‘Contaminated’: $1-billion Cleanup Underway at Notorious NWT Gold Mine

‘Contaminated’: $1-billion Cleanup Underway at Notorious NWT Gold Mine
Yellowknife is seen in the distance during a site surface tour of the Giant Mine Remediation Project near Yellowknife on Sept. 21, 2022. The Canadian Press/Angela Gzowski
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Just outside this northern capital, on a small hill within eyeshot of its skyline, sit 365 sea cans sealed off behind a high wire fence, the surrounding roads regularly watered to settle dust.

The cans contain remains of an old roaster building from the notorious Giant Mine, its every beam and timber steeped in poison from more than a half-century of separating gold from the arsenic that held it.