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Okanagan Falls property, British Columbia

The Okanagan Falls property in southern British Columbia was an asbestos prospect of Western Asbestos & Development, Ltd., which the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1953 said was "taking active measures to develop" it along with a property at Revelstoke.2 The yearbook said the Okanagan Falls property "consists principally of anthophyllite."2 In May 1953 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that the company's work at its Vaseaux Lake property, "22 claims under option and 31 claims owned by location," had found "amphibole material of various grades" over an area "2,500 ft. long, averaging 200 ft. wide," and that "chrysotile fibre has also been found on the property but the quality is not satisfactory at the surface."1

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

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Location

Okanagan Falls, British Columbia, 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.

1952

  • Exploration: “Amphibole material of various grades was found over an area of 2,500 ft. long, averaging 200 ft. wide” (Western Asbestos & Development Ltd.), p. 181

1953

  • Fiber: “Amphibole material ... Chrysotile fibre has also been found on the property” (Western Asbestos & Development Ltd.), p. 181
  • Ownership: “The Company's Vaseaux Lake property consists of 22 claims under option and 31 claims owned by location” (Western Asbestos & Development Ltd.), p. 181
  • Exploration: “is taking active measures to develop two asbestos properties in southern British Columbia—the Okanagan Falls and the Revelstoke” (Western Asbestos & Development, Ltd.), p. 82
  • Fiber: “The former consists principally of anthophyllite” (Western Asbestos & Development, Ltd.), p. 92

Other names

Documents call this mine “Okanagan Falls”, “Vaseaux Lake Property”.

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1953, May 1953 (May 1, 1953), p. 18.
  2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1953 (January 1, 1954), pp. 8–9.

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