11-528: Keno City Mining Museum is a history museum located in Keno City , Yukon, Canada. It was established around 1979 and has artifacts related to the area's gold and silver mining. The museum occupies Jackson Hall, the city's former community centre built in 1922. It was established in 1979 with the assistance of Terry J. Levicki, a geologist who worked for United Keno Hill Mines Ltd., a company in Elsa . The museum
22-466: A contract to clean up past impacts. With this deal Alexco also became the sole-source clean-up contractor to the Government of Canada in charge to clean up the environmental mess left by former mining activities (estimated $ 60+ millions of taxpayer's monies). In 2009 Alexco decided to resume silver mining in the district. Some of the 15 residents of Keno City have opposed a proposal by Alexco to build
33-590: Is a small community in Yukon , Canada at the end of the Silver Trail highway. Keno City was the site of a former silver - lead mining area proximal to Keno Hill. Keno City is 13 kilometres away from Elsa, Yukon , which is owned by Hecla mining who currently own and operate the various Ag-Pb-Zn deposits in the Keno Hill area. Rich silver and lead ore deposits were found on Keno Hill in 1919, and since then
44-626: Is located at Mile 69.1 of the Silver Trail, Yukon Highway 11. The British Yukon Navigation Company sternwheeler SS Keno is preserved in Dawson City and protected as a National Historic Site . The 2004 Kim Barlow album Luckyburden is about Keno City. Two tracks are recorded live at the Keno City Snackbar. Whitehorse-based singer/songwriter, Megan Haddock , references Keno City in her 2015 song "Small Town". In
55-407: Is open to visitors from June to September. Around 1991, the museum received roughly 500 visitors each month during its annual four months of operation. The museum displays objects such as equipment, and memorabilia. It has a large collection of photographs on the second floor and a garage across the street that stores bigger items. Some of the artifacts are as follows: Keno City Keno City
66-477: The 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Keno Hill had a population of 20 living in 16 of its 52 total private dwellings, a change of 0% from its 2016 population of 20 . With a land area of 53.88 km (20.80 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.4/km (1.0/sq mi) in 2021. With the property abandoned by the previous owners, and mounting environmental impacts due to metal laden water coming from mine adits , in 2006
77-631: The Federal Government sold the assets of former United Keno Hill Mines through the Supreme Court to an Alexco Resource Corp. (Vancouver based mining company) subsidiary for $ 410,000. Alexco now became the 100% owner of the Yukon Keno Hill Silver district (23,350 hectares hosting 35 prior producing mines, its own private town of Elsa, and the infrastructure), with a requirement to stop the environmental degradation and
88-658: The crusher/mill and tailing facility less than one kilometre from their homes in Keno City, YT which will impact this quiet small community. The ore was historically processed in Elsa, which is located approximately 13 km away from Keno City. This proposal was recommended to proceed subject to specified terms and conditions by the Mayo Designated Office of Yukon Socio-Economic Assessment board (YESAB). Yukon's Department of Energy, Mines and Resources (EMR) issued
99-532: The placing of an industrial facility (crusher/mill/tailings) close to a residential community. Keno City has also developed some tourism-based businesses, and its attraction is the Keno Mining Museum with an extensive collection dedicated to the history of mining in Yukon from the early 1900s until the present. The signpost on the top of Keno Hill showing distances to places around the world. Keno City
110-455: The population of the community has fluctuated in response to the mining activity in the area. When in 1989 United Keno Hill closed the mines, literally overnight, the people in the Keno area who decided to stay chose a more sustainable economy: tourism. They successfully marketed Keno City as a quiet, tranquil community. Keno City was named after the gambling game Keno popular in mining camps at
121-414: The turn of the 20th century. A small placer mining operation is behind Keno City, indicating the present support for active disturbance of earth materials through mining in the vicinity of Keno City. Some people believe that fewer materials will be moved through the new Alexco proposal than have been moved by placer mining around Keno City. The issue, however, is not the amount of material being moved but
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