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	CanTung Mine Re-Opening in Northwest Territories @ workopolis.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		CanTung Mine Re-Opening in Northwest Territories @ workopolis.com
		All tungsten mines in the Western world were forced to close their doors.
		The opening of the CanTung mine in December is very good news for the Yukon and the North in general, and everybody here is very pleased about it," concludes Walton.
	www.workopolis.com /servlet/News/rprinter/20011005/skill_mine (511 words)

	MiningWatch > CanTung Closes: NWT Mine Reclamation Policy Shown to be Farce
		Tuesday December 9, 2003 01:46 PM On December 5, 2003, North American Tungsten, the owners of the CanTung Mine in the Northwest Territories, announced they were closing the mine immediately, leaving 200 workers out of a job.
		The mine was estimated to have four years of ore reserves and had contracted to supply its tungsten to Swedish and US companies.
		The CanTung Mine was open from 1962 to 1986, and was sold to Aur Resources, then resold to North American Tungsten (NATCL) in 1997.
	www.miningwatch.ca /index.php?/248/CanTung_Closes (1241 words)

	Whitehorse Star Online
		The Cantung mine remains in full swing today after satisfying authorities that the operation is within its licence obligations, says the president of North American Tungsten.
		He also mentioned a circulation system has been installed to capture what he described as a small amount of water that was flowing from the mine and mixing with natural runoff but was not running through the treatment ponds.
		While the level of the number three pond is near its upper limit outlined in the water licence, it is still within the licenced level, he said.
	www.whitehorsestar.com /auth.php?r=43753 (468 words)

	North American Tungsten Corporation Ltd.: Underground Probable Mineral Reserve at Cantung : ArriveNet Press Releases : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Cantung Mine is located in the Northwest Territories approximately 300 km northeast of Watson Lake, Yukon.
		NATC reopened the Cantung mine in September 2005 and the mine has operated continuously since then, and the mill has processed 270,074 tons of ore grading 1.19% WO3 from underground and 63,936 tons of open pit ore grading 0.51% WO3.
		Mine staff are reviewing additional pillars and other smaller bodies of mineralization that are not included in reserves to determine if they can be mined economically.
	press.arrivenet.com /business/article.php/871312.html (1484 words)

	Canada Tungsten - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The CanTung Tungsten deposit was originally discovered in 1954 by Axel Berglund while prospecting for copper.
		CanTung initially operated as an open pit mine between 1962 and 1973, although it was closed temporarily during 1963 due to low tungsten prices.
		At one point, CanTung and nearby MacTung were calculated to contain 15% of the world's supply of Tungsten, one of the world's hardest metals.
	www.canadatungsten.ca /CThistory.htm (214 words)

	Tungsten, Northwest Territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cantung Mine closed in May 1986, and the townsite was closed.
		Although the mine reopened in 2002, the nature of the mine has changed so that there is no longer an operating townsite with families.
		Following an investment by the Kaska Dena Council in the Yukon in December 2004 the mine was reopened in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tungsten,_Northwest_Territories (337 words)

	Winnipeg Sun: - Mine closure 'grim' for town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Mine company president Udo von Doehren said Wednesday the mine had to close down because the two international companies it had a contract with to supply tungsten at a guaranteed floor price terminated the arrangement Tuesday.
		Von Doehren said the mine was being put into a care and maintenance mode with an eye to a quick-startup should there be a resolution to matters that led to the cancellation of the contract.
		The Cantung mine is located on the Yukon-Northwest Territories border, 13 kilometres inside the N.W.T., though the only road access to the mine site is through the Yukon.
	www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/WinnipegSun/Business/2003/12/05/pf-277436.html (469 words)

	Tungsten revival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The CanTung tungsten mine on the NWT side of the Yukon border west of Fort Simpson closed 15 years ago because of depressed prices.
		Mining operations will be contracted to a company that's not yet been picked.
		Mine royalties will be paid to the GNWT, not Deh Cho communities, although the Deh Cho First Nations are negotiating for control of the region's resources.
	www.nnsl.com /frames/oldarchive/archive01-1/may01/may28_01tung.html (536 words)

	CPAWS \| Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society \| The Cantung mine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Because the Cantung mine has operated for so long within the South Nahanni watershed, both as an open pit and underground mine, the potential environmental damage is largely done.
		In 2003, the Auditor General of Canada highlighted the legacy of abandoned mines in northern Canada, and identified a public liability of $550 million from abandoned mines in the North.
		With mining being highly reliant on world metal prices, it is a common occurrence for mines to open and shut, and companies to go bankrupt and walk away from mine projects leaving governments to clean up.
	www.cpaws.org /nahanni/threat/cantung.php (595 words)

	Company Mining Pomona Data Enterprise Warehousing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Echo Bay Mines Limited - The Echo Bay Mines Limited company was organized in 1964 to develop a silver deposit at Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, which became known as the Echo Bay Mine.
		Cantung Mine - Cantung Mine was a tungsten producer in the Northwest Territories, Canada from 1962 to 1986, and during 2002 and 2003.
		It mainly mines anthracite coal in the Coal Region of eastern Pennsylvania.
	www.facetps.com /companyminingpomona.html (519 words)

	Whitehorse Star Online
		Three workers were airlifted from the Cantung mine in the Northwest Territories to Whitehorse General Hospital on Monday following a propane explosion.
		The workers’ compensation board’s inspector of mines and the N.W.T.’s gas inspector have been at Cantung investigating the explosion.
		Cantung is one of the largest producers of tungsten in the Western world.
	www.whitehorsestar.com /auth.php?r=38654 (440 words)

	Cantung - Ghost Town
		Cantung was the town built for the tungsten mine.
		Throughout the 1990s the townsite was largely abandoned but the mining company that owned the property maintained caretakers to keep watch.
		This happened in 2001, but the reactivation of the mine was short lived and the mine was again closed at the end of 2002.
	www.ghosttowns.com /canada/nwt/cantung.html (409 words)

	Nahanni Wilderness Adventures - Summer 2006 Special offer
		The manager of the Cantung Mine, located at the head of the Flat River, spoke of how in the past toxic tailings were pushed into the Flat River where they were washed downstream into the Nahanni River and eventually into the water supply for the community of Nahanni Butte.
		Within the next few years the tungsten ore being mined is expected to run out and conservationists fear that the NWT government will not enforce its own laws that would require North American Tungsten to complete a full clean up of their Cantung mining operation.
		A primary concern is that the mine is located in an area where seismic activity is not uncommon and is extremely close to the epicenter of the NWT's largest earthquake that happened in 1986.
	www.nahanniwild.com /special.php (1454 words)

	Taxpayers could be on the hook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		CanTung (Dec 15/03) - The question of who will pay for clean-up of CanTung mine is flaring up again in light of the mine's recent closure.
		North American Tungsten announced last week that it is again placing the CanTung mine on care and maintenance status due to the loss of a financing deal.
		The mine, which is located near the NWT/Yukon border, employed close to 200 workers but none were from the Deh Cho.
	www.nnsl.com /frames/newspapers/2003-12/dec15_03tax.html (222 words)

	Canadian Arctic Resources Committee - Programmes - Mining and Sustainability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The first commercial mining in the North by Europeans took place in the Yukon, when the Klondike gold rush sparked the creation of a new northern territory and special mining regulations to encourage settlers to locate and live on their mineral claims as means of exercising Canadian sovereignty.
		The only two northern mines with anything closely resembling full security are the BHP Billiton Ekati mine and the Diavik project—all other northern mines have been subsidized through the transfer of environmental liabilities to the public purse.
		The current and future diamond mines of the North are extremely profitable enterprises that will pay off their capital costs within three years and generate profits for the operators in the range of $200-400 million per year per mine.
	carc.org /mining_and_sustainability.php (2996 words)

	MiningWatch > Abandoned Mines
		While definitions vary, abandoned mines are most consistently defined as those mine sites where the mine operator or exploration company has ceased or suspended indefinitely their activities, be that exploration, mining or mine production, without rehabilitating the site.
		Historically, mines became abandoned because there was no legislative mechanism to prevent them from becoming so, and not enough understanding of the physical and environmental hazards involved.
		The abandoned Kam Kotia mine has been labelled the “the worst environmental disaster” in Ontario, but seemingly forgotten in this story was the role both Ottawa and Queen's Park played in the decision to open the mine and then walk away from the resulting mess.
	www.miningwatch.ca /index.php?/Abandoned_Mines&list=articles&art_i=10&art_n=10 (858 words)

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		It was developed by geologists, mining engineers and mining technicians, with the collaboration of workers from the mining and geology industry.
	www.promine.com (454 words)

	Robertson GeoConsultants Inc. (RGC)
		The CanTung mine is located in the Northwest Territories, approximately 300 km north of Watson Lake, Yukon along the Nahanni Range Road.
		The mine produced tungsten from open pit operations between the years 1962 and 1973 and underground operations from 1974 to 1986 when the mine closed due to low tungsten prices.
		The existing mineable reserves are estimated to be approximately 694,000 tonnes at 1.82% WO3.
	www.robertsongeoconsultants.com /projects/cantung.asp (115 words)

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		Mining threats to The Cantung mine has operated on the Flat River, approximately 85 km upstream from the park boundary, on and off since 1962.
		Northern Currents - Spring 2003 - New independent report confirms The mine is located near the Flat and Little Nahanni Rivers, New independent report confirms taxpayers at risk from Cantung Mine on Nahanni tributary CHRS - State of the South Nahanni River Two mines are located within the Nahanni watershed.
		The mine is near the Flat River approximately 85 km upstream from the park
	inbillto8.halchmilner.org (309 words)

	Opportunities North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		CanTung Mine snapped back to life last year, awakened from almost two decades of slumber by a deal to sell its last three years of production.
		North America's only tungsten mine is tucked between the Yukon border and Nahanni National Park, at Tungsten, NWT.
		CanTung Mine and the nearby MacTung deposits contain 15 per cent of the world's supply of the metal.
	www.nnsl.com /ops/tungsten.html (430 words)

	Globeinvestor.com: Miner eyes bigger, costlier Vietnam tungsten mine
		Tiberon's Nui Phao venture, located 80 km (50 miles) northwest of Hanoi, is one of the world's biggest and lowest-cost projects for the metal whose price has tripled this year because of shortages in China, the globe's main supplier.
		But the cost of building the open-pit mine has risen to $230 million from a previous estimate of $211 million because of inflation and the extra equipment needed to get more metal out of the ground.
		The Cantung mine in Canada's Northwest Territories, due to reopen in August, was the western world's biggest tungsten mine before it was idled in 2003.
	www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/ArticleNews/print/ROC/20050712/2005-07-12T185341Z_01_N12554573_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-MINERALS-TIBERON-VIETNAM-COL (583 words)

	the Nahanni Range Road - ExploreNorth
		Following the closure of the mine in 1986, minimal maintenance was done on the road, and much of the information on the Internet today reflects the days when the road was in poor condition and the bridge at the Hyland River was washed out.
		With the mine having reopened in January 2002, the road is again well maintained, and mine crews are taken in by bus.
		Although the town of Tungsten (Cantung) is not accessible to the public and there are no services along the road, there are many informal places to camp along the way as well as the small (10 sites) government campground at Km 84 (Mile 52).
	www.explorenorth.com /library/roads/nahanni_road.html (549 words)

	CPAWS \| Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tailings have been observed as far downstream as 15 km from the mine, approximately 85 km upstream of the park boundary.
		Despite the shortfall in clean up funds, the mining company recently got a new one-year water licence until November 2003 without any increase in the money set aside as security for the final clean-up.
		An appeal from the NWT Supreme Court decision upholding a referral for an environmental assessment is expected to be heard in March or April 2003.
	www.cpaws.org /news/archives/2003/03/new_independent.php (477 words)

	Northwest Territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In fact, its per capita GDP of C$94,953 would rank it first in the world if it were considered as its own country, well ahead of 2nd place Luxembourg (at approximately C$83,000 (nominal GDP)).
		Aboriginal issues in Northwest Territories include the fate of the Dene who, in the 1940s, were employed to carry radioactive uranium ore from the mines on Great Bear Lake.
		Another land claims agreement with the Dogrib nation created a region within NWT called Tli Cho, between Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes, which will give the Dogrib their own legislative bodies, taxes, resource royalties, and other affairs, though NWT will still maintain control over such areas as health and education.
	www.a013.com /wiki/Northwest_Territories (1954 words)

	Status Report - 3.0 Mines Subject to the MMER in 2003
		For the purposes of the MMER, a facility is defined as a stand-alone mine, a stand-alone mill, or a combination of both.
		In some cases, it was observed that several mines use the same tailings facility to treat and discharge their mine/mill effluents.
		Consequently, the number of facilities subject to the MMER does not represent the number of producing metal mines in Canada.
	www.ec.gc.ca /nopp/docs/rpt/waterpollution/mining2003/en/c3.cfm (287 words)

	www.mineweb.net \| co_releases Pacifica Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Pacifica is fully permitted for all exploration activities in the Yukon in 2006 with permitting ongoing for the NWT.
		A permit application for use of an existing access road from the Cantung Mine, NWT to the Selwyn Project, Yukon has been recently grandfathered by the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board (MVLWB).
		This press release may contain forward-looking statements based on assumptions and judgments of management regarding future events or results that may prove to be inaccurate as a result of exploration and other risk factors beyond its control and actual results may differ materially from the expected results.
	www.mineweb.net /co_releases/182911.htm (1039 words)

	Nahanni Range Road \| Northwest Territories Scenic Byways
		This road was built to provide access to the Cantung Mine, deep in the heart of the Mackenzie Mountains.
		The mine workings are located on the largest deposit of scheelite (a high-grade tungsten ore) in the Western Hemisphere.
		The mine closed in 1986 and is unlikely to reopen as long as the current climate of détente continues.
	www.trails.com /tcatalog_trail.asp?TrailID=XFA104-007 (258 words)

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