page_title: Mary River Mine
section_title: Parallel roadway
hierarchical_section_title: Mary River Mine / Design / Railway route to Steensby Inlet / Parallel roadway
caption_attribution_description: English: road on the northwest side of Mary River
context_page_description: The Mary River Mine is an open pit iron mine operated by the Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation in the Mary River area of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
  It is said to be the world's sixth most northerly mine.
  Paul Waldie, a business reporter for The Globe and Mail, called the project one of the most ambitious in any Arctic region, and said it was expected to "triple the territory's annual gross domestic product growth rate and provide nearly $5-billion in tax revenue and royalties to the territory over the life of the project."
  The original plan was to build a railroad to transport ore to a new port on the south coast of Baffin Island. Environmental critics expressed concern over the impact the railway will have on migrating caribou, and the impact the frequent passages of the big ice-breaking freighters will have on sea mammals. Archaeologist Sylvie LeBlanc has described how the railway line will parallel the longest line of ancient inuksuit yet found over a line 6 km long. Several years were spent undergoing an environmental assessment for the railway plan.
context_section_description: Parallel to the rail line there will be a roadway, 8 to 12 m (26 to 39 ft) wide, capable of carrying trucks weighing up to 100 t (98 long tons; 110 short tons).
  During 2010 and 2011, when two separate firms were bidding to buy out the original Baffinland management team, an alternate shipping proposal was under consideration.
  In this alternate proposal ore would be shipped, by truck. The advantage to this approach would smaller start-up costs, and a shorter period before ore was shipped to market. Disadvantages were higher operating costs, making the price of a ton of ore approximately double that under the rail proposal, and a smaller capacity of ore, 3,000,000 t (3,000,000 long tons; 3,300,000 short tons) per year, as opposed to the 20,000,000 t (20,000,000 long tons; 22,000,000 short tons) per year under the rail proposal.
caption: Road to Mary River
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