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businesses settled down in a protective cove off Echo Bay, known as Cameron Bay. By 1933 the Canadian Government had surveyed a townsite. At its peak the Cameron Bay settlement had 100 permanent residents, and the Port Radium area as a whole probably boasted 200+ residents. But by 1934 all the important deposits had been staked and activity died down. The Eldorado Mine at LaBine Point entered production in 1933 and the Contact Lake silver mine followed in 1936. At Cameron Bay, the government established a post office, a government office, and a radio station. There was also a
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With the closure of the Eldorado Mine in June 1940, and the general lack of activity, the government closed up the offices at Cameron Bay, and except for a few native families that occupied the abandoned buildings, Port Radium was empty. When the Eldorado Mine reopened in 1942 to supply uranium ores
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Several settlements popped up in the 1930s in this area. Eldorado Mine became the first producing venture and it had its own private camp for its employees. There were also operations at the Elbonanza silver property, at White Eagle on the Camsell River, and at Contact Lake. In 1932 prospectors and
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The Eldorado Mine became the only remaining operation in the Port Radium area after 1942. Port Radium was occupied from 1942 to 1960 while the Eldorado Mine was producing uranium, then again between 1964 and 1982 when Echo Bay Mines Limited produced silver from the so-called Echo Bay Mine, and the
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made it a national political issue in Canada, and sparked the more famous native-rights activism in Alaska during the 1940s. The case faded in Port Radium itself after the closing of the Eldorado Mine, however, and did not return to the forefront until the 1980s, when some former mine workers
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protection coats containing lead. The government finally settled the case by providing treatment for the patients, and working with mine policy to ensure that similar injustices were not happening at the present and would not be allowed to happen in the future. A report was released in 2005
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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.
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that "The potential risk of cancer associated with transporting the ore concentrate is extremely small, and in fact so small it would not be detectable in the variability of natural cancers and factors of effect cancers such as smoking."
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The Cameron Bay area was officially renamed Port Radium in 1937. At that time, Cameron Bay had a population of 30. In the 1930s, Port Radium was home to an annual arctic
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Eldorado Mine. When the mine finally closed in 1982, Echo Bay burned down the remaining buildings with few exceptions. In 2007, the
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post. In 1936, the government facilities were rechristened Port Radium to glorify the nature of the nearby mining operations.
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challenging the link between uranium mining and cancer at Port Radium. Dr. Douglas Chambers told the
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During a field trip along the east arm of Great Bear Lake in August 1900, James McIntosh Bell of the
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workers, such as giving them the last priority when establishing safety services. The
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A cairn and plaque at Labine Point are the only remains of Port Radium. The old RCMP
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between the two to the north and consisted of a gravel airstrip next to Glacier Lake.
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completed the remediation at Port Radium by removing all remaining infrastructure.
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Between 1950 and 1974, this climatic data was collected at Port Radium:
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Climate data for Port Radium (1951−1980 normals, extremes 1937−1974)
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movement involved the Eldorado Mine's alleged discrimination against
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NWT Historical Timeline, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
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Cameron Bay is situated 7.25 km (4.50 mi) southeast at
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This article is about the mining area. For Port Radium Mine, see
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Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Office (December 2005).
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in the vicinity of Echo Bay. Thirty years later, a prospector
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developed health problems that were said to have been due to
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were highly valued at the time because the price of radium
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on LaBine Point on the McTavish Arm of Great Bear Lake.
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post was dismantled log by log in 2007, and rebuilt in
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Former mining town in Northwest Territories, Canada
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Index

Port Radium, Northwest Territories
Eldorado Mine (Northwest Territories)


Great Bear Lake
Northwest Territories
Eldorado
Echo Bay
66°05′11″N 118°02′21″W / 66.08639°N 118.03917°W / 66.08639; -118.03917 (Port Radium post office)
66°04′01″N 117°52′06″W / 66.06694°N 117.86833°W / 66.06694; -117.86833
66°06′N 117°56′W / 66.100°N 117.933°W / 66.100; -117.933 (Port Radium Airport)
Statistics Canada
Geological Survey of Canada
iron
copper
uranium
cobalt
Gilbert LaBine
pitchblende
silver
Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited
Radium
ores
salts
Belgium
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Hudson's Bay Company
dogsled
World War II
Canadian Federal government

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