Mining
Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation is drilling for iron ore in the area. Iron ore was first found in the Mary River area in 1962. The Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation has plans to build a 149 km (93 mi) railroad line connecting the inlet to a mine-site in the Mary River area. According to the Railway Gazette this would be the most northerly railroad line in the world.
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Famous quotes containing the word mining:
“It’s a mining town in lotus land.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining for the metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)