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Kugluktuk (Qurluqtuq, lit. ' the place of moving water '; [7] Inuktitut syllabics: ᖁᕐᓗᖅᑐᖅ; Inuktitut pronunciation:), known as Coppermine until 1 January 1996, is a hamlet at the mouth of the Coppermine River in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada, on Coronation Gulf, southwest of Victoria Island.
The Coppermine River is a river in the North Slave and Kitikmeot regions of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Canada. It is 845 kilometres (525 mi) [ 4] long. It rises in Lac de Gras, a small lake near Great Slave Lake, and flows generally north to Coronation Gulf, an arm of the Arctic Ocean. The river freezes in winter but may still ...
Source of copper. Annual production (thousand tonnes) 1. Morenci. Greenlee County, Arizona. 33°05′26″N 109°22′00″W. / 33.09056°N 109.36667°W / 33.09056; -109.36667. Freeport-McMoRan (72%), Sumitomo Group (28%) Open pit, copper-molybdenum ore, producing copper cathode, copper and molybdenum concentrates.
Coppermine expedition. The Coppermine expedition of 1819–1822 was a British overland undertaking to survey and chart the area from Hudson Bay to the north coast of Canada, eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine River. The expedition was organised by the Royal Navy as part of its attempt to discover and map the Northwest Passage.
Coppermine may refer, apart from the primary meaning of copper extraction, to: Coppermine Bay, Greenland. Coppermine Herald, one of the heralds at the Canadian Heraldic Authority. Coppermine Peninsula, Antarctica. Coppermine River, in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. Kugluktuk, Nunavut, formerly known as Coppermine.
Coppermine Peninsula is the rugged, rocky promontory forming the northwest extremity of Alfatar Peninsula and Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It lies between the English Strait to the west and Carlota Cove to the east. It is 1.7 km long, 500 m wide and rising to 105 m. Coppermine Peninsula is linked to Alfatar Peninsula ...
The Coppermine River Group is a sequence of Mesoproterozoic continental flood basalts forming part of the Mackenzie Large Igneous Province in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Canada. It is among the largest flood basalt provinces on Earth, covering the area with a volume of approximately 650,000 km 3 (155,943 cu mi).
November 13, 1966 [ 1] Designated NHL. November 13, 1966 [ 2] The Bingham Canyon Mine, more commonly known as Kennecott Copper Mine among locals, [ 3] is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The mine is the largest human-made excavation, and deepest ...