Documents in our library name Hawker at Hawker, about 250 miles north of Adelaide, South Australia as an asbestos mine.1 They report it working in 1933.1 Fiber: crocidolite. Where the documents differ, each is shown below with its source.
The documents report small or short-lived production of 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.
1933
- Worked: “limited quantities have been produced at Hawker about 250 miles north of Adelaide”, p. 81
1937
- Description: “commercial deposits of blue asbestos have heretofore been confined to the Union of South Africa and to a small occurrence near Hawker, South Australia”, p. 82
References
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1934 (January 1, 1935), p. 8.
- Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1938 (January 1, 1939), p. 8.
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