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Cantung Mine. Cantung Mine is a tungsten producer in the Nahanni area of the Northwest Territories, Canada, located northeast of Watson Lake in the Flat River Valley of the Selwyn Range close to the Yukon border. Tungsten was originally discovered in the area in 1954 by prospectors. [1] Cantung Mine operated from 1962 to 1986, again from 2002 ...
An 80-man bunkhouse was added in 1983. The town and mine were serviced by an all-weather road to Watson Lake and the, still open, Tungsten (Cantung) Airport, with a single runway measuring 4,127 ft × 100 ft (1,258 m × 30 m). [3] In 1979 the estimated population had reached 506, of whom 200 were employees.
The Nahanni Range Road was completed in the early 1960s from Watson Lake, Yukon along the present alignment of the Robert Campbell Highway to Miner Junction (aka Cantung Junction), thence along the Highway 10 route, across the border into the Northwest Territories to the privately owned mining town, Tungsten (for the tungsten mined there), and the Cantung Mine (for Canada Tungsten Mining ...
A. ^ Harry Winston Diamond Mines owns 40% and Diavik Diamond Mines, which is 100% owned by the Rio Tinto, owns 60%. B. ^ Dominion Diamond Corporation owns 88.9% while Charles Fipke and Stewart Blusson each own 10%.
The mining town of Tungsten, site of the Cantung Mine, is in the Mackenzie Mountains. Only two roads lead into the Mackenzie Mountains, both in Yukon: the Nahanni Range Road leading to the townsite of Tungsten and the Canol Road leading to the Macmillan Pass .
Watson Lake is the main centre of the small forestry industry in Yukon and has been a service centre for the mining industry, especially for the Cassiar, a now abandoned asbestos mine in northern British Columbia and the Cantung Mine, a tungsten mine on the Yukon-Northwest Territories border in the Mackenzie Mountains.
Tungsten (Cantung) Airport (IATA: TNS, TC LID: CBX5) serves the Cantung Mine and is located near Tungsten, Northwest Territories, Canada. Prior permission is required to land except in the case of an emergency.
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