Nobody at the moment except for the east side where that circle take out some of the natural shoreline. I saw the name on some article but it would be a shell company would it not. Diamonds on the mainland would be the first targets. The latest rover sent to Mars should be used in the tundra regions in the summer as long as you deploy 100 at a time so they cover a few sq mi. The light hammering is perfect as a seismic signal when the terrain is water and ice. The other rovers are perfect for wandering around a forest where trees are about 1 per 100 sq ft. Their job was to move and sit still for a week at a time while taking 'gravity readings'. Before that PetroCan used vibrators to map the whole north out. The maps were not for public consumption and these methods would be like turning a 2-D map onto full color 3-D and then you decide where to 'permit' so the treasures belong to you alone.
Private citizens might be able to get the maps from the Gov that were made by Russian planes flying low and slow over the north to map it in high detail using a variety of sensors.
Solar drones would be thriving business as every prospector would want a 6-pak. How do you run them from your living room in the summer and winter you would need your own chopper/ultra light just to find them. Solar powered long johns so you leave with same number of parts you came with.
'The Bay' will have to wait for the remote subs, might as well get Amazon on it by telling them how much money the people in the north have and no stores in sight.
I'm pretty sure the end of the Atlantic Rift is where Putin sent that floating nuclear power plant and any chips laying around are 99.99% diamond and the 'overburden' are boulders of precious gems and metals. What are those islands in The Bay made of, I know the big hole is a few billion years old?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ound-in-northern-canada-idUSTRE48O7JW20080925
A pinkish tract of bedrock on the eastern shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay contains the oldest known rocks on Earth, formed 4.28 billion years ago, not long after the planet was formed, scientists said on Thursday.
The rocks may be remnants of Earth’s primordial crust, which formed on the planet’s surface as it cooled following the birth of the solar system, according to Jonathan O’Neil of McGill University in Montreal.
“Maybe it was the original crust, and before that there was no stable crust on the Earth. That’s a big question,” O’Neil said in a telephone interview.
The expanse in northern Quebec, measuring about 4 square miles (10 square km), is made up of the volcanic rock basalt. To determine the age of the rocks, geochemists used isotopic dating methods analyzing the elements samarium and neodymium.
The scientists, who describe the discovery in the journal Science, said studying these rocks can give clues about what the planet was like early in its history. The solar system, including the Earth, was formed about 4.57 billion years ago. These rocks date from roughly 290 million years later.
http://ftp.geogratis.gc.ca/pub/nrcan_rncan/raster/atlas_6_ed/reference/bilingual/can_relief.pdf
It is a serious amount of land that would be richer than South Africa in terms of 'useful treasure', Getting there is easy, staying alive, not so easy.