Macquarie Harbor deposit, western shore of Macquarie Harbor, about 18 miles from Strahan, Tasmania

Documents in our library name Macquarie Harbor deposit at western shore of Macquarie Harbor, about 18 miles from Strahan, Tasmania as an asbestos mine. They report it working in 1 year between 1941 and 1942.¹ Fiber: chrysotile. 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

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.

1941

• Output: “A few tons (11) of good quality chrysotile was obtained in 1941-1942 from Asbestos Point, Macquarie Habor”, p. 12¹

1942

• Exploration: “Preliminary prospecting and testing have been conducted over an area of 300 acres”, p. 11²
• Exploration: “A deposit of asbestos--probably chrysotile as it occurs in serpentine rock--has been found on the western shore of Macquarie Harbor about 18 miles from Strahan, Tasmania”, p. 11²

Other names

Documents call this mine “Macquarie Harbor”, “Asbestos Point, Macquarie Habor”.

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1955, July 1955 (July 1, 1955), p. 12.
2. Minerals Yearbook: Asbestos Chapters, 1942 (January 1, 1943), p. 11.