Photo: Baffin staff on the job at Mary River

A group of Baffin-based workers stands near the site of Baffinland Iron Mines’ Mary River mine site about 160 km southwest of Pond Inlet. While the company has made test shipments in the past, on Sept. 8 it transported the mine’s first official load of iron ore to its port site at Milne Inlet and boasted in a recent news release that after years of planning and regulatory hurdles,”we are now truly a mining company.” From left: Judas Shappa of Arctic Bay, Jenny Nakashuk of Iqaluit, Matthew Taqtu of Arctic Bay and Anakudlak Nowdluk of Iqaluit. (PHOTO COURTESY OF BAFFINLAND)