Experimental crocidolite mine, near Cochabamba, Bolivia

Documents in our library name Experimental crocidolite mine at near Cochabamba, Bolivia as an asbestos mine, run by Bolivian Minag Ltda. They report it working in 2 years between 1975 and 1976.^1,2 Fiber: crocidolite. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.

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

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.

1975

• Opened: “An experimental Crocidolite mine near Cochabamba has recently become operational at the pilot plant level”, p. 45¹

1976

• Output: “a semi-mechanized project was begun at Cochabamba in 1975; Production projections are 2000 tons in 1976 and 10,000 tons by 1978” (Bolivian Minag Ltda.), p. 42²

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1975, December 1975 (December 1, 1975), p. 45.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1976, December 1976 (December 1, 1976), p. 42.