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Plans to build Canada’s first Arctic railway take a big step forward

Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. has submitted an environmental impact statement for a plan to build a rail link to the company's Mary River iron ore mine.

By Jim Bell, Nunatsiaq News August 22, 2018
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A plan to nearly triple iron ore production at the Mary River mine on north Baffin by building Canada’s first Arctic railway took a big step forward last week, when Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. submitted an environmental impact statement for the project to the Nunavut Impact Review Board and the Nunavut Water Board.

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