An Assessment of How Plant and Mycorrhizal Communities Have Been Affected Along a Mine-Impacted Watershed In The Northwest Territories

• Main Author: MacColl, Kevin
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholars Commons @ Laurier 2017
• Subjects: Ecology; Giant Mine; Botany; Mycorrhizae; Arsenic; Wetland; Integrative Biology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Northwest Territories; The Baker; Yellowknife; Yellowknife River
• Online Access: https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1948; https://scholars.wlu.ca/context/etd/article/3062/viewcontent/Kevin_MacColl_Msc_Thesis.pdf

Giant Mine is an inactive gold mine located nine kilometers north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Giant Mine has been the source of arsenic trioxide for the Baker Creek watershed since it opened over 60 years ago. Although arsenic levels in the creek are above the limits considered to be biol...