Tasu | |
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  Tasu Location of Tasu in British Columbia | |
| Coordinates: 52°45′49″N 132°02′00″W / 52.76361°N 132.03333°W | |
| 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 Haida Gwaii 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.
The Phyllis Cormack, a seiner, pulled into Tasu on its 1969 Greenpeace run to the Amchitka nuclear test.