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Snap Lake Airport

Snap Lake Mine, Canada

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ICAO

CSK6

Elevation

1557 ft

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Location

Snap Lake Mine · NT · Canada

Position

63.594°, -110.906° · 1557 ft elev.

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Remote airstrip serving the Snap Lake diamond mine.

Location

Snap Lake Mine, Canada

Snap Lake Airport (IATA: YNX, ICAO: CSK6) is a private aerodrome located at the Snap Lake Mine site in the Northwest Territories of Canada, approximately 220 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife. The airport was built to support De Beers Canada's Snap Lake diamond mine, one of the first fully underground diamond mines in Canada. The facility operates primarily as a fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) operation, transporting mine workers on a rotational shift basis rather than serving general commercial aviation. Following the indefinite suspension of mining operations at Snap Lake in late 2015, and the subsequent move toward care and maintenance, activity at the airport declined significantly.

Getting to & from

No public ground transport exists; access to the mine site is exclusively by air, as the location is not connected to any road network.

Airlines here

Charter operators transport mine workers on a rotational basis; no scheduled commercial airline service operates at this airport.

Notable facts

›Serves the Snap Lake diamond mine, operated by De Beers Canada.
›Located approximately 220 km northeast of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories.
›Functions as a fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) facility for mine workers.
›De Beers placed the Snap Lake Mine on care and maintenance in 2015, reducing airport activity.
›The site is not accessible by road, making air transport the sole means of access.

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This is a list of airports in the Northwest Territories. It includes all Nav Canada certified and registered water and land airports, aerodromes and heliports in the Canadian territory of the Northwest Territories. Airport names in italics are part of the National Airports System.

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