Tasu or Tassoo, also Old Tasu or Old Tasu Townsite, was an iron and copper (w/ precious metal sweeteners) open pit and underground mining operation and townsite located on the south shore of Tasu Sound in west-central

Moresby Island Moresby Island ( hai, Gwaii Haanas) is a large island () that forms part of the Haida Gwaii archipelago (formerly known as Queen Charlotte Islands) in British Columbia, Canada, located at . It is separated by the narrow Skidegate Channel from ...

in the Queen Charlotte Islands of the North Coast of British Columbia,

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. It ran from 1918 until the early 1980s, with the townsite growing full size in the early 1960s. The early iron mine was owned and worked by Japanese miners, with the mine finishing operation as Wesfrob Mine, owned by Falconbridge Nickel Mines. The ''

Phyllis Cormack The ''Phyllis Cormack'' is a 25-meter (82-foot) herring and halibut seine fishing boat, displacing 99 tons and crewed by up to 12 people. The wooden vessel was built in 1941 in Tacoma, Washington, by Marine View Boat Works. The vessel was charter ...

'', a

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, pulled into Tasu on its 1969

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run to the

Amchitka Amchitka (; ale, Amchixtax̂; russian: Амчитка) is a volcanic, tectonically unstable and uninhabited island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska. It is part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refu ...

nuclear test.

References

Photo gallery of Tasu Sound townsiteBC Govt MINFILE Record Summary, Tasu or TassooBC Govt MINFILE Mineral Inventory, Tasu Townsite
* Mining communities in British Columbia Company towns in Canada Ghost towns in British Columbia Populated places in Haida Gwaii {{Canada-ghost-town-stub

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