Elsa is a former privately owned mining town in the Canadian territory of Yukon, between the Stewart River valley to the south and the Mackenzie Mountains to the north.
The town was built in 1935 by the mining company Treadwell Yukon to support the development of a new mill for the nearby deposits of silver, lead, and zinc.
[11] Treadwell's assets were purchased by United Keno Hill Mines (UKHM) in 1946,[12] and by the 1950s UKHM was the second largest producer of silver in Canada and the fourth largest in the world.
[12] Due to economic pressure from decreases in the price of silver in the late 1970s, United Keno Hill Mines ceased operations in Elsa in 1989.
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