Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "MINE DRY ON LEFT". Photograph was glued to cardboard backing with the annotation: "1962".
Gravel road in foreground, mountain in background. Sign over road reads: "CAUTION TRAMLINE CROSSING".
Cassiar, BC
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Photograph depicts unknown men driving bulldozers on edge of mine area at high elevation. Dozers are Internationals, model TD24 (manufactured between 1947 and 1955). Mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts unknown men driving bulldozers on edge of mine area at high elevation. Dozers are Internationals, model TD24 (manufactured between 1947 and 1955). Valley and mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts two unidentified men at high elevation on mountain. Trucks and tanks visible in background, hose (possibly of air track drill) in right foreground. Mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts two unidentified men on road or mining bench at high elevation on mountain, valley in background.
Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Bill Giachino & 'Sam' June 1970 / #4 / 74% / by Tom Kiefer".
This file contains various aspects of the underground mine.
- Photos depicting damage to the underground mine such as fallen rocks, cracked shotcrete, twisted rock bolts and metal mesh, exposed and damaged steel structural frames, and repairs underway.
- Steel cables, chains, support arches, and custom welded rebar frames used in the structural reinforcement of the underground mine.
- Several engineering tests related to the structural damages are depicted.
- Two sets of images show a Porta Power hydraulic tool with a ready rod attached, a hand pump, as well as images of a technician testing the holding power of a rock bolt.
- Set of images documents a technician drilling cores and installing extensometer anchors, as well as grouting the anchors and connecting an extensometer. Technicians are shown inspecting damages with a ruler and rockhammer for scale.
- A set of images showcase the threaded rebar, nuts, and face plates used for rockbolts.
- Utility vehicles, yellow vent ducting, and utility pipes are visible in several images.
- Also include is an image of a man in office space, foggy night scene with a telephone pole, office desk, stack of supplies including concrete, steel cable, and spray paint, and several images of a broken piece of ore and concrete outside the mine portal.
- Several images depict miners working in the bucket of a scoop tram.
- Photos of the stramler feeder breakers, which was used in the underground mine.
- Images of ground support verifications where the deficiency of the exhaust ramp was investigated. This collection has various annotations explaining the broken shotcrete and the wire mesh installed.
- A collection of photographs depicting tunnel shotcrete failures. Each photograph has an accompanied textual annotation.
- Photos of MMD #750 Sizer equipment - assumed used in Underground Mine.
- Photos of pump used in 1335 level, wheel fan for ventilation removed from 1350 level,
- A collection of ground fall event 29 March 1989 - with annotations depicting damage
File contains images depicting the underground mine at Cassiar, showing structural damages, repaired damage ground support, and mining and repair processes.
The file contains a photo inventory entitled “Underground Mine Structural Inspection, Rock Mechanics Dept. Foto Documentation” with a complete file inventory linking the picture number to a location, title, and dated film. This photographic documentation was assembled for the purposes of liaising with a underground mining consultant located in South Africa.
- Images document structural ground support including steel cables, support arches, metal mesh, shotcrete, rockbolts, wooden beams.
- Images show ground support damaged through ground movement, but some depict newly installed or repaired support.
- Images depict ventilation ducting that was crushed or torn.
- Mining processes depicted include miners installing a rock breaker, miners paving the adit floor with concrete, miners inspecting a damaged section of mine, miner loading drill or blastholes with ANFO (ammonium nitrate / fuel oil mixture) explosives, and long hole drilling.
- Technical elements of the underground mine depicted include a mining device and ore in a chute (annotated ‘1290 crusher’), the conveyor, ‘LH drill’, ore processing machine annotated ‘1350 breaker’, and an electrical box titled ‘Weighometer’.
- Specific locations shown include ore draw points, ore passes, access drifts, a hatch and door titled “Fuel station 1415”, and a dead end drift with a stack of equipment and an orange cable annotated “1335 access electrical stations”.
Image of man seated with shovel in mountainous area, loose asbestos fibre in background. This photograph is believed to be either a double exposure of two images, or a print made from two negatives at once. Photo depicts an unidentified man sitting on the south ridge of the Cassiar ore body, where the crusher and rock reject plant would eventually sit. Valley in background appears to depict the "Footwall Road," which was cut into the mountain from the pit to the crusher plant and became the mine's main haul road.
Photograph depicts a man and woman standing on what is believed to be an early mining bench. Two men with air track drill can be seen in background, one man father down on left, mountain range in background. Image slightly distorted due to poor quality of negative.
Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "ASBESTOS FIBRE VEINS AS THEY OCCURR IN A ROCK FACE". Photo caption under printed copy of image in 1952 Annual Report: "North Wall of adit approximately 225 feet from portal showing asbestos veinlets."
Photograph depicts large swath of dark waste down mountainside to right of valley. The waste dump is believed to be visible at top of swath on right of image. Bench mining visible on the North and South peak in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Oct. 25 / 65 4:25 PM."
Photograph depicts benches of Cassiar's open mine. Men can be seen standing near machinery speculated to be blasthole drills in bottom left of image. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "Waste Stripping Operations on McDame Mt. Ore Mining in lower right Corner.", on verso: "1961".
Photograph depicts the West peak of the Cassiar mine, pit partially visible below. Drill visible in left foreground at highest elevation of mine, north west mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts the West peak of the Cassiar mine, pit partially visible below. Mining equipment barely visible in foreground at highest elevation of mine, north west mountain range stands in background, and mine valley crosses midground.
Photograph depicts pallets of fibre bags in shipping area (believed to be in mill building).
Photograph depicts pallets of fibre bags in shipping area (believed to be in mill building).
Photograph depicts tramline conveyors in centre of image (located west of mine). Conveyors ran from crusher plant to the tramline loading station. Building on left believed to be the crusher reject plant. Water truck can be seen by transfer building on far right (truck was used to thaw propane tank when necessary). Mine valley in background.
Photograph depicts tramline conveyor (located west of mine). Conveyor ran from crusher plant to tramline loading station. Mine valley and northwestern mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts tramline conveyor in centre of image (located west of mine). Conveyor ran from crusher plant to tramline loading station. Building on left believed to be the crusher reject plant. Mine valley and northwestern mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts crusher buildings in left foreground, located west of mine on McDame Mountain. Southeast mountain range in background.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine on McDame Mountain. Blasthole drills and ore haulage trucks visible below in open pit and on switchback road.
Photograph depicts a Euclid ore haulage truck in foreground. Shovel and unidentified caterpillar machine can be seen in background.
Photograph depicts what appears to be a Euclid ore haulage truck at entrance of building speculated to be the truck dumping station at crusher plant in mine.
Photograph depicts a Euclid ore haulage truck dumping material on pile in left foreground.
Photograph depicts unidentified man operating forklift on right. Pallets of asbestos fibre sit on trailer in background. Two men with clipboard stand in left foreground (David Pewsey on left, Chris Tates on right, see also item 2000.1.1.3.19.212).
Photograph depicts unidentified man operating forklift. Pallets of asbestos fibre sit on trailer in background. Believed to have been taken in shipping area of mill building.
Photograph depicts a shovel loading what appears to be a Euclid ore haulage truck on left. Unidentified Caterpillar machine in foreground.
Photograph depicts blasthole drill on left, bulldozer in centre, and shovel loading ore haulage truck in background. Second haul truck is semi-visible on far right. Hose equipment can be seen in foreground.
Photograph depicts the Cassiar mine on McDame Mountain. West peak semi-visible in foreground. Drills and ore haulage trucks visible below in pit and on switchback roads.
Plant buildings stand in midground. Conveyor believed to be leading to tailings pile can be seen in foreground. Valley and mountains in background.
Mill building in left midground. Conveyor believed to be leading to tailings pile can be seen in foreground. Valley and mountains in background.
Photograph depicts a shovel loading what appears to be a Euclid ore haulage truck in excavation area of mine.
Photograph depicts ore cars on cables running between tramline towers on left. Road in right foreground, building and McDame mountain in background. Tramline ran through mine valley, between loading station in mine and dump station at mill on plantsite.
Photograph depicts ore cars on cables running between tramline towers on left. Road in right foreground, building and McDame mountain in background. Tramline ran through mine valley, between loading station in mine and dump station at mill on plantsite.
Photograph depicts steel tower. Snow in foreground, mountainside in background.