Rayrock North West Territories [sic] : history, uranium tailings and environment.

• Main Author: Kalin, Margarete A.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Boojum Research Limited 1984
• Subjects: Rayrock Mine Site; tailings; radium and copper concentration; lead concentrations; waste material; contaminated soil; windblown tailings; Northwest Territories; Yellowknife; Canada; Marian
• Online Access: https://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca/handle/10219/3083

The Rayrock Mine Site is located about 145 km northwest of Yellowknife and 56 km north of Marian Lake. Rayrock Mines Limited recovered 458,000 pounds of yellow-cake between June 1957 and July 1959, leaving about 80,000 tons of tailings in two piles to the south of the mine site. The piles cover an a...