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Eldorado is a former mining community turned ghost town located on
After uranium was discovered in the Beaverlodge District in 1946, Eldorado Mining and Refining established Eldorado as a community to house its miners, their families, and related workers. By 1951, the community of Eldorado had a population of 184.
Eldorado Mining and Refining opened the Beaverlodge Mine in 1953. The Eldorado Company's major production came from the Fay-Ace-Verna mine shafts, mostly from uranium deposits located in the
Beaverlodge Lake
Beaverlodge Lake is a remote lake in northern Saskatchewan, Canada, located east of Uranium City. Road access is provided by Saskatchewan Highway 962, Highway 962.
The former Eldorado, Saskatchewan, Eldorado town site is on the lake and ther ...
in northern Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North ...
, Canada. Its original name was Beaverlodge. Eldorado and nearby Uranium City
Uranium City is a northern settlement in Saskatchewan, Canada. Located on the northern shores of Lake Athabasca near the border of the Northwest Territories, it is above sea level. The settlement is northwest of Prince Albert, northeast of E ...
are along Saskatchewan Highway 962, an isolated stretch of highway.
History
After uranium was discovered in the Beaverlodge District in 1946, Eldorado Mining and Refining established Eldorado as a community to house its miners, their families, and related workers. By 1951, the community of Eldorado had a population of 184.
Eldorado Mining and Refining opened the Beaverlodge Mine in 1953. The Eldorado Company's major production came from the Fay-Ace-Verna mine shafts, mostly from uranium deposits located in the Archaen
The Archean Eon ( , also spelled Archaean or Archæan) is the second of four geologic eons of Earth's history, representing the time from . The Archean was preceded by the Hadean Eon and followed by the Proterozoic.
The Earth during the Archean ...
Tazin Group. The deposits are found within the footwall and hanging wall of the St. Louis fault.
Eldorado had a one-room school that taught students through to grade six, after which they were transported to Uranium City. The first post office was established in 1953 with John Edgar Hamlin as postmaster. The community grew to a population of 939 by 1956.
After the decline of Eldorado's population to 229 in 1981, the Beaverlodge Mine shut down in 1982. The post office closed July 20, 1982, with May A. Grona as the last postmaster.
Climate
Transportation
Eldorado had its own air service of DC-3s and DC-4s, which supplemented commercial air service by Pacific Western Airlines. Air was the accepted mode of travel to and from Eldorado and Uranium City.See also
* Eldorado Mine (Saskatchewan) * Gunnar Mine * Lorado MineReferences
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