Daffodil property, Deloro Township, Ontario

The Daffodil property, "formerly known as the Nakhodas property," lay in Deloro Township, Cochrane District, Ontario, and was explored by Great Northern Pulp & Paper Group Ltd., according to Asbestos, the industry's trade journal.¹ In 1976 the journal reported a preliminary assessment showing "a potential of 50-100 million tons of asbestos-bearing rock amenable to open-pit mining (fiber Grades 4-7)," and said the company was seeking a major partner.¹ The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1977 listed it among properties "undergoing exploration or awaiting development or financing decisions."² That year the company said that several fiber-bearing zones had been traced "both to the North and South."³ In 1978 a report by Kilborn Ltd. recommended "drilling to 1,500 feet," aiming "to prove reserves in the 37-million to 50-million ton range."⁴

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

Year by year

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

1976

• Reserves: “a potential of 50-100 million tons of asbestos-bearing rock amenable to open-pit mining (fiber Grades 4-7)” (Great Northern Pulp & Paper Group Ltd.), p. 34¹
• Exploration: “has assessed the economic viability of the Daffodil asbestos property, formerly known as the Nakhodas property” (Great Northern Pulp & Paper Group Ltd.), p. 31¹

1977

• Exploration: “the extension of several of the fiber-bearing zones both to the North and South have been traced out” (Great Northern Pulp & Paper Group Ltd.), p. 28³
• Exploration: “Great Northern Pulp and Paper Group Ltd. and its Daffodil property in Deloro Township, Ontario” (Great Northern Pulp and Paper Group Ltd.), p. 9²

1978

• Exploration: “A report has been submitted by Kilborn Ltd. which recommends drilling to 1,500 feet at the Daffodil asbestos property” (Great Northern Pulp & Paper Group Ltd.), p. 32⁴

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1976, December 1976 (December 1, 1976), pp. 31, 34.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1977 (January 1, 1978), p. 9.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1977, December 1977 (December 1, 1977), p. 28.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1978, December 1978 (December 1, 1978), p. 32.