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Nunavut Carvingstone Program Highlights: First Two Years in Kivalliq & Qikiqtaaluk 2010-2013 NU Carvingstone Deposit Evaluation Program. Thank you to our Sponsors. Large boulders and untouched deposit. The Tidewater Result “Bringing Back New Stone”. Repulse Bay’s Naujaat Deposit.

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  1. Nunavut Carvingstone Program Highlights:First Two Years in Kivalliq & Qikiqtaaluk2010-2013 NU Carvingstone Deposit Evaluation Program

  2. Thank you to our Sponsors

  3. Large boulders and untouched deposit

  4. The Tidewater Result“Bringing Back New Stone”

  5. Repulse Bay’s Naujaat Deposit

  6. Qulliks are the traditional seal-oil burning stone implement used for cooking, heating and light.The modern equivalent requires a generator, kitchen stove, furnace, electrical wiring, lights… and no seals.For centuries to millenium, qulliks were essential to the success of the Inuit culture spanning the Arctic.The advent of modern stone artistry saw Inuit turning to their soft stone exploitation already in place.

  7. The Commodity? of Carvingstone

  8. Standards of Excellence Are: consistency, toughness, holds fine detail, good colour, polishes well, available in large blocksExcellent softer, 2.0 - 2.5 Mohs Scale of HardnessGood medium, 2.5+, lacks somewhat with a standardFair harder, 3.0+, lacks a standard or morePoor still takes a file, variable, small piecesThe carbide hand-file is an experienced carver’s testing tool.Material is most often compared to Kaniqsuqutaq (Korok Inlet) stone which is of excellent quality.Hand-mined, never blasted. Use of explosives will ruin carvingstone.

  9. Size of Carvingstone Deposits

  10. Carvingstone Deposit Size

  11. Upper and Lower Quarries at Korok Inlet

  12. Kangiqsuqutak QullimiActive Upper Quarry at Korok Inlet

  13. Kovic Deposit, 93 miles inland from Repulse BayTakes a file wherever touched, 1 mile long and 150 feet wide

  14. In Nunavut, Soapstone is most often Serpentinite

  15. Serpentinite (Soapstone) is Magnetic

  16. Asbestos is a mineral found in certain rocks.

  17. Alternate Stone

  18. Tatsituya is unique, a marble deposit altered completely to apple-green, non-magnetic serpentine at Aberdeen Bay

  19. The Deeper, The Better

  20. 2010 - 2011 Carvingstone Kivalliq Summary

  21. Kivalliq Carvers and Guides of 2010 - 2011

  22. 2011 Carvingstone Summary for South Baffin Region

  23. South Baffin Carvers and Guides of 2011

  24. 2012 Program of Carvingstone Site Evaluations

  25. 2013 Program of Carvingstone Site Evaluations

  26. Qujannamiq, Mat’na, Koana, Merci and Thank You!

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