Eagle property, Eagle Quadrant, Alaska

The Eagle property was a chrysotile asbestos deposit near Eagle, Alaska, that the sources describe being explored, not mined.^1,4 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, placed it "some 60 miles west of the Clinton Mine in the Yukon Territory," and reported in December 1977 that a year earlier Doyon Ltd. of Fairbanks and Asarco Inc. had entered into "a lease-partnership agreement for the possible mining of asbestos" there.⁵ "Latest reports indicate the property is subeconomic," the journal added.⁵

A year later the trade journal wrote that "potentially large mineralized zones are indicated and investigations are continuing," in a joint venture of General Crude Oil Company, McIntyre Mines (Nevada) Ltd., Tanana Asbestos Corporation (a subsidiary of Doyon) and the Anchorage consulting firm WGM Inc.⁴ The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook, in its chapter published in 1980, reported that the Alaska Asbestos Co., jointly owned by General Crude Oil, McIntyre Mines and Tanana Asbestos, had "an active program of drilling and engineering feasibility tests underway at the Eagle property owned by Doyon, Ltd."¹ The work, the yearbook said, was "being done by WGM, Inc. for a 5% interest," and it reported the same program for 1980, naming International Paper Co. among the owners.^1,2

For 1982 the Minerals Yearbook, drawing on the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, said that "the managing entity, Alaska Asbestos Co., is an equal partnership between International Paper Co. and Tanana Asbestos Co., a subsidiary of Doyon," and that "Doyon, Ltd., a Native corporation, owns the mineral rights."³

The documents describe this as a deposit or prospect: they report exploration or describe the deposit, not mining for sale.¹

Location

Year by year

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

1977

• Exploration: “a lease-partnership agreement for the possible mining of asbestos at a deposit located near Eagle, Alaska; Latest reports indicate the property is subeconomic” (Doyon Ltd.; Asarco Inc.), p. 23⁵

1978

• Exploration: “Potentially large mineralized zones are indicated and investigations are continuing at the Chrysotile asbestos deposit near Eagle” (General Crude Oil Company; McIntyre Mines (Nevada) Ltd.; Tanana Asbestos Corporation; WGM Inc.), p. 22⁴
• Ownership: “the Eagle property owned by Doyon, Ltd.” (Doyon, Ltd.), p. 3¹
• Ownership: “The Alaska Asbestos Co., jointly owned by General Crude Oil Co. ..., McIntyre Mines, Ltd., and Tanana Asbestos Corp.” (Alaska Asbestos Co.), p. 3¹
• Exploration: “an active program of drilling and engineering feasibility tests underway at the Eagle property” (Alaska Asbestos Co.), p. 3¹
• Exploration: “The work is being done by WGM, Inc. for a 5% interest” (WGM, Inc.), p. 3¹

1980

• Ownership: “jointly owned by International Paper Co., McIntyre Mines, Ltd., and Tanana Asbestos Corp. ... the Eagle property owned by Doyon, Ltd.” (Alaska Asbestos Co.; Doyon, Ltd.), p. 3²
• Exploration: “The work is being done by WGM, Inc., for a 5% interest” (WGM, Inc.), p. 3²
• Exploration: “maintaining an active program of drilling and engineering feasibility tests at the Eagle property” (Alaska Asbestos Co.), p. 3²

1982

• Ownership: “Alaska Asbestos Co., is an equal partnership between International Paper Co. and Tanana Asbestos Co., a subsidiary of Doyon” (Alaska Asbestos Co.), as reported by Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, p. 3³
• Ownership: “Doyon, Ltd., a Native corporation, owns the mineral rights” (Doyon, Ltd.), as reported by Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, p. 3³
• Description: “An Alaskan newspaper described chrysotile deposits in the Eagle Quadrant”, as reported by Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, p. 3³

Other names

Documents call this mine “Eagle property”, “chrysotile deposits in the Eagle Quadrant”.

See also

• Asbestos exposure sites in Alaska
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1978–79 (January 1, 1980), p. 3.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1980 (January 1, 1981), p. 3.
3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1982 (January 1, 1983), p. 3.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1978, December 1978 (December 1, 1978), p. 22.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1977, December 1977 (December 1, 1977), p. 23.