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Photograph of Ingersoll-Rand machinery drilling in the early days of the Cassiar Pit. Various workers depicted.

Photograph of two Ingersoll-Rand drills in the early days of the Cassiar Pit. A truck and various figures are depicted.

Photograph of dry rock storage of Nordenhem Finishing Mill in Germany. Part of Visitation Report.

Photograph of outside of dry rock storage building in Nordenham Germany. Part of Visitation Report.

This file contains photographs of the construction of the dry rock storage building in 1953. The two photographs included in this collection depict the trusses of the building during construction.

Photograph of dust collect bays, with unidentified man in background, at Nordenham Finishing Mill in Germany. Part of trip report.

A collection of photographs from the site that Cassiar was being built in the early 50s. Photos depict lumber piles, early camp area, the first buildings, mountains, and the creek.
Along with this collection there are a set of images also from the early Cassiar site mainly depicting a dirt road and various individuals and machinery along it.

A collection of photographs of the early exploration exhibitions in the asbestos mountains area.

Images contain technical engineering drawings from the Asbestos Mining Corp. Drawings are primarily of plant buildings and mining and milling equipment, but also include drafts of town site and utilities, (extensive images of water and sewer pipes and septic systems). Microfiche slides are 4.6cm x 3.5cm mounted on 8.3 x 18.2 cm paper cards with systematic puncture marks, presumed to be an antiquated form of computer memory. Slides are numbered ranging from 1001 to 1549 and a drawing number ranging from 1006 to 8008, generally in the format “2017/02/02”. Microfiche are dated 1950- 1976, several are dated “OLD”, and several are undated. All microfilm reels are annotated “CASSIAR ENGINEERING DRAWINGS”.

Various photographs of equipment that Cassiar was researching to potentially purchase.

One photograph of proposed conveyor, to be used to transport material to the stockpile in 1957. One photograph of DUX Jump Tracker from DUX Machinery Corporation in 1976. Four photographs of George O. Hill Supply ltd. "Hill Belt Cleaner" (a rotary cleaner) in 1985. One photograph of George O. Hill "Poly-Teflon Conveyor Roller" in 1991. Three photographs of an overhead container crane from Kingsway Engineering Corporation in 1978. Two photographs of equipment from Sintra for Underground tunneling machinery in 1985. Two photographs (attributed to Ward&Davidson photography in Montreal) of Denovan machine from Victory Tool & Machine Co. Ltd. Two photographs of minpack system of cable from Mincon Inc. in April 1990. Three photographs of Transwest Dynequip from Por Coquitlam in 1990, with a note stating "To big for our need." Four photos of Euclid Trucks. Four photos of proposed Grader for mine from "Champion." Seven photos of Reed Guncrete equipment for shotcrete in 1989.

This file contains a collection of photographs of Elsa Mine and Venus Mine in the Yukon Territories that were operated by Equipment United Keno Hill, and were subsequently closed after Keno shut down operations in 1989.

It can be assumed that the Cassiar mine was looking at the equipment at Elsa and Venus mine for purchase as the collection depicts various machinery including: shotcrete machine, long hole drill, auger screw, compressed air powered generator, Cat engine, scooptram and slusher from Elsa Mine; and an empty trailer, first aid trailer, compressed air powered tugger, air receivers, cooling system, twist air compressors, and a bit sharpener from Venus Mine.

Handwritten caption beside this photo reads: "Erection of steel framework of Building". Red rectangular equipment stands enclosed in wood frame, which is also being enclosed in the much larger steel frame of the crusher building. Men are working on site, and boom of traveler crane can be seen on right. Other buildings at crusher plant are visible at top of mountain in background.

Subseries consists of photographic material pertaining to early geological exploration and planning of the mine sites, plant sites and town sites of both Cassiar, B.C. and later Clinton Creek, Y.T. This subseries also includes photographic material capturing mining locations not owned by Cassiar Asbestos Corporation for what is believed to be corporate research and development purposes.

File contains portraits and sample photographs of exposed asbestos fibre: in veins of rock outcrops, and loose in talus on McDame Mountain (location of Cassiar mine). Some photographs were printed in Cassiar's Annual Reports, with labels and descriptions.

Photograph of automatic recorder from back angle. Part of trip report to Nordenham Finishing Mill in Germany.

Photograph of automatic recorder from front angle. Part of trip report to Nordenham Finishing Mill.

This file is Cassiar's exploration to obtain a fire engine for the town and mine.

There are two photographs of a Hub Fire Engine. The Fire truck in the photographs is from the Peachland Fire Department, and was taken in West Summerland BC. The photographs were sent to Cassiar from Hub Fire Engines & Equipment Ltd. so show the equipment they would be receiving if they purchased through Hub Fire Engines. There is a price quote of $15,000 in pen on the back of one of the photographs. The other photograph has a handwritten note to Mr. Royds saying: "This is the unit we would supply, except you would only have the one reel, whereas this [photograph] shows two."

The third photograph is from La France Fire Engine & Foamite. The fire truck depicted is from Prince Albert Fire Department and is a B67 8289 model.

Photograph collection of early mill construction. Various annotations note retaining ribs, pouring ribs, pouring retaining walls, the west wall, steel work, transformer house, and furnace pad.