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Echo Bay Mines Limited was a CanadianBOOK, Georg Witschel, New Chances and New Responsibilities in the Arctic Region: Papers from the International Conference at the German Federal Foreign Office in Cooperation with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and Norway, 11-13 March 2009, Berlin,weblink 2010, BWV Verlag, 978-3-8305-1750-4, 206–, company which was organized in 1964 by Northwest Explorers Limited to develop a silver deposit at Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, which had been staked in 1930 by The Consolidated Mining and Smelting CompanyBOOK, Schiller, E A, Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 65-11,weblink Natural Resources Canada, 42–, GGKEY:CR5H58XXBJZ, (now called Teck Resources). The company leased the old Port Radium settlement from Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited and used the old camp and mill to recover silver and copper values from what became known as the Echo Bay Mine. Production in the Echo Bay workings ceased in 1975. The company then reopened the old Eldorado Mine workings and produced more silver and copper until 1981, when low silver prices caused the mine to close permanently.Echo Bay Mines Limited went on to open a new gold mine, called Lupin Mine, in what was then the Northwest Territories and is today in Nunavut.BOOK, William C. Wonders, Canada's Changing North,weblink 2003, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 978-0-7735-2590-0, 224–, It entered production in 1982.Echo Bay Mines Limited developed numerous other properties,BOOK, Jay P. Pederson, International Directory of Company Histories,weblink 2001, St. James Press, 978-1-55862-443-6, BOOK, U.S. Geological Survey Circular,weblink 1989, The Survey, 1–, mostly in the United States, including two mines in Nevada, McCoy/Cove and Round Mountain gold mine, and the Kettle River mine in Washington. Corporate headquarters were in Englewood, Colorado. In 1986 the company purchased Sunnyside Gold Mine in Silverton, Colorado, and operated it for five years before it closed because of low gold prices.BOOK, Robert Frodeman, Geo-Logic: Breaking Ground between Philosophy and the Earth Sciences,weblink 1 February 2012, SUNY Press, 978-0-7914-8744-0, 29–, The company became a subsidiary of Kinross Gold Corporation in 2003 and has been delisted from the stock exchange.

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