Tasu
Tasu is located in British Columbia
Tasu
Tasu
Location of Tasu in British Columbia
Coordinates: 52°45′49″N 132°02′00″W / 52.76361°N 132.03333°W / 52.76361; -132.03333
Country Canada
Province British Columbia

Tasu or Tassoo, also Old Tasu or Old Tasu Townsite, was an iron and copper (w/ precious metal sweeteners) open pit and underground mining operation and townsite located on the south shore of Tasu Sound in west-central Moresby Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands of the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada. It ran from 1918 until the early 1980s,[1] with the townsite growing full size in the early 1960s. The early iron mine was owned and worked by Japanese miners, with the mine finishing operation as Wesfrob Mine,[2] owned by Falconbridge Nickel Mines.

The Phyllis Cormack, a seiner, pulled into Tasu on its 1969 Greenpeace run to the Amchitka nuclear test.

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References

  1. ↑ "Salute to Tasu - RBCM Archives".
  2. ↑ "Wesfrob Mine (Tassoo; Warwick), Tasu (Tasu Sound; Tasoo Harbour; Tasu Harbor; Tassoo Inlet), Moresby Island, Haida Gwaii (Formerly Queen Charlotte Islands), Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada".


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