Cassiar is a ghost town in British Columbia, Canada. It was a small company-owned asbestos mining town located in the Cassiar Mountains of Northern British Columbia north of Dease Lake. History The discovery of asbestos in the area in 1950 led to the founding of the Cassiar Asbestos Compan...
Then, most notably, the early 1950s brought the Cassiar Asbestos Mine, which operated from 1953 until 1992 and produced the company town of Cassiar. See also[edit] Cassiar Mountains Stewart...
알래스카 하이웨이 635마일 지점에 있는 마을로 브리티시 컬럼비아(British Columbia) 주 경계와 맞닿아 있는 유콘 준주(Yukon Territory)의 남동쪽에 위치하고 있는 곳으로 약 1500여명의 인구가 거주하고 있는 마을이다.
This was done to allow for asbestos from Cassiar to be shipped to market via sea from Stewart. [6] By the middle of 1972, only a few miles remained to be built between Meziadin Junction and...
It operated by the Cassiar Asbestos Corporation, which also operated the asbestos mine in Cassiar, British Columbia, from 1967 to 1978, when it was closed and all the buildings were...
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Share ; An abandoned asbestos mine in a remote corner of Yukon has yet to be remediated 42 years after closing, and could pose a flood risk to anyone downstream, according to the federal government. “Clinton Creek is literally on the edge of the map,” said Lewis Rifkind, mining analyst for the Yukon Conservation Society. The mine is on the western border of Yukon, about 100 kilometres northwest of Dawson City. “It’s out of sight, out of mind.” · Clinton Creek Mine opened in 1967 and is the only mine on record in the territory to extr ...
Large vintage garment patch and chrysotile ore asbestos sample (approx. 8cm) from Cassiar, British Columbia, Canada. Small piece of ebonized asbestos utilized as base for electrical fuse...
Cassiar extracted 1M tonnes of asbestos ; The company went bankrupt in 1992. In the years when the mine was operating there was no law requiring a reclamation bond. “In those days the word ‘environment’ was only just entering the vocabulary,” Frank Patch, a project manager with the Yukon government’s Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, told Mining News. “Mining companies are now starting to understand that clean-up is part of the cost of doing business.” · The Yukon govern...
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