Quebec Asbestos Mines deposit, East Broughton, Quebec

The Quebec Asbestos deposit was at East Broughton, Quebec, and the sources tie it from the start to the Philip Carey Manufacturing Company.^1,2,5 In October 1925 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, printed a visitor's account saying that the Quebec Asbestos Corporation, "owned by the Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, operates the old Ling property as well as the old Eastern Township Asbestos Mill," and that it was "working night and day, the majority of its material being used by the Philip Carey Company, and the surplus sold in the open market."¹ In February 1935 the trade journal reported that Philip Carey owned and operated "the Quebec Asbestos Corporation of Canada with mines and mills at East Broughton, P. Q.," which would supply the new Philip Carey Company Limited plant at Lennoxville.² In the spring of 1949 the trade journal reported that operations of "the Quebec Asbestos Mines at East Broughton" were "normal," and that "operations are continuing" there.^3,4 The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1957 says that "the deposit at East Broughton mined by Quebec Asbestos Mines, a subsidiary of the Philip Carey Manufacturing Co., was nearly exhausted."⁵ In April 1958 the trade journal reported that "Carey-Canadian Mines is replacing the existing mine and mill of Quebec Asbestos Corp. at East Broughton."⁶

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.¹

Location

Year by year

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

1925

• Ownership: “owned by the Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, operates the old Ling property” (Quebec Asbestos Corporation; Philip Carey Manufacturing Company), p. 24¹
• Buyers: “the majority of its material being used by the Philip Carey Company” (Quebec Asbestos Corporation), p. 24¹

1935

• Ownership: “Philip Carey Manufacturing Company owns and operates the Quebec Asbestos Corporation of Canada with mines and mills at East Broughton” (The Philip Carey Manufacturing Company; Quebec Asbestos Corporation), p. 38²
• Buyers: “Source of supply for the new Philip Carey Company Limited plant at Lennoxville, P. Q.” (Philip Carey Company Limited), p. 38²

1949

• Worked: “Operations of the Quebec Asbestos Mines at East Broughton ... are normal” (Quebec Asbestos Mines), p. 42³
• Worked: “operations are continuing at ... Quebec Asbestos Mining Company at East Broughton” (Quebec Asbestos Mining Company), p. 47⁴

1957

• Reserves: “was nearly exhausted” (Quebec Asbestos Mines), p. 8⁵
• Worked: “The deposit at East Broughton mined by Quebec Asbestos Mines” (Quebec Asbestos Mines), p. 8⁵
• Ownership: “Quebec Asbestos Mines, a subsidiary of the Philip Carey Manufacturing Co.” (Philip Carey Manufacturing Co.), p. 8⁵

1958

• Closed: “Carey-Canadian Mines is replacing the existing mine and mill of Quebec Asbestos Corp. at East Broughton” (Quebec Asbestos Corp.), p. 6⁶

Other names

Documents call this mine “deposit at East Broughton”, “old Ling property”.

See also

• Philip Carey Manufacturing Co.: the company's documents, people, products and plants
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1925, October 1925 (October 1, 1925), p. 24.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1935, February 1935 (February 1, 1935), p. 38.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1949, March 1949 (March 1, 1949), p. 42.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1949, April 1949 (April 1, 1949), p. 47.
5. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1957 (January 1, 1958), p. 8.
6. Asbestos Magazine, 1958, April 1958 (April 1, 1958), p. 6.