Deleted:Port Radium, Northwest Territories
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Great Bear Lake, NWT, Canada
Port Radium, on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, was the site of an Uranium mine.[1][2][3]
The product of the mine was shipped, by water, through Deline, Northwest Territories, at the head of the Great Bear River.[1][3]
The mine was opened in 1930.[3] It was nationalized in 1942. It was closed in 1960.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Townsite of Port Radium in the 1930s". Public Archives of Canada. 1930s. http://www.ccnr.org/port_radium.html. Retrieved 2012-09-06. "Older buildings, made of logs, can be seen in the foreground. The bunkhouse on the left is heated with steam, and has electric lights as well as hot and cold running water. A dog team is pulling a sled on the roadway. The mill and power plant are in the background, along with diesel oil tanks from the Fort Norman Arctic well on the Mackenzie River. Public Archives of Canada -- C-23966"
- ↑ "VEQ - Port Radium , NWT". http://www.nwtandy.rcsigs.ca/stations/radium.htm. Retrieved 2012-09-06.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "1930 Eldorado Mine". http://www.pwnhc.ca/timeline/index_winIFix.asp?forward=http%3A//www.pwnhc.ca/timeline/1925/Uranium_1933.html. Retrieved 2010-10-.
- [
] of the NWT & Y Radio Service site.
- 1930 Eldorado Mine NWT Historical Timeline, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
