Documents in our library name Short-fibre working at near Althorp, about 90 miles east of the Kaapsche Hoop escarpment, Transvaal as an asbestos mine.1 They report it working in 1928.1 Fiber: chrysotile.
The documents report work here (mining, shafts or a mill) but no fiber sold or shipped; that is what our documents say, and the mine may still have sold some.1
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Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.
1928
- Worked: “an occurrence of short fibre for asbestos-cement manufactures is being worked”, p. 71
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1928, May 1928 (May 1, 1928), p. 7.
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