Abitibi optioned property, McArthur Township, near Timmins, Ontario

This was an asbestos property in McArthur Township, near Timmins, Ontario, held under option by Abitibi Asbestos Mining Co. Ltd.: in December 1972 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that "an asbestos discovery also was made" there.¹ In 1971 the journal and the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook had both reported Abitibi "diamond drilling at an optioned asbestos property near Timmins," without naming the township.^2,3 In March 1973, citing the Northern Miner, Asbestos reported that in McArthur Township "a trench 130 feet long has cut rock containing 10% fiber in grades 5, 6 and 7," that Abitibi had "added 50 claims to its holdings there," and that it planned geophysics "and probably drilling in the spring."⁴

The documents describe this as a deposit or prospect: they report exploration or describe the deposit, not mining for sale.⁴

Location

Year by year

Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.

1971

• Exploration: “Abitibi is diamond drilling at an optioned asbestos property near Timmins” (Abitibi Asbestos Mining Co. Ltd.), p. 6²
• Exploration: “diamond drilling at an optioned asbestos property near Timmins, Ontario” (Abitibi Asbestos Mining Co. Ltd.), p. 9³

1972

• Exploration: “An asbestos discovery also was made on a property in McArthur Township, near Timmins” (Abitibi Asbestos Mining Co. Ltd.), p. 18¹

1973

• Exploration: “another asbestos find near Timmins, Ontario, in McArthur Township, where a trench 130 feet long has cut rock containing 10% fiber” (Abitibi Asbestos Mining Co. Ltd.), as reported by Northern Miner, p. 38⁴

Other names

Documents call this mine “McArthur Township property”, “asbestos find near Timmins”, “in McArthur Township”, “optioned asbestos property near Timmins”.

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1972, December 1972 (December 1, 1972), p. 18.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1971, December 1971 (December 1, 1971), p. 6.
3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1971 (January 1, 1972), p. 9.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1973, March 1973 (March 1, 1973), p. 38.