@martianwyrdlord @dirk_jones48 Bro, this deal was blocked by Canadian government in 2021 based on security concerns and the mine is now owned by a Canadian company Agnico Eagle Mines.

Holy shit. I had no idea about this. The Canadian government is a walking security threat. "In 2020, a Chinese state-owned mining company bought the Hope Bay Mine — a distressed and heavily indebted underground gold mine in Nunavut with significant operational challenges. ... the mine is at tidewater in the only part of the high arctic that reliably has open water every summer, it has a deep water port, an underground mine shaft only a few hundred meters from tidewater, and a fully functional aerodrome and mining camp… the central location on the map below, which shows the mine at an equal distance from almost every large city in America, says it all. And with no roads to reach the location by land, no-one would have had any oversight over what could have gone on there, what ships (or submarines) come and go under cover of supplying the mine, or what is stored out of sight in that shaft. If a hostile actor wanted to establish an easily suppliable location, with plenty of time to build up a secret future military base from which to launch a surprise missile attack on America from a wholly unexpected direction in the event of a war, all legitimized under the cover of “mining activity”, there truly isn’t a better location." Via @JuliusRuechel's SS essay, "Trump's War on Global Socialism (Part 2) — Canada"