Faro (Yukon)
Faro is a city in the Yukon, which was created by one of the largest open pit zinc-lead mines in the world.
It lies on the Pelly River, on the road from Carmacks to Red River and in 2006 had just 341 inhabitants, of whom 50 were among the First Nations. In 1982, the place still 2,100 inhabitants.
Faro has an airport, the Faro Airport.
Owes its name to the place the card game of the same name.
History
1843 drove Robert Campbell, an employee of the Hudson 's Bay Company was the first European traders, along with his interpreter and Hoole with the hunters Lapie and Kitza, the Pelly River down. Even George Dawson traveled and charted the area. From the Klondike Gold Rush, the region remained relatively untouched since the gold discoveries were too small.
Charles Sheldon replaced after 1905 with his book The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon to the influx of many hunters that decimated the wild stocks.
1953 earned Al Kulan and seven Kaska Prospectors a claim to build a iron mine. Its leader was the Injun Joe Ladue. 1960 founded Kulan and Aaro Aho the company Dynasty Explorations. 1965 already 100 men worked in the lead-zinc mine. Soon she collaborated with Cypress Mining from Los Angeles and founded the Cyprus Anvil Mining Corporation. The new mine took in 1969 on its operation and became the largest mine of its kind in Canada, the largest employer in the Yukon, which generated about a third of the economic performance of the territory.
The Cyprus Anvil Mining Corporation built in 1968 Faro as a base for the development, including a road between Carmacks and Ross River was built. She is now part of the Yukon Highway 4 On June 13, 1969, however, a forest fire destroyed the houses that were soon rebuilt. In 1970, the place around 800 inhabitants, in 1981 nearly 2,000. The Ore Mine worked until 1982. Ores you provided to Whitehorse, from where they were transported over the White Pass and Yukon Route by truck and train to Skagway. Cyprus Anvil was acquired by Dome Petroleum.
For the first time in June 1982, the works were facing declining ore prices interrupted in September, the mine closure was announced. 1985 Faro had only 97 inhabitants.
In 1986 the production was resumed by Curragh Resources and with government subsidies. Now exclusively transported the ore trucks to Skagway, where it was loaded onto ships. But in 1993 the mine was closed again.
1995-1998, the Anvil Range Mining Corporation tried for the last time in the field, Anvil Range filed for bankruptcy. The equipment and vehicles have now been sold.
Today Faro tourists trying to attract and refers to rare animal populations in the area, such as Dall sheep Ovis dalli fannini the controversial subspecies, called Fannin 's Sheep.