Canari mine, Corsica

The Canari mine was in Corsica, France, and the sources describe its fiber as "chrysotile slip fibre."^1,4 In September 1948 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that the mine was "being made ready for production," and that "it is hoped to begin operation by January 1949, on a basis of approximately 15 to 20 tons per day, ultimately to be increased to a capacity of 10,000 tons of chrysotile slip fibre per year."¹ The same article said the quarry "will be mined as at Balengero (Turin, Italy)" by the Italian method of "Coltivazione and imbuto," with a horizontal cartage gallery "of about 700 yards length," and described a planned mill in three parts, with a crushing house and "a 'silo' of 10,000 tons of ore."¹ The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1948 likewise reported the mine "being developed for a projected production rate of 15 to 20 tons per day."⁴ The yearbook for 1950, citing Mining World, said: "It is reported that the Canari mine produced 1,050 tons of asbestos during the first quarter of 1950."² In October 1967 the trade journal reported that French consumption was now "supplied wholly from foreign countries, but until 1965, when the Canari mine in Corsica closed, about 6,800 metric tons were drawn from Corsica."³

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.²

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Location

Output the documents report

Figures as printed, in the units each document uses (short tons before about 1990, metric tons after, in most U.S. chapters). Some are a year's output, some a daily rate or a capacity, some a company's total rather than this mine's alone; the statement for that year below says which.

Year by year

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

1948

• Description: “The quarry will be mined as at Balengero ... by the Italian method of "Coltivazione and imbuto"”, p. 22¹
• Output: “ultimately to be increased to a capacity of 10,000 tons of chrysotile slip fibre per year”, p. 22¹
• Mill: “a "silo" of 10,000 tons of ore ... selection house ... horizontal Vernon dryers”, p. 22¹
• Fiber: “chrysotile slip fibre”, p. 22¹
• Exploration: “the Canari mine in Corsica was being developed for a projected production rate of 15 to 20 tons per day of chrysotile slip fiber”, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 12⁴

1949

• Opened: “being made ready for production—it is hoped to begin operation by January 1949”, p. 22¹

1950

• Output: “the Canari mine produced 1,050 tons of asbestos during the first quarter of 1950”, as reported by Mining World, p. 10²

1965

• Closed: “until 1965, when the Canari mine in Corsica closed”, p. 31³

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 workers (1)

• Viallat JR 1983: Late progression of radiographic changes in Canari chrysotile mine and mill exworkers: “The present radiological status of 133 exworkers (mean age: 58 ± 0. 7 yr) of the chrysotile mine of Canari (Corsica) was compared to that recorded in 1965, when the mine was closed.”

Studies of people who lived nearby (1)

• Magee F 1986: Malignant mesothelioma caused by childhood exposure to long-fiber low aspect ratio tremolite: “Until age 11, he had lived in Corsica, approximately 20 km from the Canari mine.”

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1948, September 1948 (September 1, 1948), p. 22.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1950 (January 1, 1951), p. 10.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1967, October 1967 (October 1, 1967), p. 31.
4. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1948 (January 1, 1949), p. 12.