Photo: Agnico-Eagle takes a hit

Here a worker at Agnico-Eagle’s Meadowbank gold mine in Baker Lake, Nunavut, which poured its first gold bar in 2010, watches as gold streams into a mold. On Feb. 15 Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited reported a quarterly net loss of $601.4 million, or a loss of $3.53 per share for the fourth quarter of 2011. Read more about this development on nunatsiaqonline.ca. (FILE PHOTO)