Bosansko Petrovo Selo mine, Bosnia-Hercegovina

Documents in our library name Bosansko Petrovo Selo mine at Bosansko Petrovo Selo, Bosnia-Hercegovina as an asbestos mine. They report it working in 2 years between 1978 and 1979.^1,2 Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.¹

Location

Output the documents report

Figures as printed, in the units each document uses (short tons before about 1990, metric tons after, in most U.S. chapters). Some are a year's output, some a daily rate or a capacity, some a company's total rather than this mine's alone; the statement for that year below says which.

Year by year

Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.

1978

• Output: “raised its fiber output from 5,000 to 26,000 tons per year”, p. 13¹
• Mill: “the investment of about Din300 million in new facilities”, p. 13¹

1979

• Mill: “Annual output of ore is to be increased from 150,000 to 660,000 tonnes and fiber production is to be raised from 5000 to 26,000 tonnes per annum”, p. 47²

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1978–79 (January 1, 1980), p. 13.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1979, December 1979 (December 1, 1979), p. 47.