JM Asbestos Inc. new mine, Quebec

Documents in our library name JM Asbestos Inc. new mine at Quebec as an asbestos mine, run by JM Asbestos Inc., Groupe Minier Asbestos-Estrie, Capital d'Amerique.¹ They report it working in 1996.¹

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

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.

1996

• Output: “an annual capacity of 250,000 tons” (JM Asbestos Inc.), as reported by North American Minerals News, p. 2¹
• Ownership: “Partners in the development are Groupe Minier Asbestos-Estrie, an employees' cooperative, and Capital d'Amerique” (JM Asbestos Inc.), as reported by North American Minerals News, p. 2¹
• Exploration: “began development of an asbestos mine in Quebec” (JM Asbestos Inc.), as reported by North American Minerals News, p. 2¹

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1996 (January 1, 1997), p. 2.