may not have been included. The summary was prepared and dispersed at the 2025 AME Roundup in Vancouver, British Columbia, and will not contain information released afterwards.
A full summary of the Northwest Territories' exploration activities is compiled annually in the annular...
2024 December
What are StoryMaps? StoryMaps are useful interactive web maps that combine maps, text, photos, videos, and other media to tell a story.
The Aurora Research Institute and the Northwest Territories Geological Survey welcome you to explore the importance of permafrost and how features such as thaw slumps vary in the Western Arctic of the Northwest Territories in these StoryMaps.
Contact Alice Wilson, Permafrost Scientist for more information.
2023 November
*This Exploration Overview Update summarises the main exploration projects active in the Northwest Territories during the 2024 calendar year. Please note that projects without a field competent in this time frame may not have been included, and some smaller projects with limited activity were omitted due to time constraints. This update was prepared and presented at the 2024 Yellowknife Geoscience Forum in late November 2024 and will not contain information released afterwards. A full summary of the Northwest Territories' exploration activities is compiled annually in the...
Coinciding with the Geological Association of Canada’s annual scientific meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories Geological Survey (NTGS) is pleased to announce the recent publication of a major report and bedrock geology map for the south-central Wopmay Orogen and a bedrock geology compilation of the Wopmay Orogen and adjacent Coppermine Homocline.
Led by NTGS geologist Valerie Jackson (now retired), the South Wopmay Bedrock Mapping Project was a major field-based project that combined a systematic bedrock mapping program with thematic studies, verification of key field...
The 2021 Northwest Territories Mineral Exploration Overview, summarizing exploration and mining activities across the territory last year, is now available. This publication is produced annually by the Northwest Territories Geological Survey (NTGS) and this year was authored by:
Merilie Reynolds, Mineral Deposits Geologist, NTGS
Gideon Lambiv Dzemua, Industrial Minerals Geologist, NTGS
Barrett Elliott, Diamond Geologist, NTGS
Stephane Poitras, Senior Advisor, Geology and Resource Royalty Policy, Diamonds, Royalties and Financial Analysis Division
Landen Powell, Outreach Geologist,...
YELLOWKNIFE (December 9, 2021)
This fall, the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) partnered with the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) to provide additional incentive funding for advanced mineral exploration projects in the Northwest Territories (NWT).
In August 2021, CanNor confirmed new funding of $500,000 to support a second winter call for Mining Incentive Program (MIP) applications in 2021-22. This increased the total program budget for the current fiscal year to $1.5 million.
The winter program provides five awards of $100,000 each for industry...
The Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) has partnered with the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) to provide additional funding support for exploration projects being led by the territory’s mineral resources industry.
CanNor has confirmed new funding of $500,000 to support a second call for Mining Incentive Program (MIP) applications in 2021-22, focusing on winter exploration. This brings the total program budget for the current fiscal year to $1.5 million.
This one-time winter MIP offering will provide a maximum of five awards of $100,000 each that focus on...
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