Hollinger discovery, Newton Township, near Timmins, Ontario

Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported in December 1976 that Hollinger Mines Ltd. was "undertaking a diamond drilling program on an asbestos discovery on the Newton Township property of its Rundle Gold Mines," in the Horwood Lake-Rush Lake area "65 miles southwest of Timmins," Ontario, and that rock sample tests showed the fiber "to have good, acceptable physical qualities."¹ The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1977 listed the Newton Township discovery among asbestos properties "either undergoing exploration or awaiting development or financing decisions."² The trade journal reported that year that the company "has done some diamond drilling" there, and in December 1978 that "no further work has been done since diamond drilling over a year ago."^3,4

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

Location

Year by year

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

1976

• Exploration: “undertaking a diamond drilling program on an asbestos discovery on the Newton Township property of its Rundle Gold Mines” (Hollinger Mines Ltd.), p. 34¹

1977

• Exploration: “has done some diamond drilling at its asbestos discovery on the Newton Township property of its Rundle Gold Mines” (Hollinger Mines Ltd.), p. 30³
• Exploration: “Hollinger Mines Ltd. and its discovery in Newton Township near Timmins, Ontario” (Hollinger Mines Ltd.), p. 9²

1978

• Idle: “No further work has been done since diamond drilling over a year ago” (Hollinger Mines Ltd.), p. 36⁴

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1976, December 1976 (December 1, 1976), p. 34.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1977 (January 1, 1978), p. 9.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1977, December 1977 (December 1, 1977), p. 30.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1978, December 1978 (December 1, 1978), p. 36.