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Elements of the underground mine are depicted, including miners working, the marked rock face, yellow ducting and ventilation fan, the portal, mesh rockbolted onto adit walls, shotcrete being applied, and stacked mining construction materials.
Mining equipment depicted in this file includes underground ore haulage truck, Wabco ore haulage truck, jackleg drill, stoper drill, scoop tram, jumbo drill, conveyor, pickup trucks, unidentified mixing or grinding machine, a cable wagon and half constructed ore haulage truck in the shop, and a continuous miner (also known as alpine miner or roadheader).
A set of images show a dozer and a lowbed truck transporting a temporary building down the pit mine access road.
Several images depict drill core fragments, asbestos ore, and geological features of the mine.
Mining related process are depicted, including a young man sluicing and panning, a mine building under construction, and an unidentified steel frame structure with a hydraulic device suspended on a rail.
A set of images shows a railway or highway construction project, including stockpile of construction materials, rail cars, caboose, locomotive, front end loader, dump truck, concrete mixing trucks, semi-trucks, and a rail car with large steel drums which are speculated to be specialized for tunnel construction.
Further images show what is speculated to be tunnel construction.
A set of images at a high ceiling underground mine which is not Cassiar depicts a man in a suite by a underground ore haulage truck, and other mining vehicles including a crane.
A set of images depict an ungulate herd, possibly bighorn sheep, on a mountain side.
The file includes several images which depict personal life, presumably from a family vacation, and access to these images may be restricted. These images depict man with children on a fishing trip, adults and children around a pool, a woman on a motorcycle, and a house and kitchen. Several groups of images are contained in envelopes annotated with dates and “K. Minty”.

Mine (1952 to 1972)

2000.1.1.3.15 · Dossier · 1953 - 1970

Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Mine (1973 to 1991)

2000.1.1.3.16 · Dossier · 1973-1991

Fait partie de Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

File contains photographs featuring:

the pit mine: fault line, geology, snowdrifts, plowed snow, blast patterns marked by orange cones, mist, and surrounding mountains.
Pit mine is depicted by aerial photographs and a profile diagram.
Several photographs also depict what is speculated to be the portal to the underground mine adit in the early phases of development.
One photograph depicts the shop building in the pit mine, used for maintenance of mining equipment and to house the primary crusher.
Several photographs show office interiors and personnel and it is speculated that these photographs were taken in the upper floor of the shop building.
Several photographs depict small sinkholes in the pit mine.
Mining equipment depicted includes pickup trucks, front end loaders (including a Cat 988), ore haulage trucks, scoop trams, D8 Caterpillar dozer, grader, mining drill rig, jumbo drill, rock hammer, P&H excavator, and wireline extensometer. Photolab envelopes accompanying these materials were annotated “R. Tyne” and “falling ground”. Slide sleeves were annotated “Mine Nov-Dec 1975”, “AERIAL SHOTS OF MINE 1976” and “Phase 8 Dec 1975”.
Photographs of a Gardner Denver blasting drill at the mine and other ground drills working
Photograph of proposed power line to #1 switchback in 1975,
Collection of photographs of a Wsbco truck with corresponding mechanical transfers of those photographs.
Also photographs a Gardner Denver drill and a Bucyrus Erie drill that was rented to Cassiar Mine in 1974. This collection includes a depiction of an accident with these drills.
An additional collection of photographs of #709 Drill that was involved in minor accident. A pipe was either damaged or was the cause of the accident.
Negative collection of photographs with corresponding notes of descriptions.
Photographs of G.D. 80 Drill - Blasthole drill at work in the open pit.
Photographs part of Month End Reports from January - June 1980
Photographs of portable toilets used on Mine site.
Photograph collection of mine garage January 21, 1988
Photograph collection of what is believed to be the inside of the mine garage and various storage units and equipment. Marked "Receiver File" in original enclosure.
Photos of Crane in 1984.
An Album of 192 photographs of machinery in March of 1976 working at the mine site. Some of the equipment from either the plantsite or the mill is also depicted.