Northwest territory/territories

The lignite deposits of North Dakota and Montana extend into Canada as far as Saskatchewan. Canadian deposits are also located in Alberta, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Ontario, and Manitoba. Production by open-cast mining, ca3.5 x 10 t in 1975, was 10.8 x 10 t in 1989. 

Thompson, J. W., Scotter, G. W., and Ahti, T. 1969. Lichens of the Great Slave Lake Region, Northwest Territories, Canada. The Bryologist 72 137-177. 

Bohn, A. and B.W. Fallis. 1978. Metal concentrations (As, Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn) in shorthorn sculpins, Myoxocephalus scorpius (Linnaeus), and Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus (Linnaeus), from the vicinity of Strathcona Sound, Northwest Territories. Water Res. 12 659-663. 

Gamberg, M. and A.M. Scheuhammer. 1994. Cadmium in caribou and muskoxen from the Canadian Yukon and Northwest Territories. Science of the Total Environment 143 221-234. 

Braune, B.M., R.J. Norstrom, M.P. Wong, B.T. Collins, and J. Lee. 1991. Geographical distribution of metals in livers of polar bears from the Northwest Territories, Canada. Sci. Total Environ. 100 283-299. 

Smoking Hills, Northwest Territories United Kingdom 6300 (from atmospheric releases of combustion of bituminous shales) 2... 

Polar bear, Ursus maritimus-, Northwest Territories, Canada, 1984 liver California sea lion, Zalophus californianus-, recent mothers 0.21-0.54 DW 50... 

Poole, K.G., B.T. Elkin, and R.W. Bethke. 1998. Organochlorine and heavy metal contaminants in wild mink in western Northwest Territories, Canada. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 34 406-413. 

Mink (Mustela vison) collected from the Northwest Territories of Canada between 1991 and 1995 had liver mirex concentrations between 0.08 and 0.39 pg/kg FW. These extremely low mirex concentrations were, nevertheless, higher than liver mirex concentrations in prey species (snowshoe hare, Lepus americanus, 0.08 to 0.13 pg/kg FW northern red-backed vole, Clethrionomys rutilus, 0.32 pg/kg FW), suggesting that mirex biomagnification in mammalian wildlife food chains is possible (Poole et al. 1998). 

Mink, Mustela vison Northwest Territories, Canada 1991-95... 

Heavy mineral and till geochemical signatures of the NICO Co-Au-Bi deposit, Great Bear magmatic zone, Northwest Territories, Canada... 

The NICO deposit is located at the south end of the GBMZ in the Proterozoic Bear Structural Province of the Canadian Shield, about 160 km northwest of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories (Fig. 1). It represents an economically significant source of Co-Au-Bi-Cu-Fe with calculated reserves of 21.8 Mt with 1.08g/t Au, 0.13%Co and 0.16% Bi (Fortune Minerals 2008). Mineralization at NICO consists of a number of mineral showings predominantly hosted in brecciated and altered siltstone and wacke of the 1.88 Ga... 

Fortune Minerals Ltd. 2008. Annual Report. Goad, R.E., Mumin, A.H., Duke, N.A., Neale, K.L., Mulligan, D.L. Camier, W.J. 2000. The NICO and Sue-Dianne Proterozoic, Iron Oxide-hosted, Polymetallic Deposits, Northwest Territories Application of the Olympic Dam Model in Exploration. Exploration and Mining Geology, 9 (2), 123-140. 

Paradis, S., Turner, W.A., Coniglio, M., Wilson, N. Nelson, J.L. 2006. Stable and radiogenic isotopic signatures of mineralized Devonian carbonates of the Northern Rocky Mountains and the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. In Hannigan, P.K. (ed) Potential for carbonate-hosted lead-zinc Mississippi Valley-type mineralization in northern Alberta and southern Northwest Territories Geoscience Contributions,... 

Diavik Diamond Mine (Northwest Territories, Canada). Data from these active mines are compared to similar data from two closed chrysotile mines at Clinton Creek (Yukon, Canada) and Cassiar (British Columbia, Canada) as reported by Wilson et al. (2006, 2009). 

ABSTRACT The Mallik gas hydrate field represents an onshore permafrost-associated gas hydrate accumulation in the Mackenzie Delta on the coast of the Beaufort Sea, Northwest Territories, Canada. This deposit contains a high concentration of natural gas hydrate with an underlying aquifer or free-gas zone at the base of the hydrate stability field. The physical and chemical properties of CH4 and C02 hydrates indicate the possibility of coincident C02 sequestration and CH4 production from the Mallik gas hydrate bearing zones. This study presents a numerical assessment of C02 sequestration and the recovery of CH4 from the gas hydrates at the Mallik site, Mackenzie Delta, Canada. 

Majorowicz Osadetz (2001) reported that the Mallik gas hydrate-bearing deposit in permafrost regions tends to occur at depths of 700 m to 1400 m where the permafrost is 100 m to 900 m thick. The Mallik 2002 Gas Hydrate Production Research Well Program conducted scientifically constrained production tests of the natural gas from the Mallik gas hydrate deposit, which is situated in the Mackenzie Delta on the coast of the Beaufort Sea, Northwest Territories, Canada (Dallimore et al. 2005a Satoh et al. 2005). Gas hydrate production tests demonstrated the potential for possible commercial production. Japan intends to establish commercial production from gas hydrates within the time frame of conventional natural gas production from the Mackenzie Delta (Yonezawa 2003). 

Dallimore, S.R., Collet, T.S., Uchida, T., Weber, M. 2005a. Overview of the science program for the Mallik 2002 Gas Hydrate Production Research Well Program., In Dallimore, S.R. T.S. Collett, T.S. (eds.),Scientific Results from the Mallik 2002 Gas Hydrate Production Research Well Program, Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 585. 

KEYWORDS Resource assessment, Northwest Territories, geochemistry, indicator minerals, land use... 

Fig- 1- Location of the three Proposed Protected areas in the Northwest Territories TT = Ts ude niline Tu eyeta (Ramparts River wetlands), E = Edehzhie (Horn Plateau), and SK = Sambaa K e (Trout Lake). 

Day, S.J.A., Lariviere, J.M.L., McNeil, R.J., Friske, P.WB., Cairns, S.R., McCurdy, M.W., Wilson, R.S. 2007. Regional stream sediment and water geochemical data, Florn Plateau area, Northwest Territories (parts of NTS 85E, 85F, 85K, 85L, 95H, 951 and 95J) including analytical, mineralogical and kimberlite indicator mineral data. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5478. 

Gal, L.P. 2007. Sambaa K e Candidate Protected Area, Non-Renewable Resource Assessment (phase I) - Petroleum. Northwest Territories Geocscience Office, NWT Open File 2007-02. 

Huntley, D., Mills, A., Paulen, R.C. 2008. Surficial deposits, landforms, glacial history, and reconnaissance drift sampling in the Trout Lake map area, Northwest Territories Geological Survey of Canada, Current Research 2008-14, 14 p. 

Northwest Territories Protected Areas Strategy, 2006-2007 Annual Report, 007. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 44p. www.nwtpas.ca... 

Miller, A.R., Stanton, R.A., Cluff, G.R., Male, M.J., 1986. Uranium deposits and prospects of the Baker Lake Basin and subbasins Central District of Keewatin, Northwest Territories. In Evans, E.L. (Ed.) Uranium Deposits of Canada. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Special Volume 33, 263-285. 

Pass (XY) Zn-Pb deposit and Nor Zn-Pb-Ba occurrence, Selwyn basin, Yukon and Northwest Territories, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 845, p. 12. 

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