Keikamspoort, Prieska District, Griqualand, Cape Province

Keikamspoort was a blue asbestos property in the Prieska District, Griqualand, in the Cape: in April 1923 Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, reported that the Cape Asbestos Company, Limited, "has recently completed negotiations for the purchase of the lease" of what it called "an important blue asbestos producing property known as Keikamspoort," close to the company's own properties.¹ The journal said the property, sold by its owner, Meeuwsen, "has hitherto been worked by the Carn Brea Asbestos Syndicate," described as "the principal producers of blue asbestos outside the Cape Asbestos Company."¹

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.

1923

• Ownership: “Mr. Meeuwsen, owner” (Mr. Meeuwsen), p. 44¹
• Ownership: “completed negotiations for the purchase of the lease” (The Cape Asbestos Company, Limited), p. 44¹
• Worked: “hitherto been worked by the Carn Brea Asbestos Syndicate” (Carn Brea Asbestos Syndicate), p. 44¹
• Fiber: “an important blue asbestos producing property”, p. 44¹

See also

• The Cape Asbestos Company, Limited: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• All asbestos mines

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1923, April 1923 (April 1, 1923), p. 44.