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Jeffrey Mine (Asbestos, Quebec)

Jeffrey Mine (Asbestos, Quebec), Canada. Closed, open pit, mining asbestos.

Why Jeffrey Mine (Asbestos, Quebec) is famous

Found in 1879 by Evan Williams and mined from 1881. Johns-Manville ran it from the First World War to 1983. The 1949 strike involved about 5,000 miners. Mill capacity exceeded 600 million kg a year.1,2

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  1. 1966Asbestos mining at Wittenoom ends3

Jeffrey Mine (Asbestos, Quebec) today

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An example ofWittenoom (Colonial Mine)Quebec's Jeffrey Mine ran from 1881 to 2012. Wittenoom's asbestos ended in 1966.4

Events

An example ofAsbestos mining at Wittenoom endsAbout 5,000 miners struck at Jeffrey in 1949. Wittenoom mined asbestos from 1933 to 1966.1

Sources

  1. Jeffrey Mine and asbestos The Canadian Encyclopedia
  2. Wikidata entity Q21834551
  3. Mining and Energy Western Australia: Asbestos (exhibition page) State Library of Western Australia
  4. Wittenoom brochure Government of Western Australia

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0; Haul trucks by Lechhabmed, CC BY-SA 4.0.