Port Radium
Vanished settlement · Canada
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 66.085, -118.036
Why it was abandoned
⚒️ Mines & quarries
Detected automatically from the text: Возник в 1932 году как горняцкий посёлок и пресноводный порт при радиевых рудниках, впоследствии обслуживал урановые и серебряные рудники в этом же регионе.
History
Port Radium is a mining area on the eastern shore of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada. It included the settlement of Cameron Bay as well as the Eldorado and Echo Bay mines. The name Port Radium did not come into use until 1936 and at the time it was in reference to the region as a whole. The Eldorado mine site at LaBine Point adopted the name for its settlement in the 1940s and it has generally stuck.