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New Lafayette Asbestos Co. deposit, Eastern Townships district, Quebec

The New Lafayette Asbestos Company's property lay near Saint Odilon de Crambourne, "in Dorchester Co., Eastern Twps., district of Quebec," according to Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, in November 1955.1 The journal described the company as "the new organization of the old Lafayette Asbestos Company," with its office in Montreal.1 The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1955 reported that the company "announced plans to drive an adit to open up and sample an asbestos deposit found by diamond drilling," and that estimates were "over 10-million tons of 4-percent-asbestos ore."2 Asbestos reported that the directors had approved "further diamond drilling to outline the asbestos deposit," based on results from "an adit being driven, and surface trenching being performed on the property."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.2

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Location

Eastern Townships district, Quebec, the town named in the documents. The dot marks the town, not the mine itself.

Year by year

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

1955

  • Exploration: “an adit being driven, and surface trenching being performed on the property” (New Lafayette Asbestos Co. Ltd.), p. 461
  • Description: “Holdings are located near St. Odilon de Crambourne, in Dorchester Co., Eastern Twps.” (New Lafayette Asbestos Co. Ltd.), p. 461
  • Exploration: “Further diamond drilling to outline the asbestos deposit on the company's property has been approved” (New Lafayette Asbestos Co. Ltd.), p. 461
  • Exploration: “announced plans to drive an adit to open up and sample an asbestos deposit found by diamond drilling” (New Lafayette Asbestos Co., Ltd.), p. 122
  • Reserves: “over 10-million tons of 4-percent-asbestos ore” (New Lafayette Asbestos Co., Ltd.), p. 122
  • Ownership: “the new organization of the old Lafayette Asbestos Company” (New Lafayette Asbestos Co. Ltd.), p. 461

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1955, November 1955 (November 1, 1955), p. 46.
  2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1955 (January 1, 1956), p. 12.

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