OUTLINE OF THE MINE-MILLING PROCESS
Please refer to Appendix B.

The ore deposit occurs in the form of cross veins
Pope chrysotile asbestos attached to the host rock
serpentine. It is the only asbestos deposit mined

and milled in British Columbia at the present time.

Aols, MINING is carried out by standard open pit

methods involving drilling, blasting, waste

and ore haulage, and ore crushing at the Minesite.
Approximately 6 million tons of waste rock

are being removed during 1977 to obtain just

over l million tons of ore from which will be
produced less than 100,000 tons of asbestos

fibre. After primary crushing the ore is
delivered to the Plantsite by a modern aerial
tramline. Mine waste is deposited in dump

areas adjacent to the open pit.

Upon receipt of the coarsely crushed ore at the
tramline unloading terminal, the ore is conveyed
to the Primary Concentration Plant where further
crushing and waste separation occurs to provide
a beneficiated ore feed to the Drying Circuit.
After rotary drying the ore is conveyed to a

large Dry Rock Storage Building.