The Meliadine mine Gold Project is Agnico Eagle’s second major project in the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, following the Meadowbank mine. The construction of all infrastructures is now ongoing till 2019 and the start-up of the mine operations are expected to begin in late 2019.

The Itivia project helps support the Meliadine mine project with the construction of infrastructure in the Rankin Inlet Itivia Harbour area. This project consists of 3 phases: Construction of a laydown area for the transfer of sea cans The construction of fuel tanks in the fuel farm area Construction of a 6 km bypass road [...]

The first phase of the Itivia project is to prepare the laydown area Most equipment and material required for the construction of the mine site will be transported via ships during the summer sea lift. Between July and December, material offloaded from the ships will be transported to the Meliadine site. To ensure a smooth [...]

The second phase of the Itivia Project is the construction of the fuel farm Agnico will construct 2 fuel tanks store 13 million litres of fuel The fuel will then be transported to the mine site. The construction of the Itivia fuel farm area requires drilling and blasting to set the tanks on solid bedrocks

A 6 km bypass road will be built south of the airstrip to Itivia. This will allow traffic from Itivia to bypass the Hamlet in delivering materials and fuel to the Meliadine mine site. For safety reasons, the bypass road will only be open to trucks transporting material and fuel to Meliadine Construction of the [...]

The Itivia Quarry is located on elevated bedrock in the southern portion of the Rankin Inlet Community, view map.

Agnico will need to transport between 20,000 and 40,000 tonnes of material along with 30 million litres of fuel each year from Rankin to the mine site. Having a bypass road will significantly reduce traffic in Rankin Inlet and thus will increase the safety and reduce potential dust generation in town.

Agnico Eagle needs to extract material from the existing Itivia Quarry to build the new laydown area for the transit of the sea cans brought in during the barge season Material from the quarry is also needed to build the 6 km bypass road to allow traffic from Itivia to bypass the Hamlet in delivering [...]

By the end of November 2017

A complete risk assessment was conducted by Agnico Eagle along with NAV Canada on deciding the best location for the tanks. NAV Canada approved the location based on the risk assessment