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Title: Canadian mining journal January-June 1905
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: (Don Mills, Ont., Southam Business Communications)
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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age yield and values to be the mineral pro-vince of the Dominion, Ontario may well argue, that judgedfrom the standard which is, after all, to the capitalist, the moreconvincing one, that of dividend-earning capabilities, she stillhas relatively the advantage of her western competitor. Inaddition to these established and profit-earning mines, prop-erties, in some cases, of exceptional promise are now opened ville, Que., which has lately made some important additionsto its plant. The Companys quarries and fibreizing plantare situated about three miles southeast of Danville, withwhich point communication is established by the Asbesto &Danville Railway. The quarries were first opened in 1879,and are situated on a ridge of serpentine rock covering anarea of nearly 100 acres. The asbestos is found in veins fromone-eighth inch to two or three inches, which occur through-out the whole mass of serpentine. The fibre in each vein isabsolutely pure, and its quality very fine and uniform. The
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The Mill Buildings at thb Asbestos and Asbbstic Companys Property, Danville, Que. up in new districts, and it is no longer so difficult to find eitherCanadian or American capital for the development of them. Itis probable that some important developments will take placethis year in the Temiskaming region of Ontario, as well as theadjacent territory extending into the Province of Quebec. ASBESTOS MINING AT QUEBEC. Among our illustrations this month are reproductions fromthree recent photographs of the works and plant ofthe Asbestos and Asbestic Company, Ltd., operating at Dan- rock is quarried and hoisted from the pits by means of cablederricks. The longest veins, however, are cobbed or hand-picked, the balance of the rock containing the shorter veinsbeing conveyed to the crushers, from which it passes to theseparating and fibreizing machinery, the finely ground refusebeing shipped for wall-plastering purposes. The fibreizingplant consists of two separate mills, the new and larger mill

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