Documents in our library name Continental Mine at Coleraine, Quebec as an asbestos mine, run by Continental Asbestos Co. Ltd. They report it working in 1950.1
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.
1950
- Mill: “a mill of approximately 750 tons per day was erected and operated for a while in the development of the Continental Mine in Coleraine” (Continental Asbestos Co. Ltd.), p. 101
1952
- Idle: “until August 1st, 1952, when financial difficulties compelled a temporary suspension” (Continental Asbestos Co. Ltd.), p. 101
- Buyers: “a contract was executed with the American Smelting & Refining Company ... bulk rock tests evaluating the United Asbestos Corporation Limited mine at Black Lake” (Continental Asbestos Co. Ltd.), p. 101
Other names
Documents call this mine “Continental Mine”, “Continental mill”.
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953 (May 1, 1953), p. 10.
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