Tasu
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Country | Canada |
Province | British Columbia |
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 in the Queen Charlotte Islands of the North Coast of British Columbia, Canada.
The Phyllis Cormack, a seiner, pulled into Tasu on its 1969 Greenpeace run to the Amchitka nuclear test.
See also
References
- Photo gallery of Tasu Sound townsite
- BC Govt MINFILE Record Summary, Tasu or Tassoo
- BC Govt MINFILE Mineral Inventory, Tasu Townsite
- "Tasu". BC Geographical Names.