ASBESTOS MINERS VOTE ‘YES’ TO CAD15 MILLION OFFER
October 1st, 2010
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
A COOPERATIVE of 450 current and former workers at the Jeffrey Mine, Québec, Canada, voted Monday to approve an offer made by an international consortium of financiers and construction material manufacturers to invest in expanding its underground asbestos mining operations. It has promised to invest a minimum Canadian dollar CAD15 million (US dollar USD14.7 million) into the mine at a town called Asbestos.
The vote by Coopérative des travailleurs miniers de Mine Jeffrey - which owns 35% of the mine - was a critical step in approving the offer ...
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