Tungsten, Northwest Territories

During the summer months, because of the open pit operation, manpower and townsite population grew to 160.

A year or two later, the telephone exchange, with only a handful of active lines on obsolescent electromechanical equipment, was shut down.

Following an investment by the Yukon based Kaska Dena Council in December 2004 the mine was reopened in 2005.

The original bungalow houses remain to this day, along with the school, and stand as a monument to a time when town life was busy with local residents.

[4] Tungsten has a subarctic climate (Dfc) with long, severely cold winters and short but mild and rainy summers.