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2000.1.1.1.25 · File · 25 Oct. 1977
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Kaiser Resources and Fording Coal near Sparwood, British Columbia. This collection depicts equipment in the field such as a backhoe, shovel loader, trucks, mobile service trailer for shovel maintenance, dragline bucket and exploration tank drill. there are also landscape photographs of the mine area.

Trip Report to Vancouver
2000.1.1.1.26 · File · 12 Jun. [between 1977 - 1980]
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photographs from Cassiar trip to Whitewood and highvale Mines. This collection includes photographs of Rapier Dragline depositing spoil, Erie Dragline, Dragline bucket size, Marion Dragline, coal removal with Bucyrus-Erie coal shovel, Euclid coal hauler, Caterpillar loader removing coal, Euclid hauling coal seam, Highwall and spoil pile, angle of spoil pile, landscape of reclamation mined land, beginning of vegetation, utilization of reclaimed land, water druck and road between spoil piles.

2000.1.1.1.23 · File · 6 - 9 Nov. 1978
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Similkameen Mine in British Columbia. This collection of photographs depicts road conditions of mine pit, bench maintenance, landscape of pit, cable equipment, and machinery such as drills and graders.

Trip Report to Brenda Mines
2000.1.1.1.22 · File · 6 - 9 Nov. 1978
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Brenda Mines in British Columbia. These photographs depict pit design, landscape of field and pit, cable stations, mine rescue truck, and equipment such as graders, trucks, drills and cats.

Trip Report to Afton Mines
2000.1.1.1.21 · File · 6 - 9 Nov. 1978
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photographs from Cassiar trip report to Afton Mines in British Columbia. This collection of photographs depicts the road maintenance by cat. and grader, the bench heights, levels, scaling, holes and maintenance, and equipment used such as drills, buckets, trucks, crusher for pit maintenance of walls, slopes and angles.

2000.1.1.1.33 · File · Jun. 1978
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

This collection of photograph is a Cassiar trip report to Weldotron Inc. Industrial Packaging Systems in Piscataway, New Jersey to look at the shrink wrap system. The ten photographs depict the wrap applicator, bag maker placer, feed side of wrap applicator, shroud wrap machine, and before and after packaged asbestos. One photograph is of the Kellogg Plant in Michigan depicting forklifts. There is also a commercial photograph of the "Weldotron Pallet Pak Shrouder & Shrink Tunnel for shrink wrapping pallet loads."

Tramline Study
2000.1.1.3.17.010 · Item · 7 Jun. 1976
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

This photograph is part of tramline study of bucket loads. It depicts the tramline station at the top of the mountain and terrain it runs above.

Tramline from Mountain
2000.1.1.3.17.006 · Item · 1962
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts towers and bucket in foreground, plantsite midground in valley, opposite mountains in background. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "GENERAL VIEW VISIBLE TOWERS ARE IN #1 SECTION PLANT IN BACKGROUND". Photograph was glued to cardboard backing with the annotation: "1962".

Tramline from Mine Road
2000.1.1.3.17.008 · Item · 1962
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

Photograph depicts towers and buckets in distance. Gravel road in foreground winding through hills of dirt. Handwritten annotation on recto of photograph: "#1 SECTION". Photograph was glued to cardboard backing with the annotation: "1962".

Tramline
2000.1.1.3.17 · File · [ca. 1955] - 1977
Part of Cassiar Asbestos Corporation Ltd. fonds

File contains photographs featuring the tramline at Cassiar which ran from the crushing plant at the mountain mine to the plantsite in the valley (a drop of 427 meters). The first ore was originally transported by truck to the plant until the gravity chute was built in 1953. This chute was replaced with the first aerial tramline model in 1956, which was succeeded by the second model in 1975. This file also includes one photo of the original gravity chute, and one photo depicting a tramline worker.

Additionally there is a collection of eighteen photographs of tramline cars that were being surveyed for damage and condition, and another collection of six photographs of tramline study. The results of this study determined that there was variances in load sizes of the buckets caused by extra material falling off the panfeeder.