Cantung Mine

Cantung Mine is a tungsten producer in the Nahanni area of the Northwest Territories, Canada, located northeast of Watson Lake in the Flat River Valley of the Selwyn Range close to the Yukon border.

The federal government of Canada now owns the mine and has to clean up the site.

[2] As of December, 2017, the mine remained closed, with the possibility of being opened to process a nearby lithium deposit.

It was an open-pit operation until 1974 when the newly discovered underground deposit was brought to production.

"With higher prices in the new millennium, the new owner, North American Tungsten Corporation, reopened the mine for production in 2002.

This mine started in the early 1960s and it has been taken care of quite well, but you are still dealing with very old equipment... China used to say it had an infinite amount of tungsten.