Mine has more employees than the population of many Nunavut hamlets
Agnico Eagle’s Meliadine gold mine has approximately 1,500 employees. That’s about half the size of the population of nearby Rankin Inlet and slightly more than Clyde River. But only about 700 people live and work on the site at all times, which is still more than the populations of Grise Fiord, Resolute Bay and Chesterfield Inlet put together.
The mine’s employees live side by side in what they call the “biggest hotel in Nunavut” and their collective efforts produce about one gold brick a day that is roughly the size of a loaf of bread.
As Agnico Eagle nears a milestone — the production of two million ounces of gold — Nunatsiaq News was given a tour of the above-ground part of Meliadine mine on Oct. 2 to learn about the life of people living at a site larger than many Nunavut communities.
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