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 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.

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