Malips Drift (McBean's) mine, near Malips River, Transvaal

The Malips Drift mine, also called McBean's Mine, lay near the Malips River in the Transvaal, South Africa.¹ A government inspector's report printed in Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, in 1922 said the mine of Malips Drift Asbestos Mines Limited "continues in a small way" and that it produced amosite.¹ In January 1928 the journal wrote that the property "was established over fifteen years ago" and had kept "a fairly steady and consistent tho small output," and that it "has been purchased by the Cape Asbestos Company, London," which would now control "the Penge mine, the Amosa mine and the Malips mine."² A 1945 Cape Asbestos account named the Malips among its four mines, "some 25 miles away to the northwest" of Penge, each with "its own milling and housing facilities."³ In 1958 and 1959 the Cape company described the mine at Malips Drift as a blue asbestos mine run by its subsidiary Cape Blue Mines (Pty) Ltd.^4,5

The documents report this mine producing asbestos fiber for sale.²

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Year by year

Every statement about this mine in the documents, in each document's own words, by the year it is about.

1913

• Opened: “established over fifteen years ago” (Malips Drift Asbestos Mines Limited), p. 45²

1922

• Worked: “McBean's Mine (Malips Drift Asbestos Mines Limited) near Malips River continues in a small way” (Malips Drift Asbestos Mines Limited), as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 34¹
• Fiber: “Both these mines produced Amosite”, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 34¹

1927

• Ownership: “has been purchased by the Cape Asbestos Company, London” (Cape Asbestos Company), p. 45²

1928

• Ownership: “The Cape Asbestos Company Limited will therefore now own or control” (Cape Asbestos Company Limited), p. 45²

1945

• Worked: “Along this outcrop the Company has four mines” (Egnep, Limited), said by Cape Asbestos Company, Limited, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 8³
• Mill: “Each has its own milling and housing facilities” (Egnep, Limited), said by Cape Asbestos Company, Limited, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 8³

1958

• Worked: “at Malips Drift in the Transvaal” (Cape Blue Mines (Pty) Ltd.), said by The Cape Asbestos Company Ltd., as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 46⁴

1959

• Worked: “Cape Blue Mines (Pty) Ltd. operate ... the one at Malips Drift in the Transvaal” (The Cape Asbestos Company Limited), said by The Cape Asbestos Company Limited, as reported by Asbestos (magazine), p. 4⁵

In medical studies

Medical studies in our research library that name this mine, by how they concern it. A search found every one that names the mine and an AI reader sorted them; the quotation, checked word for word against the text, shows where. Those that name the mine only in passing or in a reference list are left out.

Studies of the mine’s fiber (1)

• Holmes A 1971: Determination of iron, chromium, cobalt, nickel, and scandium in asbestos by neutron activation analysis: “Penge 20 1.8 20 0.8 0.6 Malipsdrift 24 1.7 <20 0.6 0.3 Malips Rock”

Other names

Documents call this mine “McBean's Mine”, “Malips mine”, “Malips Drift Asbestos Mines Limited”, “Malips Drift”, “Malips”.

See also

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

References

1. Asbestos Magazine, 1922, December 1922 (December 1, 1922), p. 34.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1928, January 1928 (January 1, 1928), p. 45.
3. Asbestos Magazine, 1945, August 1945 (August 1, 1945), p. 8.
4. Asbestos Magazine, 1958, December 1958 (December 1, 1958), p. 46.
5. Asbestos Magazine, 1959, June 1959 (June 1, 1959), p. 4.