Slade-Forbes Mine, Deloro Township, Timmins, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canadai

Regional Level Types
Slade-Forbes Mine	Mine
Deloro Township	Township
Timmins	City
Cochrane District	District
Ontario	Province
Canada	Country

Asbestos

From Asbestos in Ontario, 1953, p. 12-13

Slade-Forbes Mine

The Slade-Forbes property is located in southeastern Deloro township, district of Cochrane, and consists of one claim, number P. 6886. The Slade-Forbes Asbestos Company produced 10 tons of asbestos valued at $2,150 from an open pit on this claim in 1917.

In August, 1943, the property was optioned to Canadian Johns-Manville Company, Limited, for a 12-month period. A test shipment of 1,500 pounds of ore and 500 pounds of hand-cobbed fibre was shipped to the company laboratory for testing. The option was dropped.

From January, 1948, to October, 1949, the Bell Asbestos Company held the property under option and tested a small shipment of material from the open pit. The option was dropped.

Teegana Mines, Limited, optioned the property in October, 1949. Five neighbouring claims were also optioned. A limited amount of work was done on the property and, in 1951, a shipment of 38 tons of fibre valued at $6,300 was reported. In the fall of 1951 the property was optioned to Van Packer Mines of Canada, Limited. Detailed geological and geophysical mapping of the deposit was carried out, and 1,000 feet of diamond-drilling was done in 1951.

Chrysotile asbestos occurs in cross-fibre veinlets in granular, serpentinized dunite of apple-green colour. An open pit, 40 feet square and 10-15 feet deep, was sunk on the main showing by the Slade-Forbes Asbestos Company.

Fibre occurs on the outcrops, in the neighbourhood of the pit, and in the pit itself. The veinlets are up to 2 inches wide and are rather harsh; considerable talc-carbonate alteration is present. Fibre is also present in a second showing, 350 feet southeast of the pit. A dike of fine-grained, grey granite, 100 feet wide, striking N. 80 0 E., cuts the serpentinized peridotite south of the open pit.

In the open pit, a fault is exposed striking east-west and dipping 75 0 N. One set of fractures, carrying fibre, parallels this fault; another set strikes N.100 E. and also carries fibre. In the open pit the fibre appears to make up approximately 5 percent of the rock and is exposed over an area about 50 feet in diameter.

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