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	Port Radium, NWT - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port Radium is situated at 66Â°5â² N 118Â°2â² W on the shores of Great Bear Lake, the largest freshwater lake within the boundaries of Canada.
		Port Radium is located near the Arctic Circle, which means that in December the sun does almost not rise and in June it doesnât set for 24 hours.
		Port Radium, as we can now call it, was occupied from 1942-1960 when the Eldorado Mine was a uranium producer, then again between 1964 and 1982 when Echo Bay Mines Limited produced silver from the so-named Echo Bay Mine, and the Eldorado Mine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Radium (653 words)

	Port Radium, NWT
		Port Radium (sometimes called "Fort Radium"), established in 1933 and abandoned in the 1960s, on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, was the site of the Eldorado Uranium mine.
		Port Radium was situated at on the shores of Great Bear Lake, the largest freshwater lake within the boundaries of Canada.
		Radium was then used for the medical treatment of cancer and sold for $10,000 a gram.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Port_Radium,_NWT (487 words)

	Radium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Radium (Ra) is a rare radioactive metal found with naturally occurring URANIUM (about 1 part radium to 3 million parts uranium).
		Most of the world's radium has come from the Shinkolobwe mine, in what is now Zaire (beginning in 1921), and the Port Radium mine near Great Bear Lake in the NWT (beginning in 1933).
		Radium was recovered as a byproduct of uranium at the Port Hope refinery until 1953.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0006647 (286 words)

	Northwest Territories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, in 1925 the boundaries of the NWT were extended all the way to the North Pole on the sector principle, vastly expanding its territory onto the northern ice cap.
		The Commissioner of the NWT is the chief executive and is appointed by the federal Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
		Aboriginal issues in the NWT include the fate of the Dene who, in the 1940s, were employed to carry radioactive uranium ore from the mines on Great Bear Lake.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Northwest_Territories (1284 words)

	nwt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		One of the territories of Arctic Canada, the Northwest Territories ( NWT ; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) has a landmass of 1,171,918 square kilometres and a population of over 42,000.
		In the meantime, Ontario was enlarged northwestward in 1882.
		Aboriginal issues in the NWT include the fate of the Dene Indians who, in the 1940s, were employed to carry radioactive uranium ore from the mines near Deline (then called Port Radium).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /NWT.html (999 words)

	Dene History
		Dan Norris, a Metis from Inuvik is appointed as the Commissioner of the NWT, in September.
		Former NWT Commissioner John Parker is appointed as an advisor to resolve a land claims boundary dispute between the TFN (Tungavik Federation of Nunavut) and the Dene Nation.
		Dene Nation again proposes--as in December and January--that the substantial differences between the Dene Nation and the Government of Canada on the issue of extinguishment be submitted for "arbitration" by the NWT Minister for Justice in the form of a reference to the Supreme Court of the NWT.
	www.denenation.com /denehistory.html (8609 words)

	Impacts of Uranium Mining at Port Radium, NWT, Canada
		Tons of tailings both radium and uranium mine were dumped directly into the lake and used as landfill.
		There was no other industrial presence before this Port Radium mine or any other since their closure to date.
		Port Radium was owned and operated by a crown corporation of Government of Canada.
	www.antenna.nl /wise/uranium/uippra.html (946 words)

	NWT Chamber of Mines
		The NWT Chamber of Mines believes that the mineral industry, and our sister industry, oil and gas, have a key role to play in realizing that vision.
		The port at Nanisivik is used as a transfer point for community resupply in the high arctic.
		Something I want to say very clearly is that our industry and the NWT Chamber of Mines fully supports and encourages the early and fair settlement of land claims.
	www.miningnorth.com /docs/viewRotaryMar16.htm (2461 words)

	Action Plan Addresses Concerns About Former Port Radium Mine - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The CDUT was established in October 1999 to help resolve human health and environmental issues surrounding the former Port Radium Mine.
		The CDUT is comprised of representatives from Déline and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) and is supported by the Port Radium Interdepartmental Committee with members representing INAC, Health Canada, Natural Resources Canada and the Government of the Northwest Territories Health and Social Services.
		The closed Port Radium uranium and silver mine site is located on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /nr/prs/j-a2003/2-02251_e.html (444 words)

	canadian content- consequences of northern uranium mining
		Radium market declines and all radium mines are closed by 1940.
		orkers mined uranium and radium near Deline, NWT at a mine operated from the early 1930s to '60s (originally privately owned, it was not government run until it reopened in the 1940's).
		This was the world's first uranium mine, and since then, according to the NWT Cancer Registry, at least 14 (of 30) workers packing the ore have died of lung, colon, and kidney cancers
	www.canadiancontent.ca /issues/0399uranium.html (1147 words)

	CNP Background Document - Uranium
		The world's first uranium mine was located in Port Radium, Northwest Territories and the first uranium refinery, used to enrich uranium for the allies World War II atom bomb project, was in Port Hope, Ontario.
		At least 100 uranium workers at Port Radium have died from cancer or cancer related lung disease and the rates of cancer among workers at other uranium mines is far higher than the general populace.
		The uranium-related deaths of members of the Dene from Deline, NWT is under investigation by Health Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs and Natural Resources Canada.
	www.cnp.ca /issues/backgrounder-uranium.html (501 words)

	HKKK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		One of the saddest stories in the history of nuclear powerhistory is the uranium mining at Port Radium, situated near the Deline village, NWT, Canada.
		Port Radium, the world's first uranium mine, was a Canadian state-owned company selling the uranium to the US government, which used the stuff to for nuclear testing in Nevada near another indigenous reservation.
		And it was the Port Radium uranium, of which the US atomic bombs were built and dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
	www.hkkk.fi /~tammelin/envicom98/piia2.html (5210 words)

	Port Radium, NWT - Result for Port Radium, NWT - Meaning of Port Radium, NWT - Definition of Port Radium, NWT - ...
		Image:Great_Bear_Lake.png thumbGreat Bear Lake, NWT, Canada '''Port Radium''' is the regional name for a mining area on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada.
		Port Radium is situated at {{coor dm665N1182Wregion:CA}} on the shores of Great Bear Lake, the largest freshwater lake within the boundaries of Canada.
		Between 1950 and 1974, this climatic data was collected at Port Radium, NWT Port Radium : {
	www.mauspfeil.net /Port_Radium,_NWT.html (746 words)

	NWT - Deline // Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		NWT - Deline // Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
		It wasn't until the 1920s when pitchblende was discovered at Port Radium and oil at Norman Wells that the settlement began to take shape.
		Tourism, oil and gas services, local services and arts and crafts provide a wage economy.
	www.assembly.gov.nt.ca /VisitorInfo/NWTMapandHistory/Deline.html (197 words)

	4Reference \|\| Northwest Territories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Mackenzie (mainland NWT* and western Nunavut); Saskatchewan (central Saskatchewan); Ungava (modern Quebec and inland Labrador).
		However, their exploitation has raised environmental concerns, not least the potential havoc that a spill from tailings ponds would cause to unspoiled wilderness areas such as the Nahanni River, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Site.
		Another land claims agreement with the #redirect Tli Cho nation created a region within the 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 the NWT will still maintain control over such areas as health and education.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Northwest_Territories.html (927 words)

	Nuclear Technology ~ A Primer
		The world's first uranium mine was at Port Radium, NWT, on the shore of Great Bear Lake.
		Ottawa knew of the health dangers of uranium and radium as early as 1932, but did not begin to inform workers or compensate their widows until 1973.
		An epidemic of cancer deaths among men of the Sahtu-Dene tribe from Deline, NWT, who carried sacks of radioactive concentrates on their backs for decades, is currently under investigation by authorities.
	www.ccnr.org /nuclear_primer.html (2681 words)

	Action Plan - To Address Concerns Raised By The Community Of Déline About Risks To Human And Environmental Health From ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		This chapter addresses the method by which decisions are made, the resources required for project management and support, and outlines a project management approach that may be adopted by the CDUT for some of the proposed work.
		A workshop was organized by the CDUT in May 2000 to identify the issues to be addressed arising out of the community's concerns regarding the effects of the activities at Port Radium and related sites.
		As a means of initiating education about the concepts involved in the Port Radium issue the CDUT proposes a series of four videos that will encapsulate the main areas of concern regarding the Port Radium site and the citizens of Déline.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /ps/nap/consit/cdut/cdut-ch5_e.html (1614 words)

	Deline Dene Linked to Uranium Deaths?
		Uranium mining at Port Radium, across Great Bear Lake, between 1942 and 1960 exposed workers to the high levels of radiation.
		For $3 a day, Dene workers hauled and ferried burlap sacks at what was the world's first uranium mine, and at least 14 workers have since died of lung, colon and kidney cancers, according to documents obtained through the NWT Cancer Registry.
		But the death rates are comparable to the NWT average, probably due to higher rate of smoking in the Eastern Arctic, says NWT chief medical officer, André Corriveau.
	arcticcircle.uconn.edu /SEEJ/Mining/korstrom.html (491 words)

	Dene Náoweré Kó - Canada's Digital Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		At first, the main interest was in the radium used for medical purposes.
		But when the lethal use of uranium was discovered, the Somba K’e (Port Radium) mine was secretly transferred to the Canadian government.
		The uranium ore from Great Bear Lake was refined at Port Hope, Ontario, and from there went directly to the Manhattan Project to make an atomic bomb.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /sahtuotine/radium.htm (552 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Eldorado: Canada's national uranium company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		But manipulation of the market, the physical challenge of taking men and supplies into Port Radium, NWT, and the difficulties in extracting radium from ore at Port Hope prevented them from realizing that imagined wealth.
		Along the way, the LaBine brothers had become entangled with international radium interests in Belgium, and at a crucial moment the Belgian cut the price to $25,000 per gram.
		Eldorado negotiated with Canada's allies to stretchout deliveries under the expiring contracts, mainting the Canadian industry until markets for the peaceful use of uranium in the generation of electricity could be developed.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0802034144 (560 words)

	Use of Canadian Uranium in the World's First Atomic Bombs
		The uranium deposits on the shores of Great Bear Lake were among the richest in the world; and at Port Hope, Ontario, was located the only uranium refinery in operation in North America.
		This had not been accumulated in shrewd anticipation of the nuclear age; it was merely a by-product of a radium refinery....
		General Groves explored the idea that the efficiency of the refinery at Port Hope might be increased and that the output of ore at Great Bear Lake might be stepped up at the same time.
	www.ccnr.org /uranium_in_bombs.html (4569 words)

	Dehcho Paddlers Association: Canoeist's Guide to the Liard and Mackenzie Rivers
		Maps NWT (MSS) is another source of maps, and these folks, along with Canoe North, can provide experienced advice on the maps you will need.
		Radium was shipped through here until recently when the mines on the Eastern shores closed.
		Abandoned Port Radium on the Eastern lake shore in the Precambrian Shield make for fascinating destinations.
	www.paddlemackenzie.org /mackenzie_canoeists_guide.htm (2861 words)

	NWT and Y History project brabner_d_2
		The only names I remember from the RC Signals station at Port Radium are Bob Morris, who was Sgt/.
		The C.W. traffic at Radium was very much less than at B'lodge.
		They were emphasizing the long term radiation effects it had on the Indians who used to manually carry sacks of ore. Then last year I saw another documentary, and this one showed the complete dismantling of the whole Radium complex.
	nwtandy.rcsigs.ca /persons/brabner_d_2.htm (684 words)

	NWT and Y History project - Port Radium (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		NWT and Y History project - Port Radium
		Originally called Cameron Bay, the name was changed in December 1937.
		It was Handed over to the Department of Transport In March 1960.
	www.nwtandy.rcsigs.ca /stations/radium.htm (98 words)

	Positive Energy: May 2004
		This learning process has not always been academic and benign - there are examples such as Port Radium where a very high cancer rate has been associated with the handling of radium ore. But I would argue that the lessons are being learned.
		There will still be improvements, but the safety record in our nuclear industry can be exemplary, especially when compared with the alternatives such as coal mining and oil extraction.
		These byproducts could not go anywhere, and the ore has been there for a long time, so there is quite a build up associated with the uranium.
	positiveenergy.blogspot.com /2004_05_01_positiveenergy_archive.html (3141 words)

	Northwest Territories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		One of the territories of Arctic Canada, the Northwest Territories ( NWT ; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) has a landmass of 1,171,918 square kilometre s and a population of 37,360 as of the 2001 census.
		South Slavey ; Citizens of the NWT have a right to use any of the above languages:
		Main article: Districts of the Northwest Territories In the meantime, Ontario was enlarged northwestward in 1882.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Northwest_Territories.html (1436 words)

	Contaminants and Remediation Directorate // Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Port Radium mine site is located on a peninsula along the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories, 440 kilometres north of Yellowknife and 265 kilometres east of the Dene community of Déline.
		Echo Bay Mines ceased mining operations at Port Radium in 1982 after covering most tailings and garbage with waste rock, moving all valuable equipment to nearby mining operations and destroying buildings on-site.
		The CDUT created an Action Plan, to describe, scope and recommend studies and activities that, when completed, will provide the information necessary to enable the CDUT to make informed decisions about the long-term management of the Port Radium site and any ongoing community health requirements relating to the mine site.
	nwt-tno.inac-ainc.gc.ca /cd-s_e.htm (2848 words)

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