Kliphuis mine, Prieska District, Cape Province

Documents in our library name Kliphuis mine at Prieska District, Cape Province as an asbestos mine, run by G. Heller Co., Limited, The Cape Asbestos Company.¹ They report it working in 1924.¹ Fiber: crocidolite.

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.

1924

• Ownership: “The Cape Asbestos Company, so it is reported, recently purchased” (The Cape Asbestos Company), p. 48¹
• Output: “about 300 tons of asbestos per year for some years past”, p. 48¹
• Ownership: “originally owned by G. Heller Co., Limited” (G. Heller Co., Limited), p. 48¹

See also

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

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1924, August 1924 (August 1, 1924), p. 48.