Top NWT Mineral Projects
Overview
Unbeatable Mineral Potential
The Northwest Territories hosts nearly 1.3 million square kilometres of largely untouched land — a wide-open frontier for mineral exploration.
Diamonds and gold are the territory’s signature, but there are dozens of proven, indicated, and inferred deposits encompassing base metals, precious metals, and the rare earths and specialized minerals powering the clean economy of the future.
FACTS
- The Northwest Territories is the third-largest global producer of diamonds.
- The underexplored Slave Geological Province — already home to three operating diamond mines — is expected to hold similar potential to the legendary Abitibi Belt in northern Quebec and Ontario.
- The territory has confirmed showings and resources for Lithium, Cobalt, and Nickel — anchor minerals for the emerging battery boom.
- The Northwest Territories holds more than 12% of world Bismuth reserves.
Top NWT Exploration Projects
Gold Terra (TSXV: YGT)
Gold Terra’s Yellowknife City Gold project encompasses 800 sq. km of contiguous land immediately north, south and east of the City of Yellowknife, NWT. This junior gold exploration company has assembled a highly prospective district scale land position close to vital infrastructure, including all-season roads, air transportation, service providers, hydro-electric power and skilled tradespeople.
Unlocking Our Potential: GoldTerra from GNWT ITI on Vimeo.
https://www.goldterracorp.com/projects/yellowknife-city-gold/overview/
Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK)
Nighthawk Gold Corp is a Canadian-based gold exploration company with 100% ownership of a district-scale land position within the Indin Lake Greenstone Belt, located approximately 200 km North of Yellowknife, NWT.
Unlocking Our Potential: Nighthawk Gold from GNWT ITI on Vimeo.
https://www.nighthawkgold.com/indin-lake-gold-property
NorZinc (TSX: NZC)
NorZinc’s Prairie Creek Mine is Canada’s next high-grade silver, zinc and lead mine. The mine is located within the NWT’s Nahanni National Park Reserve.
Unlocking Our Potential: NorZinc from GNWT ITI on Vimeo.
https://norzinc.com/operations/prairie-creek/
Osisko Metals (TSXV: OM)
Osisko Metals has high exploration potential for mineral resource expansion at its high-grade zinc-lead Pine Point Mining Camp (PPMC) in the NWT. The PPMC is located on the south shore of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, near infrastructure and paved highway access and with 100 kilometres of viable haulage roads already in place.
Unlocking Our Potential: Osisko from GNWT ITI on Vimeo.
Fortune Minerals (TSX: FT)
Fortune Mineral’s NICO project is a development stage mining company and past producer advancing the vertically integrated NICO cobalt-gold-bismuth-copper project in Northwest Territories.
Unlocking Our Potential: Fortune Minerals from GNWT ITI on Vimeo.