Asbestos deposits, Cuddapah area, Andhra Pradesh (printed "Andra Pradesh")

In 1975 the Andhra Pradesh Mining Corporation sought help from the United Nations Development Program "to achieve optimum fiber recovery and improve the processing of asbestos at Pulivendia, Cuddapah District," Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported, citing the Hindu of Madras; its managing director, M. L. Malakondayya, said its production of chrysotile asbestos "registered a 101% increase over that of the previous fiscal year."¹ In December the trade journal wrote that a new asbestos processing facility "is likely to come on stream" and that construction "was reportedly to have begun by the end of this year."² The U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1975 said the facility "was scheduled to be under construction by late 1975," at a site in the Cuddapah area "where there was estimated to be reserves of 27,000 tons."³

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

Location

Year by year

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

1975

• Output: “production of Chrysotile asbestos ... registered a 101% increase over that of the previous fiscal year” (Andhra Pradesh Mining Corporation), as reported by Hindu (Madras), p. 32¹
• Mill: “improving the processing of asbestos at Pulivendia in the Cuddapah area. A new asbestos processing facility is likely to come on stream” (Andhra Pradesh Mining Corporation), p. 50²
• Reserves: “estimated to be reserves of 27,000 tons”, p. 10³
• Mill: “a new asbestos processing facility was scheduled to be under construction by late 1975”, p. 10³

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1975, July 1975 (July 1, 1975), p. 32.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1975, December 1975 (December 1, 1975), p. 50.
3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1975 (January 1, 1976), p. 10.