Documents in our library name Comet mine at near Marble Bar (near Lionel), Western Australia as an asbestos mine. They report it working in 1963.1,2 Fiber: chrysotile.1 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
Year by year
Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.
1963
- Opened: “A new operation, the Comet Mine, near Marble Bar, Western Australia, which commenced production towards the end of 1963”, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 211
- Opened: “The Comet Mine at Marble Bar, near Lionel, Western Australia, commenced operation late in 1963”, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 242
1964
- Fiber: “provided the increase in chrysotile production”, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 211
References
- Asbestos Magazine, 1965, July 1965 (July 1, 1965), p. 21.
- Asbestos Magazine, 1966, November 1966 (November 1, 1966), p. 24.
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