Iron Ore mining in Baffin island, Nunavut territory, Canada
Nunavut is the largest in area and the secondleast populous of Canada''s provinces and territories. It is becoming a "commodity extraction frontier", with uranium and iron ore resources. One of the world''s most remote, sparsely settled regions, it has a population of 36,000, mostly Inuit, spread over an area of just over 1,750,000 km2.