St. Lawrence Asbestos property, Cranbourne Township, Quebec

The St. Lawrence Asbestos property lay in Cranbourne Township, Dorchester County, Quebec, and covered "1,040 acres," according to Asbestos, the industry's trade journal.¹ The St. Lawrence Asbestos Co., Ltd., sold its mineral rights, machinery and equipment to Lafayette Asbestos, the journal and the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook reported in 1952.^1,2 The yearbook said plans were being made for "a mill with a capacity of 2,000 tons of rock a day."² In January 1954 Asbestos reported that Lafayette's stockholders were told "a mill of 1,200 tons daily capacity should be completed and in operation within a year," and that diamond drilling had indicated "35,000,000 tons averaging 7.25 per cent asbestos fibre."³

The documents describe this as a deposit or prospect: they report exploration or describe the deposit, not mining for sale.³

Location

Year by year

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

1952

• Ownership: “Lafayette Asbestos Co., Ltd., recently purchased the mineral rights ... from the St. Lawrence Asbestos Co., Ltd.” (Lafayette Asbestos Co., Ltd.), p. 48¹
• Ownership: “Lafayette Asbestos Co., Ltd., has purchased the mineral rights, machinery, and equipment of the St. Lawrence Asbestos Co., Ltd.” (Lafayette Asbestos Co., Ltd.), p. 9²
• Mill: “Plans are being made for constructing a mill with a capacity of 2,000 tons of rock a day” (Lafayette Asbestos Co., Ltd.), p. 9²

1954

• Mill: “a mill of 1,200 tons daily capacity should be completed and in operation within a year” (Lafayette Asbestos Company), said by Lafayette Asbestos Company, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 50³
• Reserves: “diamond drilling is stated to have indicated 35,000,000 tons averaging 7.25 per cent asbestos fibre” (Lafayette Asbestos Company), said by Lafayette Asbestos Company, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 50³

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1952, August 1952 (August 1, 1952), p. 48.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1952 (January 1, 1953), p. 9.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1954, January 1954 (January 1, 1954), p. 50.