Dobsina, Slovakia

Documents in our library name Dobsina at Dobsina, Slovakia as an asbestos mine, run by "Asbest" Gewinnung und Verwertung von Asbest Gesellschaft m. b. H. They report it working in 3 years between 1933 and 1935.¹

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

1933

• Output: “1,200 in 1933” ("Asbest" Gewinnung und Verwertung von Asbest Gesellschaft m. b. H.), as reported by U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Foreign Metals and Minerals: Circ. 3, April 1936, p. 7¹

1934

• Output: “2,100 in 1934” ("Asbest" Gewinnung und Verwertung von Asbest Gesellschaft m. b. H.), as reported by U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Foreign Metals and Minerals: Circ. 3, April 1936, p. 7¹

1935

• Output: “reports an output of 2,600 metric tons in 1935” ("Asbest" Gewinnung und Verwertung von Asbest Gesellschaft m. b. H.), as reported by U.S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Foreign Metals and Minerals: Circ. 3, April 1936, p. 7¹

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1936 (January 1, 1937), p. 7.