Consolidated Asbestos mine, Pietersburg District, Transvaal

In August 1930 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, printed an item on South African Consolidated Asbestos Limited that names no mine or place; it is matched to this mine by the company's name only.² The item described "a large Electric Power Station" and arc lamps "for night work," and reported that, owing to a delay in contracts for the sale of the company's fibre, which the directors called Amosite, "they have decided to suspend operations for the time being."² The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1958, citing the Engineering and Mining Journal, said two asbestos mines "were reported to have been opened in the Pietersburg District of Northern Transvaal," one by Consolidated Asbestos.¹

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.²

Location

Year by year

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

1930

• Fiber: “Amosite” (South African Consolidated Asbestos Limited), said by South African Consolidated Asbestos Limited, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 57²
• Description: “Large electric power station built; arc lamps for night work” (South African Consolidated Asbestos Limited), p. 57²
• Idle: “South African Consolidated Asbestos Limited decided to suspend operations for the time being” (South African Consolidated Asbestos Limited), said by South African Consolidated Asbestos Limited, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 57²

1958

• Opened: “Two asbestos mines were reported to have been opened in the Pietersburg District ... by Consolidated Asbestos” (Consolidated Asbestos), as reported by Engineering and Mining Journal, p. 10¹

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1958 (January 1, 1959), p. 10.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1930, August 1930 (August 1, 1930), p. 57.