Nanisivik Mine
Nanisivik Mine was a zinc-lead mine in the company town of Nanisivik, Nunavut, 750 km north of the Arctic Circle on Baffin Island. It was Canada's first mine in the Arctic.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nanisivik.
Nanisivik
Dwelling
Photo: Loimere, Public domain.
Nanisivik is a now-abandoned company town which was built in 1975 to support the lead-zinc mining and mineral processing operations for the Nanisivik Mine, in production between 1976 and 2002.
Nanisivik Mine
- Type: Locality
- Description: former zinc and lead mine in Nunavut, Canada
- Category: mine
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
73.02405° or 73° 1′ 27″ northLongitude
-84.47834° or 84° 28′ 42″ westOpen location code
C65Q2GFC+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 4025872995OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q6963621
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Satellite Map
Discover Nanisivik Mine from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From French to Galician—“Nanisivik Mine” goes by many names.
- French: “mine Nanisivik”
- French: “Mine Nanisivik”
- Galician: “mina Nanisivik”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Borden Peninsula and Nanisivik Naval Facility.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nanisivik Mine”. Photo: FiLo X, CC BY-SA 3.0.