Missing men found

IQALUIT — Two mine workers who went missing in a bli ard last week were found safe with only minor injuries.

Kevin White and Jim Graham disappeared March 19 south of Kugluktuk.

Search-and-rescue members from the community found the men near the Coppermine River March 22. One of the men, White, was suffering from minor frostbite to his hands and toes.

The men, employees of Meridian Geoscience, had gone missing while travelling by snowmobile from their camp at McGregor Lake to a drilling site a few kilometres away.

Bli ard conditions slowed the search for the two men.