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Title: The Mining industry in Quebec
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Québec (Province). Dept. of Natural Resources Québec (Province). Dept. of Colonization and Mines. Mining industry of the Province of Québec Québec (Province). Dept. of Colonization and Mines. Report on the mining operations of the Province of Québec Québec (Province). Dept. of Mines. Report of the Minister of Mines of the Province of Québec
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: Québec
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ted during the night by eight nitrogenlamps of 1000 watts each. The great advantage of these over thearc-lights is that the light is quite steady. Moreover, they usemuch less current for the same amount of light. At the Jacobs mine preparations are actively pushed to com-mence a system of underground workings, on the principle of theGlory hole method, and hoisting by shaft. The shaft at the endof the year was down 515 feet, and a main level of 1400 feet had beendriven on the south west part of the pit. From this level a series ofcrosscuts branch out, and from these cross-cuts inclined raiseswere being driven to the surface. A large crushing and drying plant is being erected. Pendingthe completion of these alterations, work is carried on by theold methods of open pit and cable-derricks. It is expected thatthe new method will be put in operation in the spring of 1918. The Bennett-Martin Asbestos and Chrome Mines, Limited,have proceeded with the development of their property, lots 24 and
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Asbestos Corporation of Canada.—Ast> to* Mill at the Fraser Mine, lot 14, range VII, Township of Broughton, Que. 11 £ ^ ^ a^jp-*** < ■r * \ * 13 bee Asbestos and Chrome < view of th< Mine, I 1 mil township. THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC 15 25, range III of Ireland. The results have been very satisfactory andthey have shipped an appreciable quantity of crude. All the rockhas been set aside awaiting the completion of the mill which is beingbuilt. In the East Broughton field, the Quebec Asbestos Corporation,a company which took over the property of the Ling AsbestosCompany, after extensive alterations in the mill and in the mine,began producing in May, 1917. The cable derricks have been dis-carded and the rock is handled in the pit by steam-shovels and carswhich convey it to crushers put up in the pit bottom. Thecrushed rock is then brought to the surface by elevators and droppedon a conveyor belt which discharges into the dryer-bins. The Asbestos Corpominingindustryin1917qu

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