Tasu

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. It ran from 1918 until the early 1980s,[1] 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,[2] owned by Falconbridge Nickel Mines.

Tasu
Tasu Location of Tasu in British Columbia
Coordinates: 52°45′49″N 132°02′00″W
Country	Canada
Province	British Columbia

The Phyllis Cormack, a seiner, pulled into Tasu on its 1969 Greenpeace run to the Amchitka nuclear test.

See also

• Tasu Water Aerodrome
• Gold Harbour, British Columbia

References

1. https://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/salute-to-tasu
2. https://www.mindat.org/loc-26169.html

• 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.