Documents in our library name Blue asbestos deposit at Bolivia as an asbestos mine.1 They report it working in 1942.1 Fiber: crocidolite. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.
The documents report small or short-lived production of asbestos fiber for sale.2
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Year by year
Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.
1942
- Worked: “A deposit of blue asbestos has been known for many years in Bolivia and has been worked in a small way at intervals”, p. 111
1943
- Idle: “The Bolivian blue asbestos industry has been almost dormant since the loss of its former markets in Japan”, p. 112
- Buyers: “sales to consumers in Argentina were reported in 1943”, p. 112
References
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1942 (January 1, 1943), p. 11.
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1943 (January 1, 1944), p. 11.
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