What mine is farther north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Ruth Mine or Camlaren Mine?
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Ruth Mine The Ruth Mine was a small gold producer about 65 km (40 miles) east of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It operated briefly during 1942 and then again in 1959, extracting only 550 troy ounces (17 kg) of gold thus far. The old mine is today (2012) significant as one of the last intact abandoned mining properties from the 1940s period in the Northwest Territories, although the site was scheduled to be remediated by the federal government.
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Camlaren Mine The Camlaren Mine was a small gold mine 80 km north-east of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada at Gordon Lake. It consists of a property totaling about 981 hectares. The two claims that make up the property were staked in 1936 by prospectors Don Cameron and the Mclaren brothers and developed with two shafts during 1937-1938. The name "Camlaren" is a portmanteau of Cameron and McLaren. Conditions attributed to World War II halted development at Camlaren in 1939.
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Tirebolu mine The Tirebolu mine is a large mine in the north of Turkey in Giresun Province 517 km north of the capital, Ankara. Tirebolu represents one of the largest copper reserve in Turkey having estimated reserves of 8.6 million tonnes of ore grading 3% copper and 2% zinc. The 8.6 million tonnes of ore contains 260,000 tonnes of copper metal and 172,000 tonnes of zinc metal.
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Jericho Diamond Mine The Jericho Diamond Mine is a dormant diamond mine located in Canada's Nunavut territory. Jericho is Nunavut’s first and only diamond mine. It is located 420 km northeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and is accessible by air all year and by winter road from Yellowknife. The project was mined from 2006 to 2008, and produced 780000 carat of diamonds from 1200000 t of kimberlite mined from the open pit operation. Over $200 million was invested in the development of the Jericho operations including the construction of a 2000 t per day diamond recovery plant, maintenance facility, fuel farm, and offices and accommodation for 225 personnel.
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Camfield Station Camfield Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in the Northern Territory.
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Yellowknifer The Yellowknifer is a newspaper based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and owned by Northern News Services. It was first published on March 22, 1972 by J.W. (Sig) Sigvaldson, who remains the current publisher. Both a Wednesday and a Friday edition are printed weekly, with 2015 circulations of 3,911 and 4,082 respectively. Its mission statement is "having a ball and making a buck".
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Mark Heyck Mark Heyck (born 1976) is the current mayor of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, since 2012.
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CFYK-FM CFYK-FM is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting at 98.9 FM in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. The station broadcasts the programming of the CBC Radio One network and locally produced programs.
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Weledeh Weledeh (or Yellowknife - Weledeh) was a territorial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, Canada.
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Gordon Van Tighem Gordon Van Tighem is a Canadian politician. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he is a graduate of the University of Manitoba. He moved to Yellowknife from Edmonton in 1992 with his family. He is the former mayor of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, and was elected in October 2000, and he was acclaimed in 2003 and again in 2006 and won against two rival candidates in 2009. He did not seek re-election in 2012.
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Verkhnekingashskoye mine The Verkhnekingashskoye mine is a large mine in the north of Russia near Norilsk in the Krasnoyarsk Krai. Verkhnekingashskoye represents one of the largest nickel reserve in Russia having estimated reserves of 484.6 million tonnes of ore grading 0.44% nickel. The 484.6 million tonnes of ore contains 2.16 million tonnes of nickel metal.
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Northern Journal The Northern Journal is a weekly newspaper based out of Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada. As of 2013, the "Northern Journal" provides coverage of events in the Northwest Territories, alongside "NWT News/North". It also covers the Municipality of Wood Buffalo in northeastern Alberta, including Fort Chipewyan, Fort McMurray and the oilsands industry. Up until January 2011, the "Northern Journal" was operated as the "Slave River Journal", until owner Don Jaque made the decision to extend the scope of his publication to include the entirety of the Northwest Territories. The "Northern Journal" had a stated circulation of 4,000, as of June 2013. In addition to resident journalists, "Northern Journal" draws from a number of freelance writers and photographers across the NWT including regular contributors in Yellowknife.
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Pine Point, Northwest Territories Pine Point was a townsite on the south shore of Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada that lay between the towns of Hay River and Fort Resolution. It was built to serve the work force at the Pine Point Mine, an open-pit mine that produced lead and zinc ores. The town reached a peak population of about 2,000 in 1976, but was abandoned and deconstructed soon after the mine closed in 1988.
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Stanrock Mine The Stanrock Mine is an historical uranium mine located approximately 11.5 km northeast of Elliot Lake, Ontario, owned by Denison Mines. The site has been decommissioned and rehabilitated with ongoing monitoring by Denison Environmental Services.
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Yellowknife (film) Yellowknife is a 2002 film by Canadian director Rodrigue Jean, his second long feature after "Full Blast".
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McArthur River zinc mine The McArthur River mine is one of the world's largest zinc, lead and silver mines, situated about 70 kilometres southwest of Borroloola, near the Gulf of Carpentaria in the northeastern Northern Territory, Australia. It is operated by McArthur River Mining (MRM), a subsidiary of the Swiss mining company Xstrata. Although discovered in the 1950s, when it was originally called the HYC or "Here's Your Chance" deposit, it only opened as a mine in 1995. Initially an underground mining operation, the mine has been converted to open-cut.
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Coyote Gold Mine The Coyote Gold Mine is a gold mine located in the remote Tanami Desert of Australia. The mine has leases both in the Central Desert Region of the Northern Territory and the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, but current mining is only carried out in Western Australia, 10 km west of the border.
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Minto Aerodrome Minto Aerodrome (TC LID: CMN4) is a registered aerodrome in Yukon, Canada. It is a 4495 x gravel strip orientated 17/35. It was built by Minto Explorations Ltd. to service their Minto Mine copper and gold mining operation. This aerodrome should not be confused with the derelict strip at Minto Landing, adjacent to the Yukon River approximately 18 km to the east.
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Jagersfontein Mine Jagersfontein Mine is an abandoned open-pit mine in South Africa located close to the town of Jagersfontein and about 110 km south-west of Bloemfontein. Since it was first established in 1870, two of the ten biggest diamonds ever discovered, the Excelsior and the Reitz (now called the Jubilee), were mined from Jagersfontein. The term "Jagers" has since been coined to denote the distinctive faint bluish tint of the gems from this mine. Among geologists, Jagersfontein is known as a kimberlite pipe, and a prime locality for mantle xenoliths, some of which are believed to have come from depths of 300 - .
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Kudz Ze Kayah mine The Kudz Ze Kayah mine is a proposed lead and zinc mine in Canada. The mine is located in north-western Canada in Yukon.
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Mir mine The Mir mine (Russian: Кимберлитовая алмазная трубка «Мир» "Kimberlitovaya Almaznaya Trubka "Mir""; English: kimberlite diamond pipe "Peace"), also called the Mirny mine, is an open pit diamond mine located in Mirny, Sakha Republic, in the Siberian region of eastern Russia. The mine is 525 metres deep (1722.44 feet) (4th in the world) and has a diameter of 1200 m , and is one of the largest excavated holes in the world.
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Telfer Mine The Telfer Mine is a copper and gold mine located at Telfer, in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. It is owned by Newcrest Mining, Australia's largest gold producer.