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Training the Local Talent

By Gail Jansen, Photos by Bill Braden With high-tech jobs ranging from heavy equipment to mineral processing, today’s miner isn't stereotypical.

Cleaning Up on Cleaning Up

By Nelson Semeniuk Aboriginal firms are cashing in on one of the North’s growth industries: the remediation of old mine sites.

A new day for Nunavut

by Michael Ganley The recently established Nunavut Resources Corporation is gunning for a real share of major development

Can these women resurrect Jericho?

BY LAUREN MCKEON Pam Strand and Julie Lassonde have bought the defunct Jericho diamond mine –

Strong like two companies

By Michael Ganley Aboriginal-owned development corporations are taking their rightful place at the economic table

Staked Out

By Tristin Hopper With only a prospector’s license, some wooden stakes and a pouch of metal tags,

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NWT Aboriginal Business Conference
Yellowknife, NT
September 22-24, 2009
www.denendeh.ca

Airships to the Arctic V
Calgary, AB
October 7-9, 2009
www.airshipstothearctic.com

Strategic Northern Infrastructure Symposium
Yellowknife, NT
October 14-15, 2009
www.northernstrategygroup.com

Aboriginal Consultation for Industry North of 60
Yellowknife, NWT
October 27 – 28, 2009
www.canadianinstitute.com/n60

Geoscience Forum
Yellowknife, NWT
November 17 – 19, 2009
www.miningnorth.com

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