‘An important day for us’: Feds invest $5.1M for N.W.T. mine access road, surveys | CBC News
The government of Canada and the N.W.T. government announced on Monday they plan to spend nearly $3.4 million on preliminary work for a proposed all-season road to a region of the Northwest Territories believed to be rich in minerals.
The Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) is putting about $2.7 million toward the development of the Slave Geological Province Access Corridor project, while the territorial government is investing $678,000, according to a government news release.
Those investments are among the $5.1 million in government money that was announced on Monday for two projects related to resource development in the Northwest Territories.
The Slave Geological Province is an area in eastern N.W.T. where the territory’s three operating diamond mines are located.