Lanninhurst Asbestos, Ltd., West Nicholson, Zimbabwe

The Lanninhurst mine was in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, and the U.S. Bureau of Mines' Minerals Yearbook for 1953 is the earliest source to mention it: "new equipment for processing fiber has been introduced also at the Lanninhurst mine."¹ The same report said that operation late in 1953 "had not passed the pilot-plant stage, but erection of a full-scale plant is in prospect."¹ A table of producing mines in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, in June 1956 gave Lanninghurst Asbestos's Lanninghurst mine, in the Gwanda district, an average monthly production of 35 short tons.² The yearbook, drawing on Mineral Trade Notes, named Lanninhurst Asbestos, Ltd., of West Nicholson as one of only six companies that produced spinning grades in 1959, though that page does not name the company's mine.³

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.³

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.

1953

• Mill: “New equipment for processing fiber has been introduced also at the Lanninhurst mine in Southern Rhodesia”, p. 7¹
• Mill: “Operation late in 1953 had not passed the pilot-plant stage, but erection of a full-scale plant is in prospect”, p. 7¹

1955

• Output: “Lanninghurst Asbestos | Lanninghurst | 35” (Lanninghurst Asbestos), p. 10²

1959

• Output: “Lanninhurst Asbestos, Ltd., West Nicholson ... produced spinning grades” (Lanninhurst Asbestos, Ltd.), as reported by Mineral Trade Notes, p. 9³

Other names

Documents call this mine “Lanninhurst Asbestos, Ltd.”, “Lanninghurst”, “Lanninhurst mine”.

References

1. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1953 (January 1, 1954), p. 7.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1956, June 1956 (June 1, 1956), p. 10.
3. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1960 (January 1, 1961), p. 9.