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Newfoundland Asbestos property, Port-au-Port Bay, Newfoundland

Documents in our library name Newfoundland Asbestos property at Port-au-Port Bay, Newfoundland as an asbestos mine, run by Newfoundland Asbestos, Ltd. They report it working in 1953.1 Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.

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

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Year by year

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

1953

  • Description: “The deposit is situated on a hillside into which a 500-foot adit has been driven” (Newfoundland Asbestos, Ltd.), p. 91
  • Mill: “equipment for an asbestos mill of 200-ton-a-day capacity was being moved to the property of Newfoundland Asbestos, Ltd., at Port-au-Port Bay” (Newfoundland Asbestos, Ltd.), p. 91

1958

  • Exploration: “Newfoundland Asbestos Ltd., working in the Lewis Hills, St. George-au-Port District, would appear to be a prospective producer in the near future” (Newfoundland Asbestos Ltd.), p. 102

Other names

Documents call this mine “property of Newfoundland Asbestos, Ltd., at Port-au-Port Bay”, “Newfoundland Asbestos Ltd., Lewis Hills”.

References

  1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1953 (January 1, 1954), p. 9.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1958, October 1958 (October 1, 1958), p. 10.

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