Port Radium, Northwest Territories

•  Yellowknife

  Yellowknife is the capital of the Northwest Territories (NWT), Canada. It is located on the north shore of Great Slave Lake, approximately 400 km (250 mi) south of the Arctic Circle, on the west side of Yellowknife Bay near the outlet of the Yellowknife River. Yellowknife and its surrounding water bodies were named after the local Yellowknives Dene First Nation, who made tools from regional copper deposits. The current population is ethnically mixed.

  

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•  Rayrock Mine

  The Rayrock Mine was a uranium producing venture in the Northwest Territories, Canada. It is located on the south side of Maryleer Lake and the north shore of Fault Lake, 169 kilometers northwest of Yellowknife and 74 kilometres northwest of Rae. Radioactive deposits were originally staked in 1948 and then restaked in 1950. American Yellowknife Mines Limited explored the site with detailed Geiger surveys and extensive trenching in the early 1950s.

  

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•  Discovery Mine

  The Discovery Mine was a gold mine 81 kilometers northeast (approx bearing of 15 degrees) of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories that operated between 1950 and 1969. Gold was discovered here by Alfred Giauque in 1944. A complete townsite, on Giauque Lake, was established by the company to house workers and their families. The mine produced one million troy ounces (31,000 kg) of gold from one million tons of ore. The abandoned townsite, not accessible by road, was demolished in 2005.

  

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•  Pine Point, Northwest Territories

  Pine Point was the townsite built at the Pine Point Mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada, which was an open-pit lead and zinc mine. The first buildings were erected in 1952 during the original exploration and development campaign, and even before that a number of log cabins had been built in the late 1920s. The modern town was surveyed in 1962 and became operational by 1963. The town was a joint-venture between the Canadian Government and mine owner's Cominco.

  

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•  List of ghost towns in the Northwest Territories

  The following is a list of known abandoned communities in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Many of these were "one-resource" towns and were abandoned following the depletion of the resources (usually minerals).

  

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•  Tungsten, Northwest Territories

  The townsite of Tungsten is located at Cantung Mine in the Northwest Territories. It is accessible from Watson Lake, Yukon. Tungsten was built in 1961 and the tungsten mine went into operation in 1962 as a large open pit mine high in the Mackenzie Mountains. It originally consisted of several small bungalow houses. Total population of Cantung during the 1960s was approximately 120 persons, including about 27 families. In 1968 families were housed in 28 units (single and duplex housing).

  

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•  Fort Confidence, Northwest Territories

  Fort Confidence, located at the mouth of the Dease River on the eastern tip of the Dease Arm of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, was a Hudson's Bay Company post built in 1837 by Peter Warren Dease and Thomas Simpson during exploration of the Great Bear Lake and Coppermine River area, serving as a quarters for two winters. The structure was a log building, and burned down a short time later. In 1848, the post was rebuilt and used by Sir John Richardson and Dr.

  

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•  Fort Reliance, Northwest Territories

  Fort Reliance is located on the east arm of Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. It was originally built in 1833 by George Back during the Arctic Land Expedition to the Arctic Ocean via the Back River. The expedition, partly scientific and partly searching for the missing John Ross, used Fort Reliance as a winter camp. Back's fort was made up of a main house with several smaller ones that were constructed from logs. The houses had stone and clay chimneys for heating.

  

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•  Old Fort Providence, Northwest Territories

  Old Fort Providence, located near the mouth of Yellowknife Bay, Northwest Territories, Canada, was one of the first fur trading outposts on Great Slave Lake. It was established in 1786 by Peter Pond of the North West Company and later (1789) operated by Sir Alexander Mackenzie. Research has suggested that the post was used primarily as a supply centre for other, more northern trading posts, and that very little actual trading took place here.

  

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•  Deline, Northwest Territories

  The Charter Community of Délįne is located in the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada on the western shore of Great Bear Lake and is 544 km (338 mi) northwest of Yellowknife. The population as of the 2006 Census was 525, mainly Sahtu Dene people speaking North Slavey. Délįne means "where the waters flow", a reference to the headwaters of the Great Bear River, Sahtúdé.

  

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•  Parties in the European Council between January and April 2004

  Prior to 1 May 2004 the European Union had fifteen members. On that date ten new member states were admitted. This article describes the party affiliations of the leaders of each member-state represented in the European Council from the beginning of 2004 until the 1 May. The list below gives the political party that each head of government, or head of state, belonged to at the national level, as well as the European political alliance to which that national party belonged.

  

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•  Población de Campos

  Población de Campos is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census, the municipality has a population of 179 inhabitants.

  

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•  Arlebosc

  Arlebosc is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France.

  

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•  The Lost Train of Thought

  

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