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Cape Asbestos Co. blue asbestos mines, Prieska; Hay district, Cape Province

Documents in our library name Cape Asbestos Co. blue asbestos mines at Prieska; Hay district, Cape Province as an asbestos mine, run by Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd.1,2 They report it working in 2 years between 1933 and 1944.1,2 Fiber: crocidolite. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.

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

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Location

Prieska; Hay district, Cape Province, the town named in the documents. The dot marks the town, not the mine itself.

Year by year

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

1933

  • Mill: “Cleaning, grading and sifting plant for the Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd., at Prieska completed in 1933” (Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd.), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 261
  • Worked: “Around Prieska the Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd., continued production on a reduced scale right through” (Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd.), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 261

1944

  • Worked: “Sinclair employed on the production of crocidolite for the Cape Asbestos Co. Ltd. as manager of their mines in the Prieska and Hay districts” (Cape Asbestos Co. Ltd.), p. 52

See also

References

  1. Asbestos Magazine, 1933, July 1933 (July 1, 1933), p. 26.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1944, August 1944 (August 1, 1944), p. 5.

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