Asbestos deposit, near Sligo, Ireland

Northern Canada Mines, Ltd. planned exploratory drilling of an asbestos deposit "near Sligo on the northwest coast" of Ireland in 1962, according to the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook.² The yearbook for 1963, drawing on the Engineering and Mining Journal, reported that "exploratory work has been carried on and chrysotile fiber has been found."¹ It added that "the program will continue on a basis of 49 percent Northern Canada and 51 percent Canadian Johns-Manville."¹

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

1962

• Exploration: “Exploratory drilling of a deposit near Sligo on the northwest coast was planned by Northern Canada Mines, Ltd.” (Northern Canada Mines, Ltd.), p. 10²

1963

• Fiber: “chrysotile fiber”, p. 9¹
• Exploration: “Exploratory work has been carried on and chrysotile fiber has been found” (Northern Canada Mines, Ltd.), as reported by Engineering and Mining Journal, p. 9¹
• Ownership: “The program will continue on a basis of 49 percent Northern Canada and 51 percent Canadian Johns-Manville” (Canadian Johns-Manville), as reported by Engineering and Mining Journal, p. 9¹

Other names

Documents call this mine “deposit near Sligo”, “area of about 11 square miles in Counties Sligo and Leitrim”.

See also

• Canadian Johns-Manville: the company's documents, people, products and plants
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1963 (January 1, 1964), p. 9.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1962 (January 1, 1963), p. 10.