| has gloss | eng: Keno City is a small community in the Yukon at the end of the Silver Trail highway. Population was about 20 in 2001. Site of a former silver-lead mining area on Keno Hill, Keno City is 13 kilometres away from the Elsa, Yukon, which is owned by a mining company. Rich silver and lead ore deposits were found on Keno Hill in 1919, and the population of the community has fluctuated. 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 the quiet, tranquil community. Keno City was named after the gambling game Keno popular in mining camps at 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 less 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 the placing of an industrial facility (crusher/mill/tailings) close to a residential community. |
