Black Lake Mine, Quebec

Documents in our library name Black Lake Mine at Black Lake, Quebec as an asbestos mine. They report it working in 1935.¹

The documents report work here (mining, shafts or a mill) but no fiber sold or shipped; that is what our documents say, and the mine may still have sold some.¹

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Location

Year by year

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

1930

• Idle: “Shut down almost five years before (about 1930)”, p. 26¹

1935

• Opened: “Black Lake Mine opened again, almost five years after it shut down”, p. 26¹

In medical studies

Medical studies in our research library that name this mine, by how they concern it. A search found every one that names the mine and an AI reader sorted them; the quotation, checked word for word against the text, shows where. Those that name the mine only in passing or in a reference list are left out.

Studies of the mine’s fiber (1)

• Nowamooz A 2018: Atmospheric Carbon Mineralization in an Industrial-Scale Chrysotile Mining Waste Pile: “Warm air vents depleted in CO2 were reported in 2009 at the top of the 110 Mt pile of 80 chrysotile mining waste of the Black Lake Mine in Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada”

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1935, August 1935 (August 1, 1935), p. 26.