If there’s scientific evidence backing up claims that barren-ground caribou won’t be impacted by a proposed mine expansion on Baffin Island, the mayor of Clyde River, Nunavut, has yet to see it.

Controversy surrounding dust from the Mary River iron mine on Baffin Island has swirled for several years.

This map shows Baffinland's Mary River Mine on north Baffin Island, as well as the tote road used to haul ore to Milne Inlet, where it is shipped through Eclipse Sound and into Baffin Bay.

Plans to build Baffin Island's massive Mary River iron ore project, a key driver of Canada's northern development, have been scaled back to a much smaller proposal as its owners fall victim to ...

Mayors and hunters of five Nunavut communities "disagree fundamentally" with Baffinland Iron Mines, which alleges that further delays to expanding its Mary River Mine is "prejudice" against the ...

Baffinland Iron Mines’ proposed expansion of its Mary River iron ore operation on the northern tip of Baffin Island, in Canada’s territory of Nunavut, has suffered a major blow after a review ...

Located in the Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut, the Baffin Island-based project is home to vast deposits of iron ore, and has triggered a bidding war between Nunavut Iron Ore and ...

Mary River iron ore mine site on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada, (Image courtesy of Baffinland Iron Mines.) ...

Inuit concerns over a proposed mine expansion on north Baffin Island persist after public hearings on that proposal adjourned last week, even as government institutions now say their concerns are ...

The rejection of the expansion will have an impact on 2 500 people employed by the Mary River mine, which is located on the Baffin Island.

* Baffinland started exploration at Mary River in 2004. * Mary River is located at the northern end of Baffin Island about 160 km south of the hamlet of Pond Inlet, Nunavut.