Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the wildfires certainly this season did have an impact on the industry.
With respect to Pine Point, Mr. Speaker, I imagine, quite fortunately, they're -- I understand their property was not affected by the wildfires notwithstanding how close they may have come. But one of -- there was one gold property actually much closer towards Yellowknife that did see some damage to some of their properties. But other than that, those are the only damaged properties. The impacts really were more in terms of the timing. There were some slowdowns of -- some of the operating mines were loaning out their equipment and their staff. Some of the exploration projects were loaning out -- and perhaps loaning is not the right word but giving access to their helicopters. So work that they would have otherwise planned for the summer season did see some delays. That said, Mr. Speaker, I'm happy to say that Pine Point folks are back on the site. The lithium folks here are back on their sites. They were evacuated. And at this point -- and we also didn't miss the September 11th valuation date for diamonds, which is a pretty significant event here in the fall and which would have had pretty significant timing issues. So things are now back up and running.
My last comment on -- in terms of the wildfire impacts, $500,000, I understand, was provide to the United Way by the operating diamond mines. So quite a lot happened, but a lot of it actually ultimately is good news. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.