Canada’s Critical Minerals Expertise Is Building the Future Digital Economy

For decades, gemstones underpinned the economy of Canada's Northwest Territories—one of the largest producers of diamonds globally. Now, in a world scrambling to source the components required by communications, energy, health and defense technologies, the region is translating this mining expertise and resource wealth to supply the critical minerals at the heart of the modern global economy.

A Region at a Crossroads

With borreal forest to the south and Arctic tundra to the north, the Northwest Territories covers an area larger than France and Spain combined. Indigenous peoples have lived there for time immemorial, with 33 communities across the region.

Today, the Northwest Territories is home to approximately 45,000 people, with around half the population living in the capital, Yellowknife—surrounded by mineral-rich terrain that includes gold, silver, tungsten, copper and diamonds.

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